For multiplatform GUI applications you really need a framework. WxWindows if you want a crap framework, or Qt if you want a good one. So since you need one anyways, I don't see the benefit of Lina's method.
In the demo it shows them running a LAMP application (some email thing). This makes sense. Its similar to using VMWare to distribute applications occupied by complete operating systems that otherwise would be hard to configure.
The purpose of the run command under the Start menu is for help desk support. Assuming your talking to someone who can hear you and can spell (not always the case) its often easier to give instructions for a command line.
With something like Qt, its "write once, compile three times". Distribute binaries for Linux, OS X, Windows. All with a native look and feel, using native compilers and libraries.
Its not clear how this thing works with the GUI. Is it a new toolkit? Is it a hack of the Gtk toolkit? (I thought it was funny how the demo talks about the "native Gtk looknfeel from within what looks like KDE).
But why do they prefer state rights over individual rights?
The major ideological issue with the libertarians is that they prefer corporate rights over individual rights. They are generally just blind to the notion that corporations wield significant power that needs to be checked, in the same way government do.
I'm not an anarchist by any means, but at least they are more consistent.
Paul wants to abolish the income tax, repeal the 14th amendment in regards to creating citizenship for American born babies (which would create a whole new multi-generational class of illegal immigrants living in the shadows), supports the states right to take a way a woman's right over her own body. It always seemed odd to me when libertarians prefer state rights over individual rights...
Granted, his Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 is a fucking awesome idea, if only for being so old-school. He called 9/11 "air piracy", which it absolutely was.
If the Democrat nomination is locked up by when I vote, I might cross over and vote for Paul. There's no way he would win, but it would make the general election far more entertaining and would shape the debate in useful ways.
Hey are we forgetting about the topic here? You could provide 10gb of space to all your users.
Really I don't have any problem with ISPs providing crap email service, since no one who knows what they're doing would use ISP email (due to transferability problems). But at least admit its crap and don't blame customers when they want to keep their email online.
You assume your customers are home-bound senior citizens apparently. Otherwise its pretty ridiculious to think thunderbird is a reasonable replacement for the webmail they can access from anywhere.
I've worked at a campus help desk. When people complained about our email service (thats a bit better then parents) I would actually tell them they should just get GMail.
There isn't much for-profit piracy in the US. In China it is apparently widespread. Shops openly doing business in pirated goods, which is the foundation of the US WTO complaint.
I think its all kind of ironic given how there was a lot of opposition to China joining the WTO by protectionist in the US. It may end up that the WTO is our tool to open CHina to all our awesome movies and expensive copies of Vista. And I can't think of a better thing for Linux then if China stopped pirating Windows. So go kick some ass WTO!:)
His point is that they aren't dominating the industry, that they'll become another post-80s IBM. And IBM is itself doing quite well, so if I was a stockholder of MS I wouldn't be too worried.
This has nothing to do with patent reform. They bought the copyright to BeOS.
Copyright does need reforming, but not for the case of technology. Copyright's should probably last only 14 years as opposed to a 70, but thats pretty damn irrelevant for software. And source code is usually under "trade secret" anyways.
The shuttle software development process is actually famous. A textbook case of good software engineering. At least a decade ago, it spent the most per line of code of any government software contract. The development documents take up several shelfs of large binders. And it was noted for being almost entirely bug free. I doubt its a hodgepodge of different languages, though it might be I suppose....its amazes me that with all their planning they didn't think about a year change.
Don't worry, they've been working on machine translation since the 60s and fully automatic translation still sucks. Speech to text isn't so great either.
Language is complicated!
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Um, well openoffice already had an existing codebase (in fact, a gargantuan one) from a commercial product.
I think its pretty easy to tell if someone gets struck by lightening. For one thing, the body doesn't disappear.
And assuming you live in an apartment building... it would be pretty reasonable to guess that a sewage clog was due to your neighbor using their bathroom at the ame time as a clog. Not enough for a conviction in a court of law, but certainly a conviction in the court of public opinion.
I don't understand either. I guess it isn't all Schilling's copyright. If he could just get the whole thing licensed under the CDDL I suspect there wouldn't be any problems.
I don't know if you can go and just blame the Muslims for the Hindu vs. Muslim conflict in India and Pakistan. Polytheists are able to easily just include another religions into their own, this is true. But religious conflict (whether Northern Ireland or South Asia) is usually just an an ethnic conflict in which the two ethnicities have different religions.
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The OED hardly counts as a standard dictionary with the vocab from your local English newspaper. It attempts to encompass/all/ English spoken and written anywhere. This is the dictionary with "d'oh" in it.
"It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectal usage and slang."
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For multiplatform GUI applications you really need a framework. WxWindows if you want a crap framework, or Qt if you want a good one. So since you need one anyways, I don't see the benefit of Lina's method.
In the demo it shows them running a LAMP application (some email thing). This makes sense. Its similar to using VMWare to distribute applications occupied by complete operating systems that otherwise would be hard to configure.
