Dogs are unclean animals. The idea of them coming into your house and jumping all over your furniture including the bed that you sleep on every night is repugnant to a pretty significant portion of the world's population. There is definitely a market for an alternative to that.
This'll work great right up to the point where the manufacturer has to face a wrongful death suit because a car refused to use traction control because it couldn't authenticate with the customer options server for whatever reason.
This is precisely why the "or later version" clause is there. Any incompatibility is a problem of the software that was published under a modified GPL without this clause.
I am sure that their bank managers would complain about them putting more into their accounts than they were expecting and their politicians would be very upset by all of that money flowing in their economies instead of going to Bermuda
Couldn't I do the same with skype, never answer if I don't know who is calling?
Even better, you can block all calls from people who are not already on your contact list. And by setting your privacy options appropriately, you can reduce the messages you get asking to be added to your contact list to a handful of spammers a year who explicitly search for you by email or mobile phone number. Apparently not enough people do this.
It's already well studied in Japan that the significant increase in average height over the last 2 - 3 generations is entirely down to diet - specifically, increased protein intake. It isn't difficult to guess that post-war South Korea has followed post-war Japan in their dietary trends, while North Korea is going in the opposite direction with their frequent famines.
He owned the company, I would have been answering to him directly had I been offered and taken the job. But given that I would have been successful only if I'd succeeded in making up bullshit stories to answer his questions with, probably the suitable candidate could get away with ignoring him and using their skills to cover their arse later.
Are you serious? In the country that gave us companies like IBM, and Microsoft, and the internet you didn't have Computer Science as an elective in most high schools as recently as 15 years ago? Computer studies (as it was then known) was offered when I started high school in 1984, and had been for a couple of years already in every high school in my small town in New Zealand. It was however treated more like technical drawing than the main science subjects, in that the students who were pushed towards it were expected to go straight into the workforce or to trade school. The students who were expected to go to University were pushed towards the traditional science subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Calculus and Statistics instead.
Not true. It was not until later in my career that I started being asked stupid questions that had nothing to do with my expertise in interviews. Apparently, I learned later, the interviewer expected me to pull an answer out of my arse, then defend it to the death. This was for an engineering position, but his expectation was apparently that everyone who is any good's career should gravitate towards sales.
Version 2.2 was not GPLv2. It was GPLv2 with an exception that made it incompatible with the GPL. If you used Qt in a program targetting Windows, they claimed that the GPL did not apply, you had to pay Trolltech for a commercial license. It was many years before they changed this and adopted a standard GPL license.
I find the idea of opening emacs sans -nw rather heretical and pointless
Here lies the source of all your problems. You are explicitly starting Emacs without X support, then complaining that X features are not working perfectly (because they are handled by the xterm you are running emacs in, not by emcs itself). Why not just start Emacs in its own window, and turn off any newfangled features like menu and toolbars that you don't like?
It's not bad: that's what happens with mature, purpose-built tools
I'd be in agreement with you if it wasn't for the other linked post in the summary from one of bzr's ex-core developers basically saying the same thing. Actually I think open source would benefit in general from a clear winner emerging among DVCS systems, much as the way CVS did in the 1990s, and SVN looked to be doing before DVCS came along and stole its thunder before everyone had finished migrating from CVS. Focusing on one tool would simplify things for the community and improvements to that tool would come much faster.
I still can't explain why nobody has made the system clipboard interact properly with the kill ring out of the box
I think this is one of those things that falls under the category of "for some definition of properly, which may vary from your definition". Would you care to expand on what your expectation is, as recent versions work perfectly well for me. The main area of contention now is the emulation of X's primary selection mechanism (which is separate from the clipboard) on platforms that do not support it. On Windows, this used to use the clipboard, which caused valid complaints from users that merely selecting text in Emacs causes the clipboard contents to be clobbered. Now that it doesn't clobber the clipboard complaints from users that became used to pasting into other programs after merely selecting in Emacs start to come in.
Emacs is basically a counterexample to your experience. Released versions of Emacs are very stable. I haven't seen a non-development version of Emacs crash since the 1990's. And there are always new features coming along from the underlying platform that are useful additions to Emacs (if a bit late getting to Emacs). If Emacs had been declared complete at the last release, I wouldn't be able to use it to edit and manipulate files on my Android phone from my desktop. It wouldn't support filesystem notification APIs or ACLs. And looking at Emacs now, vs Emacs from 24 years ago when I first started using it, from the user's perspective it is much less complex and more reliable now than it was then. And since most of the features are a self contained lisp package, it really isn't any more complex for developers either, despite the increased functionality.
