Right. I don't suppose you've read Cathedral and the Bazaar, used Fetchmail, or configured a kernel with CML2
Ohhh.. who's life would be complete without reading the Cathedral and the Bazaar? I looked over it, about as usefull as your average k5 diatribe.
And no, I don't use fetchmail, I don't need it. I know how to configure sendmail. Even I had a use, I still wouldn't. I wouldn't touch code written by those slimy fingers. Its not like I couldn't just write my own. (I've written my own telnet, HTTP, FTP, POP3, IRC and Gnutella clients, as well as an HTTPd server. A fetchmail clone would take me like 4 days)
And no, I haven't used CML2 to configure my kernel.
I don't see why choosing not to use the software of an egomaniac disqualifies me to have an opinion about him.
Well, for me, the primary reason for wishing ill on VA Linux is Eric S. Raymond. The man is a parasite on "Open Source", although he seems to think he's their savior. Raymond holds a seat on VA's board, and his fortunes roll with it. I have no ill will toward VA in general. But I delight in seeing Eric Raymond eat his "I'm rich now ha ha" words. As his once $35 on-paper million dollar fortune drops to below a meg.
But other then that, there is a real difference between Apple and the crop of Linux companies. With the Mac, everything depended on Apple, and really it was Steve Jobs who designed the thing. But these Linux companies are just making money off something that's already popular. VA does give back to the community, but they also take. Slashdot was around long before VA bought them (or rather the company that/. Sold to. CT initially didn't want to be owned by one of the Linux corps, and refused to sell directly to VA)
The real and fundamental difference is that without apple, there would be no Mac. Without VA, what do we loose? You can buy Linux powered hardware from most of the major players nowadays, and Most of the commercially produced Linux code is coming out of Red Hat.
I think a lot of the animosity generated towards VA is caused by the fact that they tried to be 'the' Linux company, getting the stock symbol "LNUX" and everything, buying all the major Linux sites, that kind of thing.
And of course, employing ESR as their 'corporate conscious' is isn't winning them many brownie points (I hope)
...m all wrong for having them, and that I should just shut up because I'm evil and dear god does this website suck now. Oh, the short review, I dug it. There might be minor spoilers, so if you wanna avoid them, fle...
After this comment, I read the above post like five times. For the best of my efforts I cannot find anything the least bit incomprehensable. Why did you have so much trouble understanding him?
Gosh, I'm down to posting a link to the Hot 100 analysis almost once a week anymore. I'll let you find it yourself this time: go to groups.google.com and search comp.os.linux.advocacy for "hot 100 uptimes", and read what you find. Or do a new analysis yourself, and post your results for us.
You do realize of course that there is a diffrence between a computer being on for a long time and it's opperating system being "W2K IS a serious Enterprise-ready scaleable and reliable OS." -- I mean, those uptimes are like 5 years. How the hell is a 2 year OS going to be able to beat that?
The good thing about VB is, simply by learning a few new objects, you can writing GUI apps, middleware components, server-side scripts, web apps, web services, DB apps, etc
a good programmer would be able to do those things without 'learning new objects' Visual basic is pure shit.
Actualy, BASIC wasn't intended to be an acryonim. Someone figured it out later (Josepha = Job Oriented System exicution prossesor - high availablity) , it spread. See the Jargon file for more info.
I'd rather use echo commands then deal with the horrid obsolete chunk that is the "visual editor". I have no idea why people would want to deal with something like that.
Yeh, yeh, mod me down as 'flamebait' or whatever, but I just had to say that.
Use C for the right task, but LEARN C before you become a serious programmer. Understanding pointers (and memory allocation/deallocation), low-level I/O, allocation on the stack vs. the heap, and all the other headaches that C forces on you helps you to really understand what is going on behind the curtain presented by higher-level languages. It also helps you to appreciate what the higher level languages do for you.
Why not just learn assembly language if you want to know how a computer works? It get's you a lot closer to the metal then C.
Trying to Learn C won't do him any good other then painfully making leaky programs.
which is the same as a Turing Machine. If you don't know what a Turing Machine is, you aren't qualified to have an opinion on this topic
ohh... you said 'Turing machine' a cookie for you!