The purpose of the run command under the Start menu is for help desk support. Assuming your talking to someone who can hear you and can spell (not always the case) its often easier to give instructions for a command line.
The users don't have to compile silly.
With something like Qt, its "write once, compile three times". Distribute binaries for Linux, OS X, Windows. All with a native look and feel, using native compilers and libraries.
Its not clear how this thing works with the GUI. Is it a new toolkit? Is it a hack of the Gtk toolkit? (I thought it was funny how the demo talks about the "native Gtk looknfeel from within what looks like KDE).
But why do they prefer state rights over individual rights?
The major ideological issue with the libertarians is that they prefer corporate rights over individual rights. They are generally just blind to the notion that corporations wield significant power that needs to be checked, in the same way government do.
I'm not an anarchist by any means, but at least they are more consistent.
Paul wants to abolish the income tax, repeal the 14th amendment in regards to creating citizenship for American born babies (which would create a whole new multi-generational class of illegal immigrants living in the shadows), supports the states right to take a way a woman's right over her own body. It always seemed odd to me when libertarians prefer state rights over individual rights...
Granted, his Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 is a fucking awesome idea, if only for being so old-school. He called 9/11 "air piracy", which it absolutely was.
If the Democrat nomination is locked up by when I vote, I might cross over and vote for Paul. There's no way he would win, but it would make the general election far more entertaining and would shape the debate in useful ways.
Hey are we forgetting about the topic here? You could provide 10gb of space to all your users.
Really I don't have any problem with ISPs providing crap email service, since no one who knows what they're doing would use ISP email (due to transferability problems). But at least admit its crap and don't blame customers when they want to keep their email online.
You assume your customers are home-bound senior citizens apparently. Otherwise its pretty ridiculious to think thunderbird is a reasonable replacement for the webmail they can access from anywhere.
I've worked at a campus help desk. When people complained about our email service (thats a bit better then parents) I would actually tell them they should just get GMail.
You sir provide a poor service to your customers.
And yes, I'm sure Google has thought of the password issue.
There isn't much for-profit piracy in the US. In China it is apparently widespread. Shops openly doing business in pirated goods, which is the foundation of the US WTO complaint.
:)
I think its all kind of ironic given how there was a lot of opposition to China joining the WTO by protectionist in the US. It may end up that the WTO is our tool to open CHina to all our awesome movies and expensive copies of Vista. And I can't think of a better thing for Linux then if China stopped pirating Windows. So go kick some ass WTO!
His point is that they aren't dominating the industry, that they'll become another post-80s IBM. And IBM is itself doing quite well, so if I was a stockholder of MS I wouldn't be too worried.
This has nothing to do with patent reform. They bought the copyright to BeOS.
Copyright does need reforming, but not for the case of technology. Copyright's should probably last only 14 years as opposed to a 70, but thats pretty damn irrelevant for software. And source code is usually under "trade secret" anyways.
Erm, by which you mean, going from being an ad company to being an ad company?
Sounds like they are still doing stuff high tech in regards to their radio advertising. There's nothing so special about the internets.
The shuttle software development process is actually famous. A textbook case of good software engineering. At least a decade ago, it spent the most per line of code of any government software contract. The development documents take up several shelfs of large binders. And it was noted for being almost entirely bug free. I doubt its a hodgepodge of different languages, though it might be I suppose. ...its amazes me that with all their planning they didn't think about a year change.
Don't worry, they've been working on machine translation since the 60s and fully automatic translation still sucks. Speech to text isn't so great either.
Language is complicated!
Um, well openoffice already had an existing codebase (in fact, a gargantuan one) from a commercial product.
I think its pretty easy to tell if someone gets struck by lightening. For one thing, the body doesn't disappear.
And assuming you live in an apartment building... it would be pretty reasonable to guess that a sewage clog was due to your neighbor using their bathroom at the ame time as a clog. Not enough for a conviction in a court of law, but certainly a conviction in the court of public opinion.
I don't understand either. I guess it isn't all Schilling's copyright. If he could just get the whole thing licensed under the CDDL I suspect there wouldn't be any problems.
Err... I was agreeing with you. o.O
Haha, thanks for this. Pressing CTRL is seriously too easy.
I seriously thought everyone just liked Joel more. Perhaps I'll be enlightened. ;)
But really, regardless of whether its Joel or Mike or has the robots or not... comedy really does need more then one person.
I think its caused they've been trying to convert Jews for ~2000 years and have failed.
I don't know if you can go and just blame the Muslims for the Hindu vs. Muslim conflict in India and Pakistan. Polytheists are able to easily just include another religions into their own, this is true. But religious conflict (whether Northern Ireland or South Asia) is usually just an an ethnic conflict in which the two ethnicities have different religions.
It takes two seconds to download putty.
The OED hardly counts as a standard dictionary with the vocab from your local English newspaper. It attempts to encompass /all/ English spoken and written anywhere. This is the dictionary with "d'oh" in it.
"It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectal usage and slang."
The point of the grandparent is that "rootkit" is a fairly old term.