Right, and that wouldn't have been a copyright infringement since they wouldn't be trying to relicense or distribute the code. Someone should moderate you as the troll you are.
IE has always been free (and probably always will be). For the Macintosh it is a great browser, the Windows version has always had a bit more kruft in it. I've never really understood why.
At any rate, he just asked that they make the source available, I'm not a huge open source guy, but I think that could have really helped back in the days of IE 3 -- and may have limited the W3C from pulling some of that crap, that has made the standard useless and IE incompatible (proof that standards bodies can do alot of harm when they aren't impartial).
More or less, to get the cloning technology. And while the movie didn't suck imo, it was entirely predictable (with the exception of Darth Maul and Liam Neeson dying). Just thinking about that "are you an angel" part makes my skin crawl. Yecchh.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants."
Somehow, I'm guessing that you don't want to deal with his followup to Frankiln's quote, because we're going to have some blood on our hands. But if you are like the freedom fighter you are quoting, then I look forward to your support as we have to spill a little blood to avoid wiretaps, encryption backdoors, etc. It won't be pretty.
And most of the world is run by tyrants. We are the leaders of the free world (and the free world likes us, coincidently).
The ridiculous thing is that if it weren't for our policies in the middle east, egypt and jordan would be spelled I-S-R-A-E-L. They don't call it the 6 day war for nothing. It's quite popular to criticize our policies, but we're doing the best we can. My sympathy for the entire arabic middle east just collapsed in the rubble.
I don't think this is true. The Soviet Union's hostage policy pretty much limited all terrorist attacks against there people.
I believe when some militant group too k soviet hostages in the 70's, the soviet unions response was to burn down the entire town the hostages were held in, including their hostages. I don't advocate this solution, but to say that it doesn't work doesn't seem to be supported by the facts. A Soviet response to smething like this would be truly terrifying, and I don't personally want to see that kind of destruction. But I don't doubt that it would be effective.:-|
Well, its offtopic for sure. And not really insightful. I think its interesting, but far too poorly written in its current form to be of any use. It's unfortuante that my illformed ramblings ring up all my karma.
I understand that porting DirectX is unlikely to make any software run on his OS as is, but wouldn't providing a directX api also allow his OS to hook into the directx driver layer, thus giving him a big body of working device drivers. In general I agree that emulation in the OS is a big waste, but emulating the hardware layer of other os'es seems like a good idea.
Of course most drivers are wrappered with configuration programs nowadays, and these would not work, but at least he would get basic support for some HW (accordingly he would probably want to use the most common hardware layer, whatever that is.
Consumerism is a simple form of a protectionist government. Doesn't protectionist government invariably lead to the infringement upon personal liberties? Doesn't it also lead to a more litigious society?
A simple scenario, in order to protect consumers, you may choose to make all cars come with airbags, and have the safety of a Camry. A) What if I'm poor, and cannot afford a Camry, but I can afford a Geo. Am I SOL, or does the goverment buy me a Camry (Socialism)? B) I'm not afraid of death and I like 1960's sports cars, with horrific safety ratings (Corvairs, e.g.). Will I be able to obtain one (keeping in mind that if I die, my family would retain the right to sue the manufacturer under many protectionist schemes)?
(One can easily draw up a similar scenario with cigarettes to see how I made up these examples).
What if I made fur rugs and someone offered me 10 panda furs. I don't think it would be morally inconsistent of me to purchase these ten furs (might as well get some use of them), but then make it clear that I would not be purchasing anymore panda furs. You may disagree with GWB, but I think his position is easily defensible.
If we're posing moral questions, I would ask why you want to save a bunch of people that clearly have deficient genetics. (If you've got Parkinson's; adopt, and stop passing on the damn gene you selfish bastard). Or at least that is one line of reasoning if you start throwing out ethics:-).
I defy anyone to explain to me how (as W would have it) it can be okay to finance research on human stem cell
lines that were created before a certain date (date of W's speech?), and verboten to finance research on stem cells
created after that date.
Maybe he's a pragmatist. He couldn't bring back the dead embryo's, so might as well use them, even though he is opposed to embryo harvesting.
Principles are a good thing if you're never wrong, I unfortunately cannot afford the luxury of principles . . . I'm wrong too often.
First you say: Really? Actually I'm a C++/C expert.
But then you say: Or, more likely since noone listens to you; the developers had to spend ages trying to get rid of the random crashes
caused by wild pointers and array overflows; and they had no design time left to improve the AI.
