It seems to me that every time RMS has had an opinion on something it has been validated some time in the future. That's not to say that his solutions have been validated, just the problems he has pointed out. Every single problem that he has stated an opinion on, has come to haunt us. An almost always he is described as a crackpot when he states his opinions. I think RMS is one of the true visionaries in the world, he sees the future and suggests ways to avoid it. Sometimes his views are followed with great success (gnu/linux for example) Other times they are ignored, (copyright and patent problems stated way back when have been a thorn in the side of many software developers).
I don't believe that Canada has less protection for freedom of speech. Maybe lately, because they've been following the lead of the states. But to give a historical perspective, Canada had a communist party decades before the US would allow it. They were never voted in, but they were allowed to run. (free speech and all). Canada has never nationalized gold (The US has twice), Canada has never locked up a group of people because of race. (Negroes, American Indians, and Asian for the US). Canada has never shot protesters. They've locked them up recently but they were let go later. The US has songs about it:
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.
The Americans are tend to give Christian religions a free pass, but anything else is under very tight scrutiny. Less so in Canada.
Americans in general give great lip service to free speech but compared to Canada it's not as free. Then again, Canada isn't as free as it's lip service either.
People should feel uncomfortable about making a mistake. The purpose of the language is to make them uncomfortable. If being publicly embarrassed about code that you enter makes you think twice or three times about the quality then I'm all for it.
I'm sorry to say that in trying out QT a hello world app involves over 10 megabytes. (I remember doing it in Dos with only 16 or so bytes). Of course it's doing a lot of graphics etc, but if you've got to port the qt system and all the supporting libraries over it will be substantial.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. (I would love to be mistaken about this).
After they spammed my gmail address book with invites. The request page to do this, looks just like the log in page, so thinking that they need your password to log in you end up spamming mailing lists and people you haven't talked to in years.
Some silly Linux thing eh? Let's translate it into cars, as we are on slashdot.
You can no longer use brand X gas in your car you must use brand Y. You're okay with that, right? But you can no longer use wheels on your car and you have a problem with that.
You forget that some of us paid close to $1000 when it first came out, with the understanding that it could play games, do it's sony thing, play blueray disks, and run Linux.
So I deserve some of that original money back. I don't like being held up for about $200 worth of functionality. You might be okay with that, but then again plenty of people don't mind being smacked in the face once in a while. I for one, DO NOT ACCEPT the Sony overlords.
I've got a question that I didn't think of to ask in time for the interview. Have you ever gone into a situation where you thought you would be debunking something only to find out that the person was on the level?
I'm thinking if a debunker had heard of penicillin (being cured of small pox by using bread mold!?!) he would have been able to cast dispersions on Fleming etc. Is there ever a case where you were debunking actual advancement and decided that it didn't need to be debunked after all?
Is to play them on the piano. Once played my brain can move on to other things. It's like nudge nudge, it goes like this.... try it out... nudge nudge... it goes like this.. try it out...... and so on, until it is satisfied.
Yes I've gone through a few different programs, and had almost settled on blender when I discovered openscad. The great thing about openscad is you can build upon things and include things more then once. It also doesn't have the problem of scale or holes in your model (a very big problem with blender).
>>I think that the kde desktop is much easier then any windows in the past or current. There's a reason.
>And what reason would that be?
That windows 8 sucks big time. (I use it everyday so I know). And kde is easy to use. (I use it everyday too!)
Your ATI is funky between distros isn't because there isn't an ABI (there is, it's opensource you can't get more ABI then that!) It's because ATI has problems. I don't switch between distros much so I can't really comment on why ATI is having problems, but all I can say that with Sabayon or Gentoo they've worked flawlessly. As for IE support, I don't give a flying fuck. Point is there is no reason to change to Win8. If you are using Windows 7 and like it stick with it. Win 8 wasn't built for the desktop.
Also this discussion was about using Linux for Non-Technical users. I still support that kde is easier to use then Windows of any strip but probably not enough to change if you have already learned MS's system. If you haven't used any system kde is the way to go.
Given a price of $1.17 per liter, and given 3.78541 liters per gallon, I paid around $4.42 per gallon.
I like how the US sticks to imperial, then changes the size of the gallon to smaller so you think you aren't paying as much. At least in Canada we know we are paying through the nose. We export to the US so does that mean that Canadian citizens are supporting the US economy? We are actually paying for you to drive?
I've got a makerbot and have had no problems with overhang. I've been able to bridge 2.5 cm's and it's perfect. There were some minor problems with the kit, but it was a very enjoyable project. If you have any skills at building things at all you can do it, and it's fun.
And I must say that as the Editor in Chief he has a very simplistic view of the problem. If I understand, his view is that a global exception added at the compiler level would somehow solve all the problems. He gives the example of calling "open" without worrying about it failing. Of course he doesn't state how to handle the failure when it occurs. For example
open(file1);// ok open(file2);// failure
What happens to file1 in this case? How is the code cleaned up? There may be a case where you don't want to just close all files in the functions, but just create file2 if the open failed. (for example).
His complaint is that there is too many options available for error handling, and that they lead to cluttered code. As far as I can see the alternative is not enough options available and code not always doing what you want, and having to fight the compiler in order to get what you want.
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Why would they choose unreal. they could use many other engines that do support Linux. Opengl.....
It seems to me that every time RMS has had an opinion on something it has been validated some time in the future. That's not to say that his solutions have been validated, just the problems he has pointed out. Every single problem that he has stated an opinion on, has come to haunt us. An almost always he is described as a crackpot when he states his opinions. I think RMS is one of the true visionaries in the world, he sees the future and suggests ways to avoid it. Sometimes his views are followed with great success (gnu/linux for example) Other times they are ignored, (copyright and patent problems stated way back when have been a thorn in the side of many software developers).
