Software Freedom (in the FSF sense) has always been anti-capitalist. It's central tenet is sharing. The central tenet of capitalism is not sharing. Now you can like that or you can dislike it (and I couldn't care less), but don't pretend this is something new.
Now, what are the components part of Office: Word, does exactly what it say on the tin; Excel, hmmm, not getting much from this, but I guess it'll make be better at something; Powerpoint -- that's to do with home electrical circuits, right. Outlook -- Weather forecasting?; Access -- I'd guess that's a password manager...
The same thing that's their incentive to maintain all the other things local government provides: did the municiapal fire department become lazy because they've driven the private fire brigades of the 19th century out of business? Contrary to what they seem to teach in US schools, the profit motive is not the sole force for good in the known universe.
In the early Seventies there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic
I love this quote.. Simple arithmetic tells us that between 1970 and 1975, somewhere in the region of 2,500 FANTASTIC ALBUMS were released. Now, I love 70s rock, from Lynyrd Skynryd and ELO to Kraftwerk and Patti Smith, and I've been a record collector for twenty odd years (vinyl baby, vinyl -- anyone have a spare B&O MMC5 stylus?) and I can't even begin to list 2,500 albums from that period, let alone 2,500 FANTASTIC ALBUMs.
Elton John is a fucking idiot. All that cocaine has destroyed his critical faculties.
Oh, and "Captain and the Kid" sold poorly because it, like almost everything else Elton's done since 1977, was complete tosh.
This is news? Handy rule of thumb: If you're three days behind the Daily Show in covering a news item, you've probably lost the right to describe that story as "news".
Yeah. All those GNU guys managed to complete were a compiler that supports 20-odd languages, a shell, the full set of portable, POSIX-compatible UNIX tools (sed, awk etc), a cross-platform plotter, a PostScript interpreter, a chess engine, a complete system for internationalisation, a C library... oh, and about 5,000 other applications and tools.
And they only wrote those since they were all needed to compile Emacs.
We already have a perfectly good phrase that means "raises the question". It's "Raises the question". If you co-opt "begs the question" to mean the same thing, your ignorance robs the rest of us of the only succinct way of saying "contains a hidden supposition which is contains the supposed conclusion."
Corn syrup, or fructose used instead of sugar means that for most people, they are under fed as far as their body is concerned and telling them. This is why it is an issue.
Which would be fine if we were talking about chimpanzees. But these are human beings, and they shouldn't need a metabolic trigger to tell them that when they've eaten enough fries to choke a horse, it's probably time to stop.
Blaming fructose-inhibited insulin from failing to protect people from their own chronic overeating is a cop out of the first order. If people didn't spend every waking hour stuffing their faces with lard, they wouldn't need insulin to be functioning at its most efficent levels.
Sure, I've seen it a million times. But that doesn't mean its the best. It's certainly elegant if there are 3 or 4 or 5 criteria. But 20 or 30?
I'll take the goto, seriously. I'd certainly recommend using them sparingly, and never, ever use them to jump backwards. In well structured code, there's no more cost in maintaining an occasional label than checking all those braces match where you think they do.
In a subroutine would you really prefer if(criterion1){
do_something; } else if(criterion2) {
do_something_else(); } else if(criterion3) {
etc... } return;
To an experienced programmer they're the same. To an inexperienced/non-programmer, the latter is evidently clearer. Understanding the former code requires the knowledge that the second else only get checked if both the first two if()s are false. That's fairly basic, but it's not clear without that little extra knowledge.
shorter perhaps. I don't see why it would be less bug prone. And I do think the structure is less easy to parse, and less accurately reflects the logic and structure of the algorithm. I know flow charts are deeply unfashionable, but sometimes they capture exactly what you mean.
See also "Structured programming with go to statements" by Don Knuth. He makes many of the same points that you do. IMGO goto's are the only sensible solution to a switch based on many ordered criteria. Say: if(criterion1||criterion3){
do_something();
goto end_of_cases; }
Wow, that is hard. He doesn't even specify the domain of the multi-function arc-tangent. I don't suppose the Captcha accepted the answer "That depends on which Riemann sheet you're on"
"Do you really think its going to stay that way? Now that massively cheaper, functional mp3-playing alternatives are available in every supermarket?"
was in reply to:
Because the iPod is over 78% of the DAP market thats why.
A statement clearly about MARKET SHARE. Apple won't have market share of 78% forever, just like Sony didn't have 78% of the portable cassette player forever.