Turing Machine's have nothing to do with 'expressiveness', just calculability. And yes, some things really are easier to do in more powerful languages then in not-so-powerful languages. I mean, fuck, you know that a 'Turing complete' language doesn't even need to have arrays, or named variables or pointers? Try programming without those for a while and come back and tell us how no languages is any more 'powerful' then any other.
I don't get why these people were so worried. I mean, did they think people would be afraid if people could (oh my gosh) record television shows? Oh The horror!
Seriously, hundreds of millions of people around the world already have the ability to permanently store video... it's called a VCR. I mean, fuck I can get then tapes for ten dollars nowadays.
I can't believe that a place calling itself 'the TiVo underground' would voluntarily pull stuff, without any threatening letters, and ban the discussion of said tool on their site. I mean, what the fuck.
Recording television shows. Oh, the horror!
(By the way, seriously cool hardware hack! I am sexualy aroused.)
The RIAA, being it's usual bastardus sell has sued launch.com. A site that that uses some fancy algorithms to play what it thinks you'll want to hear. The RIAA thinks it's to customizable.
What's funny? the fact that Launch.com is owned by some pretty big RIAA members.
fuck, for some reason I sound like a press release or something today.)
real time localization with voice synth... I don't know a lot of acting is in expressions of human emotion. Something I don't think a computer could do (in real time) vey well at all.
So while autolocalization might be nice, It's probably something better done by hiring local actors, and re-rendering the mouths and faces.
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And what's the point in learning obsolete metaphores?
I won't expound that point since no one will read this of course
And better then you, I'd bet.
Right. I don't suppose you've read Cathedral and the Bazaar, used Fetchmail, or configured a kernel with CML2
Ohhh.. who's life would be complete without reading the Cathedral and the Bazaar? I looked over it, about as usefull as your average k5 diatribe.
And no, I don't use fetchmail, I don't need it. I know how to configure sendmail. Even I had a use, I still wouldn't. I wouldn't touch code written by those slimy fingers. Its not like I couldn't just write my own. (I've written my own telnet, HTTP, FTP, POP3, IRC and Gnutella clients, as well as an HTTPd server. A fetchmail clone would take me like 4 days)
And no, I haven't used CML2 to configure my kernel.
I don't see why choosing not to use the software of an egomaniac disqualifies me to have an opinion about him.
Well, for me, the primary reason for wishing ill on VA Linux is Eric S. Raymond. The man is a parasite on "Open Source", although he seems to think he's their savior. Raymond holds a seat on VA's board, and his fortunes roll with it. I have no ill will toward VA in general. But I delight in seeing Eric Raymond eat his "I'm rich now ha ha" words. As his once $35 on-paper million dollar fortune drops to below a meg.
/. Sold to. CT initially didn't want to be owned by one of the Linux corps, and refused to sell directly to VA)
But other then that, there is a real difference between Apple and the crop of Linux companies. With the Mac, everything depended on Apple, and really it was Steve Jobs who designed the thing. But these Linux companies are just making money off something that's already popular. VA does give back to the community, but they also take. Slashdot was around long before VA bought them (or rather the company that
The real and fundamental difference is that without apple, there would be no Mac. Without VA, what do we loose? You can buy Linux powered hardware from most of the major players nowadays, and Most of the commercially produced Linux code is coming out of Red Hat.
I think a lot of the animosity generated towards VA is caused by the fact that they tried to be 'the' Linux company, getting the stock symbol "LNUX" and everything, buying all the major Linux sites, that kind of thing.
And of course, employing ESR as their 'corporate conscious' is isn't winning them many brownie points (I hope)
A teeny-boper country-western song. *shudder*
...m all wrong for having them, and that I should just shut up because I'm evil and dear god does this website suck now. Oh, the short review, I dug it. There might be minor spoilers, so if you wanna avoid them, fle...
It's funny 'cuz it's true!
The rest of your post I cannot understand.
After this comment, I read the above post like five times. For the best of my efforts I cannot find anything the least bit incomprehensable. Why did you have so much trouble understanding him?