I really hate governments that decide they need to make an example of someone. Is it my imagination or is the US doing that A LOT?
I don't believe that Canada has less protection for freedom of speech. Maybe lately, because they've been following the lead of the states. But to give a historical perspective, Canada had a communist party decades before the US would allow it. They were never voted in, but they were allowed to run. (free speech and all). Canada has never nationalized gold (The US has twice), Canada has never locked up a group of people because of race. (Negroes, American Indians, and Asian for the US). Canada has never shot protesters. They've locked them up recently but they were let go later. The US has songs about it:
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
The Americans are tend to give Christian religions a free pass, but anything else is under very tight scrutiny. Less so in Canada.
Americans in general give great lip service to free speech but compared to Canada it's not as free. Then again, Canada isn't as free as it's lip service either.
People should feel uncomfortable about making a mistake. The purpose of the language is to make them uncomfortable. If being publicly embarrassed about code that you enter makes you think twice or three times about the quality then I'm all for it.
I'm sorry to say that in trying out QT a hello world app involves over 10 megabytes. (I remember doing it in Dos with only 16 or so bytes). Of course it's doing a lot of graphics etc, but if you've got to port the qt system and all the supporting libraries over it will be substantial.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. (I would love to be mistaken about this).
After they spammed my gmail address book with invites. The request page to do this, looks just like the log in page, so thinking that they need your password to log in you end up spamming mailing lists and people you haven't talked to in years.
I'm not the only one, http://community.linkedin.com/questions/19949/why-did-you-send-invitation-emails-to-my-entire-gm.html#comment-31842
Some silly Linux thing eh? Let's translate it into cars, as we are on slashdot.
You can no longer use brand X gas in your car you must use brand Y. You're okay with that, right?
But you can no longer use wheels on your car and you have a problem with that.
You forget that some of us paid close to $1000 when it first came out, with the understanding that it could play games, do it's sony thing, play blueray disks, and run Linux.
So I deserve some of that original money back. I don't like being held up for about $200 worth of functionality. You might be okay with that, but then again plenty of people don't mind being smacked in the face once in a while. I for one, DO NOT ACCEPT the Sony overlords.
I've got a question that I didn't think of to ask in time for the interview.
Have you ever gone into a situation where you thought you would be debunking something only to find out that the person was on the level?
I'm thinking if a debunker had heard of penicillin (being cured of small pox by using bread mold!?!) he would have been able to cast dispersions on Fleming etc. Is there ever a case where you were debunking actual advancement and decided that it didn't need to be debunked after all?
I agree. I'm still boycotting Sony, they are bullies in corporate shirts.
You know like the PS3 used to?
God no!, You think having one song stuck in your head is bad, having 5 or 6 is a terrible!
Is to play them on the piano. Once played my brain can move on to other things. It's like nudge nudge, it goes like this.... try it out... nudge nudge... it goes like this .. try it out...... and so on, until it is satisfied.
Yes I've gone through a few different programs, and had almost settled on blender when I discovered openscad. The great thing about openscad is you can build upon things and include things more then once. It also doesn't have the problem of scale or holes in your model (a very big problem with blender).
It has ended up saving me a lot of work.
>>I think that the kde desktop is much easier then any windows in the past or current. There's a reason.
>And what reason would that be?
That windows 8 sucks big time. (I use it everyday so I know). And kde is easy to use. (I use it everyday too!)
Your ATI is funky between distros isn't because there isn't an ABI (there is, it's opensource you can't get more ABI then that!) It's because ATI has problems. I don't switch between distros much so I can't really comment on why ATI is having problems, but all I can say that with Sabayon or Gentoo they've worked flawlessly.
As for IE support, I don't give a flying fuck.
Point is there is no reason to change to Win8. If you are using Windows 7 and like it stick with it. Win 8 wasn't built for the desktop.
Also this discussion was about using Linux for Non-Technical users. I still support that kde is easier to use then Windows of any strip but probably not enough to change if you have already learned MS's system. If you haven't used any system kde is the way to go.
Given a price of $1.17 per liter, and given 3.78541 liters per gallon, I paid around $4.42 per gallon.
I like how the US sticks to imperial, then changes the size of the gallon to smaller so you think you aren't paying as much. At least in Canada we know we are paying through the nose. We export to the US so does that mean that Canadian citizens are supporting the US economy? We are actually paying for you to drive?
I sometimes just don't get it.
I think that the kde desktop is much easier then any windows in the past or current. There's a reason.
But VERY FUNNY and very different. (although I like her earlier work best!)
I hope so, it would be great to get a lithograph 3d printer.
I've got a makerbot and have had no problems with overhang. I've been able to bridge 2.5 cm's and it's perfect. There were some minor problems with the kit, but it was a very enjoyable project. If you have any skills at building things at all you can do it, and it's fun.
If I had mod points I would moderate you at +1 missed the obvious.
And I must say that as the Editor in Chief he has a very simplistic view of the problem. If I understand, his view is that a global exception added at the compiler level would somehow solve all the problems. He gives the example of calling "open" without worrying about it failing. Of course he doesn't state how to handle the failure when it occurs. For example
open(file1); // ok // failure
open(file2);
What happens to file1 in this case? How is the code cleaned up? There may be a case where you don't want to just close all files in the functions, but just create file2 if the open failed. (for example).
His complaint is that there is too many options available for error handling, and that they lead to cluttered code. As far as I can see the alternative is not enough options available and code not always doing what you want, and having to fight the compiler in order to get what you want.
If I had Mod points you would be +1 obvious :)
Who would have thunk it? On US citizen suing another. Oh the shock of it all!
Which begs the question, how do you know what your dog's asshole tastes like?