You fail reading comprehension 101. I don't waste my time debating people who can't read.
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Software Freedom (in the FSF sense) has always been anti-capitalist. It's central tenet is sharing. The central tenet of capitalism is not sharing. Now you can like that or you can dislike it (and I couldn't care less), but don't pretend this is something new.
Yeah. Office = good name.
Now, what are the components part of Office: Word, does exactly what it say on the tin; Excel, hmmm, not getting much from this, but I guess it'll make be better at something; Powerpoint -- that's to do with home electrical circuits, right. Outlook -- Weather forecasting?; Access -- I'd guess that's a password manager...
Sorry, what was you point again?
Goddamn activist legislators preventing ordinary Americans being price gouged by ISPs.
Don't they know that that's SOCIALISM? And SOCIALISM is not just automatically bad, but Anti-American(TM) even when its not.
Elton John is a fucking idiot. All that cocaine has destroyed his critical faculties.
Oh, and "Captain and the Kid" sold poorly because it, like almost everything else Elton's done since 1977, was complete tosh.
Predates that. Canaletto was notorious for letting his pupils do the easier parts of his paintings whil he concentrated on the key elements.
This is news? Handy rule of thumb: If you're three days behind the Daily Show in covering a news item, you've probably lost the right to describe that story as "news".
Yeah. All those GNU guys managed to complete were a compiler that supports 20-odd languages, a shell, the full set of portable, POSIX-compatible UNIX tools (sed, awk etc), a cross-platform plotter, a PostScript interpreter, a chess engine, a complete system for internationalisation, a C library ... oh, and about 5,000 other applications and tools.
And they only wrote those since they were all needed to compile Emacs.
Produce a stripped-down Mozilla light, that will be faster and have a much smaller memory footprint, and will run well on old hardware.
If my memory serves me well, it was going to be called "Firefox".
We already have a perfectly good phrase that means "raises the question". It's "Raises the question". If you co-opt "begs the question" to mean the same thing, your ignorance robs the rest of us of the only succinct way of saying "contains a hidden supposition which is contains the supposed conclusion."
Bull.
Blaming fructose-inhibited insulin from failing to protect people from their own chronic overeating is a cop out of the first order. If people didn't spend every waking hour stuffing their faces with lard, they wouldn't need insulin to be functioning at its most efficent levels.
But the smart money is still on "Burgers".
/ and no concept of portion control.
Sure, I've seen it a million times. But that doesn't mean its the best. It's certainly elegant if there are 3 or 4 or 5 criteria. But 20 or 30?
I'll take the goto, seriously. I'd certainly recommend using them sparingly, and never, ever use them to jump backwards. In well structured code, there's no more cost in maintaining an occasional label than checking all those braces match where you think they do.
In a subroutine would you really prefer
if(criterion1){
do_something;
} else if(criterion2) {
do_something_else();
} else if(criterion3) {
etc...
}
return;
instead of
if(criterion1){
do_something();
return;
}
if(criterion2){
do_something_else();
return;
}
if(criterion3){
etc...
}
To an experienced programmer they're the same. To an inexperienced/non-programmer, the latter is evidently clearer. Understanding the former code requires the knowledge that the second else only get checked if both the first two if()s are false. That's fairly basic, but it's not clear without that little extra knowledge.
And anyone who thinks British English isn't equally lossy hasn't tried to talk to a Glaswegian recently...
This just in: "Idealism less effective than pragmatism. Film at 11."
shorter perhaps. I don't see why it would be less bug prone.
And I do think the structure is less easy to parse, and less accurately reflects the logic and structure of the algorithm. I know flow charts are deeply unfashionable, but sometimes they capture exactly what you mean.
Different strokes for different folks.
See also "Structured programming with go to statements" by Don Knuth. He makes many of the same points that you do. IMGO goto's are the only sensible solution to a switch based on many ordered criteria. Say:
/* and so-on */
... else if ... else if ... statements, but I don't think the code would be clearer, or less bug prone.
if(criterion1||criterion3){
do_something();
goto end_of_cases;
}
if(criterion2){
do_something_else;
goto end_of_cases;
}
if(criterion4){
do something_else again();
goto end_of_cases;
}
end_of_cases:
Now you could do that with a load of if
Wow, that is hard. He doesn't even specify the domain of the multi-function arc-tangent.
I don't suppose the Captcha accepted the answer "That depends on which Riemann sheet you're on"
"Large company make business decision to drop business relationships client who are more trouble than they're worth"
I'm shocked.