"The people want answers. They don't care if they're wrong answers, they want them just the same."
Another challenge for people's "belief" in science mentioned in Carl Sagan's excellent book The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark is that science is often wrong. Science is self-correcting, but that can undermine naive people's confidence in science. "If science was wrong before, what is stopping it from being wrong again?" They don't want a system that is slowly improving itself, that doesn't try to promise to answer more than it can rationally understand. They just wants the "truth", real answers.
If you like crass puppets, you definitely should check out Meet the Feebles by Peter Jackson (yes, that Peter Jackson). The Feebles are the Muppets on drugs.
Whenever a new release of Debian approaches, there are always people wanting it sooner and people wanting it later (so the very latest version of their favorite package can be included). Because Debian is released so infrequently, people fear they will be stuck with old software. As suggested, if Debian released every six months, like clockwork (and FreeBSD), then both parties would be satisified. There is always a new version just a few months away, so there is no need to worry if your favorite package didn't make it in this release. If Debian does not drop its "cathedral" developlment approach for shorter incremental developmenet.. well, we'll see ya'll in 2004 when a Debian stable released finally includes KDE 3.0, Gnome 2.0, and Mozilla 1.0.
Replace it with: std::vector bufmem(n); char* buffer = &(bufmem.front()); //...
uh, sounds like you need an auto_ptr for arrays. I don't think the STL std::auto_ptr does not work for arrays, but the Boost libraries have a nice scoped_array for arrays.
Our company has to switch between two different implementations to compile between MSVC for a Win32-based build and MS Embedded C++ for a WinCE-based build.
Instead of hacking around with two different Microsoft STL implementations, why not standardize on the cross-platform, open-source STLport? It is very complete and has helpful runtime assertions. My only complaint is that debugging STLport is difficult because of its impenetrable naming conventions..
For info on old Sun hardware, check out Obsolyte.com. I just set up a home firewall with a tiny SparcStation IPX. Not the most high performance server, but it's fun, ya know.:) There's lots of Sun hardware on ebay, but some of it seems overpriced.
Still, the average price of a book here in the netherlands is E 12.95 (according to a recent article in the paper) whereas the average CD, with higher sales and lower costs for production is almost twice that??)
He meant that with billion$ in the bank, Microsoft makes lots of money from their financial investments. Hell, they could stop selling software and just start a huge investment fund..;)
In the Bay Area, when KSOL became Wild 107 (now Wild 94.9?), they suddenly and mysteriously played a 24-hour continuous loop of Tone Loc's Wild Thing. Man, that was sweet. I taped about two hours.:)
You bring up a good point. Is it legal to debug a GPL program using NuMega BoundsChecker or Rational Purify? These programs are modifying (quasi-linking) the GPL binary..
When was the last release of Quark? They seem to wait like 3-5 years between major releases, leaving their users frustrated with stale, buggy software. I think this is why people are so eager to adopt something new like Adobe's InDesign.
Why do geeks and especially graduate students insist on refering to themselves by their three initials, such as the article's author mpt (Matthew Thomas)? My theory is that they are vain and pretentious. To assume that THEY ALONE would be uniquely identified by some three letter abbreviation is quite an assumption of their self-importance..
but how does SimpleFace MAKE MONEY FAST? Open source projects are not going to pay money to use SimpleFace's UI recommendations or testing. Corporations already have people trained in Microsoft Office and can always find more in the want ads. They do not want to invest extra time/money to retrain all of their employees on SimpleFace's software.
People should be asking lots of questions about Mac OS X's success. How did Apple, a non-Unix company, give Unix a facelift and become the top selling Unix ever? Why was the Unix community incapapble improving its UI itself? There is a huge cultural difference. I think Mac OS X is popular mostly because it runs Mac apps without crashing, not because it runs Unix apps!
If we could somehow create a 99.9% functional VBScript parser for Apache, then Apache could swallow up a very large bunch of IIS users in one quick bite.
If someone wrote a GPL'd VBScript interpreter, I wonder what Microsoft would do. That would be a huge affront to IIS lock-in and a big win for Apache! Perhaps Microsoft has some VBScript patent to protect their proprietary language..?
Did you read the entire article? There was a link near the end that said "Click here for the test results" and it pointed directly to some nice graphs.
good point. For example, is Apache 2.0 on Windows vulnerable to the::$DATA filename bug? That bug was not an IIS bug as much as a stupid "feature" of NTFS, so it could also affect Apache!
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"The people want answers. They don't care if they're wrong answers, they want them just the same."
Another challenge for people's "belief" in science mentioned in Carl Sagan's excellent book The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark is that science is often wrong. Science is self-correcting, but that can undermine naive people's confidence in science. "If science was wrong before, what is stopping it from being wrong again?" They don't want a system that is slowly improving itself, that doesn't try to promise to answer more than it can rationally understand. They just wants the "truth", real answers.