You may be a C++ expert, but you appear to be having a bad day. The 1998 draft standard includes two phenomena labeled auto_ptr (its in ) and vector (its in ). Array overflows and "wild" (more likely, uninitialized memory) pointers are a thing of the past (there are other smart pointers at www.boost.org, the official library reasearch team for the standards commitee). While you're waiting for your electronic copy of the standard I encourage you to learn about the gaping type holes in Java (i.e. array polymorphism). *hint* you can assign a banana to an array of apples if they both inherit from fruit). The exceptions specifications are pretty worthless as well (no nothrow guarantee:-(). I'm currently looking into a research language called Cecil, which appears to be the best thing since sliced bread.
the game logic may have little to do
with the frame rate.
Only a true Java developer could write something as foolish as this. Do you think the cpu cycle fairy gives you those extra cycles for logic. And of course if we're talking Java, you'd need a football team full of memory fairies to have enough memory to do much in Java. Why do you think the behavior of enemies in games are so predictable?
ZDNet is a parrot for big business. I guarantee they got paid to write this article.
I agree that the unfortunate adoption of patterns has set back many projects, but I don't think that invalidates pattern based design. The concepts are sound, but the misapplication is a real problem. Maybe that book needs some kind of Disclaimer, rather than being hailed as a savior.
4.Price is an issue. You mention Microsoft's cutting of prices. I think you are confused. Are you aware of the
cost of Microsoft software? Their operating systems start at US$150 and go up from there. Microsoft
Office, well, that starts at around US$350 or so, and the new leasing program, well, do you want to
continually pay for your software? I do not. The last thing I need is to get locked in to some contract in
which I keep feeding a company my money.
Maybe you better look into how Stallman wants free software to be payed for then. It's alot worse than licensing -- and it isn't voluntary (essentially it would become like Social Security, but I'm sure you already knew about that)
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Like it or not, Mickeysoft has some good programmers. I don't like Microsoft, but even I can admit the programmers there are pretty damn smart. Ever read any of their books? Writing Solid Code has many good ideas on writing bug free and easily debugged code.
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And at least as may horrible ones. As a fellow developer, I beg of you to be very careful of adopting the views of that book. A detailed review of why it can be harmful is available at accu. Code Complete, on the other hand, is a very good book. Not really by a microsoft guy, but the author spent alot of time there as a consultant. Plus he draws all of his advice from case studies, so there is research to back up what he says.
That seems unlikely. I've never heard of options that 100% vest after 6 months.
I remember when my options were worth something, but by the time they vested (which means worth something to me) they were virtually worthless. I prefer to do my gambling in Vegas, at least there it's regulated. But I do wish you good luck (if you're a developer, if not, I could care less what you get), and hope you do well.
It sounds more like you just don't know how to use Solaris, and you are too lazy to learn. GNU tools are superfluos on a Solaris System. Solaris has many flaws as an OS (or at least up to 2.6, I haven't ran 7 much or 8 at all), but kernel support for multithreading works fine since at least 2.5. You hit a flaw in linux, and yet you still want to use it. Its the whole sharp tool debate. You're doing surgery, and you've got access to a scalpel, but you prefer pocket knives cause normally you whittle. Linux makes alot of sense for some applications (e.g. imo they are good development boxes, as they are fairly cheap to upgrade), but when you want processing power (which is presumable why a program would be cranking out threads at that rate, because threads for threading sake is stupid, even for java programmers), don't be afraid to get a better tool (in this case a sun box, preferably not on x86 hardware, but maybe you guys are short on cash). Solaris machines should be stable with loads into the 80's and 90's.
There are at least two companies (Foveon and Naviant), that grab every web request coming out of an isp (using an oc3 splitter), and then relate that to who made the request using the info in the isp's billing database. Online ad agencies then look up the request and foveon tells you the zip code of the person who pays the bills for that request. They could just as easily get any other info -- but do not b/c they don't want to invade your privacy. There are other things I could tell you about, but I don't want to scare you too much:-).
I am 95% sure that you have debug on javascript option enabled. TURN IT OFF (it doesn't do what you think it does anyway). I used to have all kinds of flakiness with IE in Win 98 until I learned of that problem (it comes disabled by default, I turned it on thinking it did something different than what it does, should have rtfm).
I'm not chiding you, but most linux people I know read all sorts of stuff about how to workaround problems in linux. I know very few people who are willing to put forth that effort in Windows. Both linux and windows are extremely buggy. I suspect the bug metrics for both pieces of software are similar. My guess is OpenBSD probably has much better metrics -- mind you I can handle the bugs and so I run both Win 98 and linux.
Geez. I never realized he said this, I had to look it up and "verify" it (I found the post attributed to him anyway). I hope it was faked up because that quote is just about the most hypocritical tripe I've ever seen.
I hope this view is not common to people who support GPL. Free as in speech, does not mean Free except when I want recompense.
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And they won't. But you and I both know that you're not as smart as you wish you were, and for now that will have to be enough
Right, and that wouldn't have been a copyright infringement since they wouldn't be trying to relicense or distribute the code. Someone should moderate you as the troll you are.
