Which is great, I'm getting paid to write software I'd write for free if I could afford to do so.
I love that kind of job. Though I've found it does change the focus of what I'm working on, too.
Did you just say you wrote Workbench for the Amiga?
Yeh, I quit working on it after most of the features of Workbench got picked up by the regular Amiga Desktop in 2.0... didn't see much point after I wasn't even using it any more. There was a "Workbench II" that was more of a Norton Commander clone, but I didn't have anything to do with that.
Only time I used REXX was on the Amiga. I got kind of turned off by the weird way it treated uninitialized variables, but that may have been an AREXX quirk.
Why so many people making this about drinking beer instead of about posting pictures of one's self breaking the law?
Because I'm Australian and I'm used to sane drinking laws, so it never occurred to me that it might actually be illegal for a college student to buy beer... let alone drink beer at a private party.
Surely you're joking, would they have turned away someone like Richard Feynman? for things like this:
I went to a beer party in the Nassau Tavern in Princeton. There was a gentleman, newly arrived from Europe (Herbert Jehle) who came and sat next to me. Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party. So, he sat by me and asked, "what are you doing" and so on, and I said, "I'm drinking beer." -- Nobel Prize lecture, 1965
You're most welcome. I've long thought Javascript has been a much maligned language and have sorely felt the lack of a good command line Javascript... combined with Tk, well, I look forward to what you come up with most eagerly.
No reason, other that it had never crossed my mind.
Why, then, I am answered. Goodness knows that's a common situation, there's so much out there now that nobody can keep track of it all. I only recently discovered m0n0wall, after years of building my own FreeBSD-based firewalls by hand.
Somehow, I have managed to avoid GUI work for years and years and years and years...
Me too, the last time I did major GUI work was when I wrote Workbench for the Amiga. Most since then has been in Tcl/Tk, and why that is so easy it is hardly work at all.:)
But wait, you mention REXX? I wasn't aware that was still in active use, outside the mainframe world... and surely nobody is writing GUI software on mainframes.
As for GUI, I don't really know anything about GUI development, but I'd totally be up for a collaboration if somebody wanted to do simple widgets. I was thinking of ripping apart Dialog for X (nee cdialog) and cloning that functionality someday.
There are already Tk bindings for Scheme and Perl as well as Tcl, why not implement Javascript/Tk and avoid all the heavy lifting?
Your Pocket PC isn't a closed system like the iPhone. They're patenting the application of a smartphone user interface to other kinds of phones. Or something like that.
Whatever, it's sad when a phone running a Microsoft OS is more open than one running UNIX.:p
If you want a smartphone, you should be using a Windows CE, Palm OS, or Mokia phone. The iPhone is not an open platform in any sense of the word, and all the people acting shocked about it have been in denial for over a year.
The deal is that "he liked the book" isn't "News for nerds, stuff that matters". The place for lightweight stuff is idle.slashdot.org, not the front page.
From TFA: "Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs announced that Microsoft would inject more than $150 million into Apple and take other steps to guarantee Apple's near-term survival."
From reality, this was a face-saving way for Bill Gates to close a legal settlement between Microsoft and Apple. More details:
On August 6, 1997 Steve Jobs announced that Microsoft would be investing $150 million in Apple and was committing to producing Microsoft Office for the Macintosh for at least five more years.
Q: The deal included a technology sharing agreement between the companies. What was that all about? A: The driving force in this deal was the resolution of a long-standing dispute over patents.
Q: The investment was in non-voting stock, which Microsoft was committed to holding for a minimum of three years. If the investment was a "gift" on Microsoft's part, why the three year minimum term? A: Because it wasn't a gift -- this is how the companies worked out their legal differences. Additional cash was quietly exchanged behind the scenes. How much was not disclosed.
Q: Microsoft committed to Office for the Mac for five years. If this commitment was completely voluntary, how can the five year term be explained? A: It can't be explained that way, because it wasn't voluntary. These were the agreed-upon terms.
