The label 'alpha' presupposes very little in my mind. There are a number of things in the system that are working already, so why can't we call it an alpha?
You remember what happened when Unix went that route? After it left academia, a bunch of companies made incompatible versions of it and bickered with each other until Microsoft game and fed them their lunch.**
** Grossly oversimplified and inaccurate of course
I have a theory that people who deal with computers as a career require at least a little bit of assholishness to be able to function in the field (I include myself in that stereotype). But maybe you could make that same argument about life in general...
The last several articles involving Linus involved, as I recall, him specifically telling people not to do something and then they did it anyway, or them making very obvious poor coding decisions. In which case, yes, they should be yelled at to get it through their thick skulls.
As far as I'm aware, 'new' is in C++ and not C, which proves my point so far....Plus, there've been articles in here with people talking about writing "C++" that is compiled as C++ and by the (a) C++ compiler, but is basically C, if you don't use all the new class stuff etc. etc.
It's not pre-alpha; in fact they're.3 away from beta release. It says it's alpha in bold type right on their front page. Of course, that probably means another 6+ years, but...
How does one post an entire operating system install to YouTube? Do a video capture of the install process? Because I'm pretty confident I can pull that off without any errors. I'll do you one better and even install it as a dual-boot and still be able to boot Windows.
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So he was oversimplifying it a bit. Big freakin' deal; that's still the spirit of the process.
Downloadhelper + VLC locally = Winning. After enough time it practically becomes a habit.
The label 'alpha' presupposes very little in my mind. There are a number of things in the system that are working already, so why can't we call it an alpha?
He's said he would have probably contributed to BSD if they hadn't been tied up in court with AT&T over copyright issues at the time.
Can you do better? Please feel free.
You remember what happened when Unix went that route? After it left academia, a bunch of companies made incompatible versions of it and bickered with each other until Microsoft game and fed them their lunch.**
** Grossly oversimplified and inaccurate of course
I have a theory that people who deal with computers as a career require at least a little bit of assholishness to be able to function in the field (I include myself in that stereotype). But maybe you could make that same argument about life in general...
The last several articles involving Linus involved, as I recall, him specifically telling people not to do something and then they did it anyway, or them making very obvious poor coding decisions. In which case, yes, they should be yelled at to get it through their thick skulls.
So what kind do you beat it to?
I'm not sure where this analogy is going...
Oh wait, "new as an identifier". Sorry, misread that :(
As far as I'm aware, 'new' is in C++ and not C, which proves my point so far....Plus, there've been articles in here with people talking about writing "C++" that is compiled as C++ and by the (a) C++ compiler, but is basically C, if you don't use all the new class stuff etc. etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_(C++)
(Disclaimer: I have done C++ programming but not C. I only know some of the differences academically.)
So basically, your post can be condensed to: "Yes."
It's not pre-alpha; in fact they're .3 away from beta release. It says it's alpha in bold type right on their front page. Of course, that probably means another 6+ years, but...
They've been working away for over 10 years without reaching beta and now you want them to do two different products at the same time?!
implemented in a subset of C++ programming language.
Doesn't C itself technically fit that criteria?
My 7 install has an odd tendency to panic over the graphics driver right about once every 6 months. But other than that, yes, pretty stable.
How does one post an entire operating system install to YouTube? Do a video capture of the install process? Because I'm pretty confident I can pull that off without any errors. I'll do you one better and even install it as a dual-boot and still be able to boot Windows.
So what else would you call a screen with a blue background that indicates your operating system dying?
My family had ME. Occasionally it would boot directly to a blue screen.
Well, if you end up running your liver into the ground even faster than before...
...and nothing of value was lost :)
"Slaughter" and "Massacre" implies that the killing is all one-sided. I think there are a great number of servicemen who would strongly disagree.
Well sure, if you never use bookmarks or care about cached sessions and stuff...
I think finding the need to point out that it's a worm, not a virus, is part of why normal users hate computer nerds.