IE has always been free (and probably always will be). For the Macintosh it is a great browser, the Windows version has always had a bit more kruft in it. I've never really understood why.
At any rate, he just asked that they make the source available, I'm not a huge open source guy, but I think that could have really helped back in the days of IE 3 -- and may have limited the W3C from pulling some of that crap, that has made the standard useless and IE incompatible (proof that standards bodies can do alot of harm when they aren't impartial).
Trust me, there was cloning technology on naboo.
More or less, to get the cloning technology. And while the movie didn't suck imo, it was entirely predictable (with the exception of Darth Maul and Liam Neeson dying). Just thinking about that "are you an angel" part makes my skin crawl. Yecchh.
Yes, and Jefferson said:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants."
Somehow, I'm guessing that you don't want to deal with his followup to Frankiln's quote, because we're going to have some blood on our hands. But if you are like the freedom fighter you are quoting, then I look forward to your support as we have to spill a little blood to avoid wiretaps, encryption backdoors, etc. It won't be pretty.
And most of the world is run by tyrants. We are the leaders of the free world (and the free world likes us, coincidently).
The ridiculous thing is that if it weren't for our policies in the middle east, egypt and jordan would be spelled I-S-R-A-E-L. They don't call it the 6 day war for nothing. It's quite popular to criticize our policies, but we're doing the best we can. My sympathy for the entire arabic middle east just collapsed in the rubble.
Violence induces more violence.
:-|
I don't think this is true. The Soviet Union's hostage policy pretty much limited all terrorist attacks against there people.
I believe when some militant group too k soviet hostages in the 70's, the soviet unions response was to burn down the entire town the hostages were held in, including their hostages. I don't advocate this solution, but to say that it doesn't work doesn't seem to be supported by the facts. A Soviet response to smething like this would be truly terrifying, and I don't personally want to see that kind of destruction. But I don't doubt that it would be effective.
No, the solution to people who are willing to die, is to kill them. I have no desire to be a killer, but I won't be a slave either.
Well, its offtopic for sure. And not really insightful. I think its interesting, but far too poorly written in its current form to be of any use. It's unfortuante that my illformed ramblings ring up all my karma.
I understand that porting DirectX is unlikely to make any software run on his OS as is, but wouldn't providing a directX api also allow his OS to hook into the directx driver layer, thus giving him a big body of working device drivers. In general I agree that emulation in the OS is a big waste, but emulating the hardware layer of other os'es seems like a good idea.
Of course most drivers are wrappered with configuration programs nowadays, and these would not work, but at least he would get basic support for some HW (accordingly he would probably want to use the most common hardware layer, whatever that is.
Or am I confused about how driver layers work?
Consumerism is a simple form of a protectionist government. Doesn't protectionist government invariably lead to the infringement upon personal liberties? Doesn't it also lead to a more litigious society?
A simple scenario, in order to protect consumers, you may choose to make all cars come with airbags, and have the safety of a Camry. A) What if I'm poor, and cannot afford a Camry, but I can afford a Geo. Am I SOL, or does the goverment buy me a Camry (Socialism)? B) I'm not afraid of death and I like 1960's sports cars, with horrific safety ratings (Corvairs, e.g.). Will I be able to obtain one (keeping in mind that if I die, my family would retain the right to sue the manufacturer under many protectionist schemes)?
(One can easily draw up a similar scenario with cigarettes to see how I made up these examples).
What if I made fur rugs and someone offered me 10 panda furs. I don't think it would be morally inconsistent of me to purchase these ten furs (might as well get some use of them), but then make it clear that I would not be purchasing anymore panda furs. You may disagree with GWB, but I think his position is easily defensible.
:-).
If we're posing moral questions, I would ask why you want to save a bunch of people that clearly have deficient genetics. (If you've got Parkinson's; adopt, and stop passing on the damn gene you selfish bastard). Or at least that is one line of reasoning if you start throwing out ethics
I defy anyone to explain to me how (as W would have it) it can be okay to finance research on human stem cell
lines that were created before a certain date (date of W's speech?), and verboten to finance research on stem cells
created after that date.
Maybe he's a pragmatist. He couldn't bring back the dead embryo's, so might as well use them, even though he is opposed to embryo harvesting.
Principles are a good thing if you're never wrong, I unfortunately cannot afford the luxury of principles . . . I'm wrong too often.
First you say:
:-(). I'm currently looking into a research language called Cecil, which appears to be the best thing since sliced bread.
Really? Actually I'm a C++/C expert.
But then you say:
Or, more likely since noone listens to you; the developers had to spend ages trying to get rid of the random crashes caused by wild pointers and array overflows; and they had no design time left to improve the AI.