A few of most common myths about the Microsoft-Apple deal debunked:
Myth 1: Without Microsoft's investment, Apple was doomed. Reality: Apple had lost over $1 billion in the 18 months before the investment, but in August 1997, they still had $1.2 million in cash on-hand and annual sales of around $7 billion. The $150 million investment did not "save" Apple, though arguably the positive publicity did.
Myth 2: Microsoft was acting to preserve their market for Mac Office. Reality 2: A nonsensical argument. Was the Mac's 5% market-share worth $150 million to Microsoft? If Apple went out of business, would Apple's former customers revert to yellow legal tablets and pocket calculators before they'd buy a Windows computer and Office for Windows?
Myth 3: Microsoft invested in Apple to give them "cover" in the on-going federal antitrust investigation. Reality 3: This assumes Microsoft's commitments were essential to Apple's survival. If this is so, does Microsoft's ability to issue a life or death sentence over their only competitor make them look MORE or LESS like a monopoly? In fact, within weeks of the announcement, the deal was investigated by the Department of Justice. If this move was intended to give Microsoft breathing room in the antitrust case, then it certainly didn't work. It didn't, because it wasn't.
Myth 4: This deal was a "big win" for Bill Gates. Reality 4: Apple gained at least $150 million, Microsoft's public endorsement, and a lot of positive press. What did Microsoft gain? Bill Gates appeared on a big screen at MacWorld, where he was roundly booed by the audience. They also got Apple to call MSIE the Mac's "default" browser, even though Apple would still be distributing Netscape. This fabulous deal only cost Microsoft $150 million, and then some.
Myth 5: Microsoft owns a big part of Apple. Reality 5: At the time it occurred in 1997, the $150 million investment amounted to roughly 5% of Apple's market capitalization, but was held in a special class of nonvoting shares. According to the terms of the deal, Microsoft was allowed to liquidate these shares in three years, which they've almost certainly done by now.
These are as annoying as those stupid "I AM" ads that Lotus used to run. Remember them? They had guys holding up "I AM" signs like this to try and convince you that Lotus R5 was the bridge everyone else was jumping off.
Who the hell actually liked Lotus R5? Anyone? Anyone?
Who in the hell actually likes Windows? I mean, enough to identify themselves with it?
"Hi I'm a PC, and I'm really defensive about it..."
Please don't support sites like the referenced CustomPC that use Vibrant's obtrusive hover pop-ups, until Vibrant returns the ability for end-users to opt-out of their obnoxious ads.
Um, OpenGL already has a documented extension mechanism that is widely used, by virtually every vendor, to provide documented and open access to their extensions. Changing the licensing on one implementation of the standard will not increase the fragmentation of OpenGL, and fragmentation of OpenGL has not led nVidia and ATI to drop it.
In fact... looking at the listed extensions I see 15 _ATI_ extensions and 54 _NV_ extensions.:)
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Which is great, I'm getting paid to write software I'd write for free if I could afford to do so.
I love that kind of job. Though I've found it does change the focus of what I'm working on, too.
Did you just say you wrote Workbench for the Amiga?
Yeh, I quit working on it after most of the features of Workbench got picked up by the regular Amiga Desktop in 2.0... didn't see much point after I wasn't even using it any more. There was a "Workbench II" that was more of a Norton Commander clone, but I didn't have anything to do with that.
Only time I used REXX was on the Amiga. I got kind of turned off by the weird way it treated uninitialized variables, but that may have been an AREXX quirk.
Why so many people making this about drinking beer instead of about posting pictures of one's self breaking the law?
Because I'm Australian and I'm used to sane drinking laws, so it never occurred to me that it might actually be illegal for a college student to buy beer... let alone drink beer at a private party.
Surely you're joking, would they have turned away someone like Richard Feynman? for things like this:
You're most welcome. I've long thought Javascript has been a much maligned language and have sorely felt the lack of a good command line Javascript... combined with Tk, well, I look forward to what you come up with most eagerly.