In which country did you go to school? Here in America, we teach kids about Creationim, Ebonics, Consumerism, and high-school shootings.
If you like crass puppets, you definitely should check out Meet the Feebles by Peter Jackson (yes, that Peter Jackson). The Feebles are the Muppets on drugs.
Whenever a new release of Debian approaches, there are always people wanting it sooner and people wanting it later (so the very latest version of their favorite package can be included). Because Debian is released so infrequently, people fear they will be stuck with old software. As suggested, if Debian released every six months, like clockwork (and FreeBSD), then both parties would be satisified. There is always a new version just a few months away, so there is no need to worry if your favorite package didn't make it in this release. If Debian does not drop its "cathedral" developlment approach for shorter incremental developmenet.. well, we'll see ya'll in 2004 when a Debian stable released finally includes KDE 3.0, Gnome 2.0, and Mozilla 1.0.
I wonder how much of a Pay-Cut managment is taking ?
Their management should take a lesson from Steve Jobs and work for $1 per year.
Standard Template Library.
Replace it with:
std::vector bufmem(n);
char* buffer = &(bufmem.front());
//...
uh, sounds like you need an auto_ptr for arrays. I don't think the STL std::auto_ptr does not work for arrays, but the Boost libraries have a nice scoped_array for arrays.
Our company has to switch between two different implementations to compile between MSVC for a Win32-based build and MS Embedded C++ for a WinCE-based build.
Instead of hacking around with two different Microsoft STL implementations, why not standardize on the cross-platform, open-source STLport? It is very complete and has helpful runtime assertions. My only complaint is that debugging STLport is difficult because of its impenetrable naming conventions..
For info on old Sun hardware, check out Obsolyte.com. I just set up a home firewall with a tiny SparcStation IPX. Not the most high performance server, but it's fun, ya know.
Still, the average price of a book here in the netherlands is E 12.95 (according to a recent article in the paper) whereas the average CD, with higher sales and lower costs for production is almost twice that??)
higher sales = higher demand = higher price
He meant that with billion$ in the bank, Microsoft makes lots of money from their financial investments. Hell, they could stop selling software and just start a huge investment fund..
In the Bay Area, when KSOL became Wild 107 (now Wild 94.9?), they suddenly and mysteriously played a 24-hour continuous loop of Tone Loc's Wild Thing. Man, that was sweet. I taped about two hours. :)
We don't need to worry much about Rad Light if that few of people have paid to register their software! ;-)
"Rest assured, I was on the Internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world."
where is that quote from? it sound very familiar.
You bring up a good point. Is it legal to debug a GPL program using NuMega BoundsChecker or Rational Purify? These programs are modifying (quasi-linking) the GPL binary..
Women encrypt with a one-time pad. Then they throw away the pad.
this is true. women use a new pad each month.
what is Sub7?
Netscape, Oracle, Intel, Sun, and Everyone but Microsoft.
When was the last release of Quark? They seem to wait like 3-5 years between major releases, leaving their users frustrated with stale, buggy software. I think this is why people are so eager to adopt something new like Adobe's InDesign.
Why do geeks and especially graduate students insist on refering to themselves by their three initials, such as the article's author mpt (Matthew Thomas)? My theory is that they are vain and pretentious. To assume that THEY ALONE would be uniquely identified by some three letter abbreviation is quite an assumption of their self-importance..
Windows has had single-click file opening since IE4.
but how does SimpleFace MAKE MONEY FAST? Open source projects are not going to pay money to use SimpleFace's UI recommendations or testing. Corporations already have people trained in Microsoft Office and can always find more in the want ads. They do not want to invest extra time/money to retrain all of their employees on SimpleFace's software.
People should be asking lots of questions about Mac OS X's success. How did Apple, a non-Unix company, give Unix a facelift and become the top selling Unix ever? Why was the Unix community incapapble improving its UI itself? There is a huge cultural difference. I think Mac OS X is popular mostly because it runs Mac apps without crashing, not because it runs Unix apps!
If we could somehow create a 99.9% functional VBScript parser for Apache, then Apache could swallow up a very large bunch of IIS users in one quick bite.
If someone wrote a GPL'd VBScript interpreter, I wonder what Microsoft would do. That would be a huge affront to IIS lock-in and a big win for Apache! Perhaps Microsoft has some VBScript patent to protect their proprietary language..?
Did you read the entire article? There was a link near the end that said "Click here for the test results" and it pointed directly to some nice graphs.
good point. For example, is Apache 2.0 on Windows vulnerable to the