"Where commercial software is developed by people under deadlines who have to care more about their evaluations than about the quality of the final product, open source software is developed by people for the love of it, for their own use, and as an advertisement for their skills. It just doesn't add up that Apple, or even Microsoft, could be better than an essentially infinite pool of dedicated and skilled developers with infinite amounts of time and no concerns about budgets or keeping business partners happy."
Because according to Slashdot, a million monkeys with typewriters is better than one Shakespeare.
You just gotta love/. "Google's planning on shipping the phone in the latter half of this year, even though they haven't yet decided on what the hardware platform is, what OS it will be running, who their cell network partners will be, or any of the manufacturing details!"
Also, in other news, I will be giving free ponies to everyone who visits my website. Free flying ponies.
How dare those jackbooted thugs be making life inconvenient for those who want to upload and download copyrighted materials without paying for them! We've got to take a stand here and nip this fascism in the bud. First it's keeping me from watching The Transformers or playing Lego Star Wars for free, and then the next step will be to set up the gas chambers! THIS AGGRESSION MUST NOT STAND.
I'm not going to argue with you about quality, but am I the only person in the world who thinks that it's better to not have a physical disk? I hate the amount of space I have to spend on DVD case storage.
(I know, I know, you still end up having to have a disk somewhere for backups. I'm just sayin')
Riiiight. Because everyone knows that the most important thing is that code be small and efficient, and not, say, maintainable and easy to debug. Everyone knows that modern code is never buggy, so it can't possibly hurt to write it in machine language.
Also, modern code never need to be ported, so yeah! 6502 Assembly Language for everyone!
I didn't think the first Harry Potter movies were terribly good. But they were still better than whatever wandering, unfocused, and over-budget by several hundred million dollars monstrosity Gilliam would have unleashed upon the world.
Gilliam is an extremely creative person. He'd be a great production designer.
Yeah, man! Right on! If only Congress wasn't extending copyright to infinite durations to protect Disney, it would be just fine to copy and distribute new TV shows that were produced just this year!
That quip was spoken like someone who never built a multi-architecture binary under NeXTSTEP.
The idea that the only thing standing in the way of producing and distributing a production quality application on multiple architectures is a build system or development environment is nothing short of idiocy.
The idea that a thorough quality assurance cycle for such a project could be done in a week is nothing short of madness.
Tools -- even good tools -- are not an adequate substitute for process.
"If architects built buildings the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
NeXT solved the multi-architecture binary problem many years ago. If Apple ever offered the OS on x86 again, you can bet that every software vendor would recompile their apps and have them available within a month. Most of them could do it in a week.
Spoken like someone who has never had to actually deliver a production-quality software product in their life.
Why run Linux on a Mac? I find that Linux has less to distract me from work.
Yeah, by running Linux on the mac mini, you get to completely avoid the unnecessary distractions of audio, bluetooth, wireless networking, or modems. Plus the screen driver's flickering will keep you from being distracted by smooth, high-quality graphics, and the annoying, error-prone install procedure will prevent you from getting distracted by having software that works, or being distracted by a GUI that doesn't suck.
I think there's a strong argument that doing assembly and testing of your own hardware simply costs more (when you factor in man-hours) and simply leaves you with a less reliable product, with no recourse when things go bad.
I've talked about this in detail before, at least in terms of building gaming PCs, but I believe the same arguments apply to professionally-targeted server hardware.
Of course there are people who will disagree with me because "building your own server is fun." But fun isn't why businesses deploy machines, generally.
If the people who built X designed a car, you'd have to start the engine by turning a crank, and accelerate by dangling more food to the hamster running in the flywheel attached to the driveshaft.
Adapting to stupid, broken, and braindead things -- such as the X cut and paste lossage -- is itself stupid. Here's a nickel, kid. Go buy yourself a real window manager and toolkit.
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It's a shame that they didn't leak the keys for a game that someone actually wants to play.
It is? I managed to save quite a bit of money (a few hundred) building my own computer rather than buying a pre-built one with nearly the same specs.
From this we can infer that your hourly billable rate is vanishingly small. Sorry to hear it, man. Good luck finding better work.
My heart overflows for this poor oppressed Botnet operator.
It's fairly common to chamber a round when you are carrying, especially concealed
...and especially, it should be noted, when you're an idiot.
How much does it cost to upgrade the XPS M1330 to have a unibody chassis that doesn't flex when I pick it up with one hand?
I would have trouble thinking of a worse book to teach someone C than K&R.
It's a useful reference, and a lousy teaching tool.
Because according to Slashdot, a million monkeys with typewriters is better than one Shakespeare.
It is being shipped to your house right now, on the same boat that is delivering the gPhone.
You just gotta love /. "Google's planning on shipping the phone in the latter half of this year, even though they haven't yet decided on what the hardware platform is, what OS it will be running, who their cell network partners will be, or any of the manufacturing details!"
Also, in other news, I will be giving free ponies to everyone who visits my website. Free flying ponies.
How dare those jackbooted thugs be making life inconvenient for those who want to upload and download copyrighted materials without paying for them! We've got to take a stand here and nip this fascism in the bud. First it's keeping me from watching The Transformers or playing Lego Star Wars for free, and then the next step will be to set up the gas chambers! THIS AGGRESSION MUST NOT STAND.
I'm not going to argue with you about quality, but am I the only person in the world who thinks that it's better to not have a physical disk? I hate the amount of space I have to spend on DVD case storage.
(I know, I know, you still end up having to have a disk somewhere for backups. I'm just sayin')
"wretched".
Well, sure, this could be an issue. But let's be honest:
Your work isn't that good.
Right, your insightful analysis correctly assumes that my time, just like yours, isn't worth anything.
Oh, wait.
It's gonna be so cool when I can use gnu ls and type ls --download-source-tarball. Yeah!
Riiiight. Because everyone knows that the most important thing is that code be small and efficient, and not, say, maintainable and easy to debug. Everyone knows that modern code is never buggy, so it can't possibly hurt to write it in machine language.
Also, modern code never need to be ported, so yeah! 6502 Assembly Language for everyone!
Gilliam is an extremely creative person. He'd be a great production designer.
But he's a terrible director.
Yeah, man! Right on! If only Congress wasn't extending copyright to infinite durations to protect Disney, it would be just fine to copy and distribute new TV shows that were produced just this year!
Oh, uh, wait. Hmmmmmm.
Apropos to this review, I feel like I should mention that I wrote a stupid little Javascript program to automatically generate "Jade Empire" style names. So if you've been jealous of guys named "Sagacious Zu," now is your chance to get even.
The idea that a thorough quality assurance cycle for such a project could be done in a week is nothing short of madness.
Tools -- even good tools -- are not an adequate substitute for process.
"If architects built buildings the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
Yeah, boy, what an incredible win.
The downside is that then you're running X11. And X11 sucks
I think there's a strong argument that doing assembly and testing of your own hardware simply costs more (when you factor in man-hours) and simply leaves you with a less reliable product, with no recourse when things go bad. I've talked about this in detail before, at least in terms of building gaming PCs, but I believe the same arguments apply to professionally-targeted server hardware. Of course there are people who will disagree with me because "building your own server is fun." But fun isn't why businesses deploy machines, generally.
If the people who built X designed a car, you'd have to start the engine by turning a crank, and accelerate by dangling more food to the hamster running in the flywheel attached to the driveshaft.
Adapting to stupid, broken, and braindead things -- such as the X cut and paste lossage -- is itself stupid. Here's a nickel, kid. Go buy yourself a real window manager and toolkit.