You may be a C++ expert, but you appear to be having a bad day. The 1998 draft standard includes two phenomena labeled auto_ptr (its in ) and vector (its in ). Array overflows and "wild" (more likely, uninitialized memory) pointers are a thing of the past (there are other smart pointers at www.boost.org, the official library reasearch team for the standards commitee). While you're waiting for your electronic copy of the standard I encourage you to learn about the gaping type holes in Java (i.e. array polymorphism). *hint* you can assign a banana to an array of apples if they both inherit from fruit). The exceptions specifications are pretty worthless as well (no nothrow guarantee
the game logic may have little to do with the frame rate.
Only a true Java developer could write something as foolish as this. Do you think the cpu cycle fairy gives you those extra cycles for logic. And of course if we're talking Java, you'd need a football team full of memory fairies to have enough memory to do much in Java. Why do you think the behavior of enemies in games are so predictable?
ZDNet is a parrot for big business. I guarantee they got paid to write this article.
I agree that the unfortunate adoption of patterns has set back many projects, but I don't think that invalidates pattern based design. The concepts are sound, but the misapplication is a real problem. Maybe that book needs some kind of Disclaimer, rather than being hailed as a savior.
4.Price is an issue. You mention Microsoft's cutting of prices. I think you are confused. Are you aware of the cost of Microsoft software? Their operating systems start at US$150 and go up from there. Microsoft Office, well, that starts at around US$350 or so, and the new leasing program, well, do you want to continually pay for your software? I do not. The last thing I need is to get locked in to some contract in which I keep feeding a company my money.
Maybe you better look into how Stallman wants free software to be payed for then. It's alot worse than licensing -- and it isn't voluntary (essentially it would become like Social Security, but I'm sure you already knew about that)
You Said:
Like it or not, Mickeysoft has some good programmers. I don't like Microsoft, but even I can admit the programmers there are pretty damn smart. Ever read any of their books? Writing Solid Code has many good ideas on writing bug free and easily debugged code.
Reply:
And at least as may horrible ones. As a fellow developer, I beg of you to be very careful of adopting the views of that book. A detailed review of why it can be harmful is available at accu. Code Complete, on the other hand, is a very good book. Not really by a microsoft guy, but the author spent alot of time there as a consultant. Plus he draws all of his advice from case studies, so there is research to back up what he says.
That seems unlikely. I've never heard of options that 100% vest after 6 months.
I remember when my options were worth something, but by the time they vested (which means worth something to me) they were virtually worthless. I prefer to do my gambling in Vegas, at least there it's regulated. But I do wish you good luck (if you're a developer, if not, I could care less what you get), and hope you do well.
It sounds more like you just don't know how to use Solaris, and you are too lazy to learn. GNU tools are superfluos on a Solaris System. Solaris has many flaws as an OS (or at least up to 2.6, I haven't ran 7 much or 8 at all), but kernel support for multithreading works fine since at least 2.5. You hit a flaw in linux, and yet you still want to use it. Its the whole sharp tool debate. You're doing surgery, and you've got access to a scalpel, but you prefer pocket knives cause normally you whittle. Linux makes alot of sense for some applications (e.g. imo they are good development boxes, as they are fairly cheap to upgrade), but when you want processing power (which is presumable why a program would be cranking out threads at that rate, because threads for threading sake is stupid, even for java programmers), don't be afraid to get a better tool (in this case a sun box, preferably not on x86 hardware, but maybe you guys are short on cash). Solaris machines should be stable with loads into the 80's and 90's.
Its actually much worse than this.
:-).
There are at least two companies (Foveon and Naviant), that grab every web request coming out of an isp (using an oc3 splitter), and then relate that to who made the request using the info in the isp's billing database. Online ad agencies then look up the request and foveon tells you the zip code of the person who pays the bills for that request. They could just as easily get any other info -- but do not b/c they don't want to invade your privacy. There are other things I could tell you about, but I don't want to scare you too much
Clearly, you and I had different degrees of flakiness in mind. I'm sorry that I can't help you.
I am 95% sure that you have debug on javascript option enabled. TURN IT OFF (it doesn't do what you think it does anyway). I used to have all kinds of flakiness with IE in Win 98 until I learned of that problem (it comes disabled by default, I turned it on thinking it did something different than what it does, should have rtfm).
I'm not chiding you, but most linux people I know read all sorts of stuff about how to workaround problems in linux. I know very few people who are willing to put forth that effort in Windows. Both linux and windows are extremely buggy. I suspect the bug metrics for both pieces of software are similar. My guess is OpenBSD probably has much better metrics -- mind you I can handle the bugs and so I run both Win 98 and linux.
Geez. I never realized he said this, I had to look it up and "verify" it (I found the post attributed to him anyway). I hope it was faked up because that quote is just about the most hypocritical tripe I've ever seen.
I hope this view is not common to people who support GPL. Free as in speech, does not mean Free except when I want recompense.
Thanks for the nugget.