No reason, other that it had never crossed my mind.
Why, then, I am answered. Goodness knows that's a common situation, there's so much out there now that nobody can keep track of it all. I only recently discovered m0n0wall, after years of building my own FreeBSD-based firewalls by hand.
Somehow, I have managed to avoid GUI work for years and years and years and years...
Me too, the last time I did major GUI work was when I wrote Workbench for the Amiga. Most since then has been in Tcl/Tk, and why that is so easy it is hardly work at all. :)
But wait, you mention REXX? I wasn't aware that was still in active use, outside the mainframe world... and surely nobody is writing GUI software on mainframes.
As for GUI, I don't really know anything about GUI development, but I'd totally be up for a collaboration if somebody wanted to do simple widgets. I was thinking of ripping apart Dialog for X (nee cdialog) and cloning that functionality someday.
There are already Tk bindings for Scheme and Perl as well as Tcl, why not implement Javascript/Tk and avoid all the heavy lifting?
So you agree. This is not a problem.
Just be glad it's not a phone running Solaris.
Or JINI?
Your Pocket PC isn't a closed system like the iPhone. They're patenting the application of a smartphone user interface to other kinds of phones. Or something like that.
Whatever, it's sad when a phone running a Microsoft OS is more open than one running UNIX. :p
It's what you had to do to pass high school English (or equivalent), unless you got a "pity pass".
Unless Apple supplies an unlocked firmware, there's no way to unlock an iPhone without jailbreaking it, therefore jailbreaking it is legal.
In the US it is explicitly legal to unlock cellphones. Doesn't matter what the cellular carrier or manufacturer says or puts in their EULA.
Or we'll make you use a Windows CE phone instead.
If you want a smartphone, you should be using a Windows CE, Palm OS, or Mokia phone. The iPhone is not an open platform in any sense of the word, and all the people acting shocked about it have been in denial for over a year.
I think you misunderstand the meaning of the phrase "critical analysis".
I AM qmail now, but I took that photo many years ago.
Then maybe they all need to go in idle.
Here's some more disagreement: keep "idle" off the front page.
The deal is that "he liked the book" isn't "News for nerds, stuff that matters". The place for lightweight stuff is idle.slashdot.org, not the front page.
There were two licenses listed as having problems, that's only one of them.
From TFA: "Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs announced that Microsoft would inject more than $150 million into Apple and take other steps to guarantee Apple's near-term survival."
From reality, this was a face-saving way for Bill Gates to close a legal settlement between Microsoft and Apple. More details:
These are as annoying as those stupid "I AM" ads that Lotus used to run. Remember them? They had guys holding up "I AM" signs like this to try and convince you that Lotus R5 was the bridge everyone else was jumping off.
Who the hell actually liked Lotus R5? Anyone? Anyone?
Who in the hell actually likes Windows? I mean, enough to identify themselves with it?
"Hi I'm a PC, and I'm really defensive about it..."
Please don't support sites like the referenced CustomPC that use Vibrant's obtrusive hover pop-ups, until Vibrant returns the ability for end-users to opt-out of their obnoxious ads.
Um, OpenGL already has a documented extension mechanism that is widely used, by virtually every vendor, to provide documented and open access to their extensions. Changing the licensing on one implementation of the standard will not increase the fragmentation of OpenGL, and fragmentation of OpenGL has not led nVidia and ATI to drop it.
In fact... looking at the listed extensions I see 15 _ATI_ extensions and 54 _NV_ extensions. :)
The link to the GLX public license lists version 1.0 which seems to still have the problematic clauses.
0k, h0w ab0ut m0n0wall?
A book review that doesn't include any kind of critical analysis, that just summarizes the book, isn't a review.
For example, this is not a review:
Though, admittedly, that might be a useful guide as to whether you need to bother reading the work in question. :)