Gosh, I'm down to posting a link to the Hot 100 analysis almost once a week anymore. I'll let you find it yourself this time: go to groups.google.com and search comp.os.linux.advocacy for "hot 100 uptimes", and read what you find. Or do a new analysis yourself, and post your results for us.
You do realize of course that there is a diffrence between a computer being on for a long time and it's opperating system being "W2K IS a serious Enterprise-ready scaleable and reliable OS." -- I mean, those uptimes are like 5 years. How the hell is a 2 year OS going to be able to beat that?
EMPs don't erase hard drives. Usualy they just distrupt an electrical circut, without damaging the hardware to much.
Does it hurt, being so stupid?
No one ever used one time pads
hard drives can be read after simple deletion.
The good thing about VB is, simply by learning a few new objects, you can writing GUI apps, middleware components, server-side scripts, web apps, web services, DB apps, etc
a good programmer would be able to do those things without 'learning new objects' Visual basic is pure shit.
Actualy, BASIC wasn't intended to be an acryonim. Someone figured it out later (Josepha = Job Oriented System exicution prossesor - high availablity) , it spread. See the Jargon file for more info.
look at comment 200...
:P
What's funny is that right now at +2 your comments show up right after eachother
I'd rather use echo commands then deal with the horrid obsolete chunk that is the "visual editor". I have no idea why people would want to deal with something like that.
Yeh, yeh, mod me down as 'flamebait' or whatever, but I just had to say that.
is a chunk of crap. Postgres is where it's at if you don't want to pay any money.
Use C for the right task, but LEARN C before you become a serious programmer. Understanding pointers (and memory allocation/deallocation), low-level I/O, allocation on the stack vs. the heap, and all the other headaches that C forces on you helps you to really understand what is going on behind the curtain presented by higher-level languages. It also helps you to appreciate what the higher level languages do for you.
Why not just learn assembly language if you want to know how a computer works? It get's you a lot closer to the metal then C.
Trying to Learn C won't do him any good other then painfully making leaky programs.
which is the same as a Turing Machine. If you don't know what a Turing Machine is, you aren't qualified to have an opinion on this topic
ohh... you said 'Turing machine' a cookie for you!
Turing Machine's have nothing to do with 'expressiveness', just calculability. And yes, some things really are easier to do in more powerful languages then in not-so-powerful languages. I mean, fuck, you know that a 'Turing complete' language doesn't even need to have arrays, or named variables or pointers? Try programming without those for a while and come back and tell us how no languages is any more 'powerful' then any other.
"expert visual basic programmer"
Well, that was good for a laugh in an otherwise boring day.
I don't get why these people were so worried. I mean, did they think people would be afraid if people could (oh my gosh) record television shows? Oh The horror!
Seriously, hundreds of millions of people around the world already have the ability to permanently store video... it's called a VCR. I mean, fuck I can get then tapes for ten dollars nowadays.
I can't believe that a place calling itself 'the TiVo underground' would voluntarily pull stuff, without any threatening letters, and ban the discussion of said tool on their site. I mean, what the fuck.
Recording television shows. Oh, the horror!
(By the way, seriously cool hardware hack! I am sexualy aroused.)
but how can you possibly say that what you posted isn't 'flamebait'
The RIAA, being it's usual bastardus sell has sued launch.com. A site that that uses some fancy algorithms to play what it thinks you'll want to hear. The RIAA thinks it's to customizable.
What's funny? the fact that Launch.com is owned by some pretty big RIAA members.
fuck, for some reason I sound like a press release or something today.)
real time localization with voice synth... I don't know a lot of acting is in expressions of human emotion. Something I don't think a computer could do (in real time) vey well at all.
So while autolocalization might be nice, It's probably something better done by hiring local actors, and re-rendering the mouths and faces.
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Memory prices on apple.com: (pc100 SDRAM)
64 megs: $100
128megs: $200
256megs: $400
Prices for PC133 memory on pricewatch.com
64 megs: $9
128megs:: $15 256megs: $26
Unless you think paying $400 for something that you can get for $26 is somehow fair, I think it's you who needs to stop 'beeing a troll'. Looser.