Shift Home to select back to beginning of line is built in to Emacs and enabled by default. Ctrl-X to cut is enabled by selecting "Use CUA keys (Cut/Paste with C-x/C-c/C-v)" from the Options menu. The talk about Emacs being difficult to use for beginners (especially coming from people promoting vim as an alternative) ceased being relevant 15 years ago when a bunch of keybindings was modified to fit with modern convention. Home going to beginning of line instead of beginning of buffer, F1 being bound to Help by default, Shift-Insert, Ctrl-Insert, Ctrl-Delete being given their CUA bindings by default being some of the changes from that time.
I also know of no other country which staples a special piece of paper in your passport and then removes it when you leave
Paper departure records are starting to die out and be replaced by computer records, but they were very common outside of Europe up until recently. The staple is so you don't lose it, admittedly I've only encountered that in US and Japan, most other countries just slip it into your passport.
Those who don't think contraception is morally wrong should not be held hostage by employers and the health insurance companies they choose. In this case, the rights of the employee clearly trump your perceived rights of the employer and insurance company to meddle in other people's lives.
Indeed. Going by the reports, the pressure group in New Zealand seems to total 4 people, two of whom are linked to this school. Most of their propaganda comes from snippets of research papers selectively interpreted and collated by similar groups operating in US or Canada.
Basically, it was like e-mail meets something like version control.
Basically, it was a wiki with access control and live updates. But most people were not comfortable with the fact that they might miss a change somewhere within the page, so most waves I followed had rules posted at the top that basically said "add your comments at the bottom", making it look more like a facebook comments feed.
They get a full time job contributing to the code base. That's usually how open source going to a "for-profit" (which is usually non-profit - maybe "funded" is a better word) model works.
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Dogs are unclean animals. The idea of them coming into your house and jumping all over your furniture including the bed that you sleep on every night is repugnant to a pretty significant portion of the world's population. There is definitely a market for an alternative to that.
This'll work great right up to the point where the manufacturer has to face a wrongful death suit because a car refused to use traction control because it couldn't authenticate with the customer options server for whatever reason.
This is precisely why the "or later version" clause is there. Any incompatibility is a problem of the software that was published under a modified GPL without this clause.
FTFY
Even better, you can block all calls from people who are not already on your contact list. And by setting your privacy options appropriately, you can reduce the messages you get asking to be added to your contact list to a handful of spammers a year who explicitly search for you by email or mobile phone number. Apparently not enough people do this.
But is a polpo smarter than a squid?
It's already well studied in Japan that the significant increase in average height over the last 2 - 3 generations is entirely down to diet - specifically, increased protein intake. It isn't difficult to guess that post-war South Korea has followed post-war Japan in their dietary trends, while North Korea is going in the opposite direction with their frequent famines.
He owned the company, I would have been answering to him directly had I been offered and taken the job. But given that I would have been successful only if I'd succeeded in making up bullshit stories to answer his questions with, probably the suitable candidate could get away with ignoring him and using their skills to cover their arse later.
Are you serious? In the country that gave us companies like IBM, and Microsoft, and the internet you didn't have Computer Science as an elective in most high schools as recently as 15 years ago? Computer studies (as it was then known) was offered when I started high school in 1984, and had been for a couple of years already in every high school in my small town in New Zealand. It was however treated more like technical drawing than the main science subjects, in that the students who were pushed towards it were expected to go straight into the workforce or to trade school. The students who were expected to go to University were pushed towards the traditional science subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Calculus and Statistics instead.
Not true. It was not until later in my career that I started being asked stupid questions that had nothing to do with my expertise in interviews. Apparently, I learned later, the interviewer expected me to pull an answer out of my arse, then defend it to the death. This was for an engineering position, but his expectation was apparently that everyone who is any good's career should gravitate towards sales.
Version 2.2 was not GPLv2. It was GPLv2 with an exception that made it incompatible with the GPL. If you used Qt in a program targetting Windows, they claimed that the GPL did not apply, you had to pay Trolltech for a commercial license. It was many years before they changed this and adopted a standard GPL license.
Because while getting them built overseas is hard, getting them built in the US is impossible.
Here lies the source of all your problems. You are explicitly starting Emacs without X support, then complaining that X features are not working perfectly (because they are handled by the xterm you are running emacs in, not by emcs itself). Why not just start Emacs in its own window, and turn off any newfangled features like menu and toolbars that you don't like?
I'd be in agreement with you if it wasn't for the other linked post in the summary from one of bzr's ex-core developers basically saying the same thing. Actually I think open source would benefit in general from a clear winner emerging among DVCS systems, much as the way CVS did in the 1990s, and SVN looked to be doing before DVCS came along and stole its thunder before everyone had finished migrating from CVS. Focusing on one tool would simplify things for the community and improvements to that tool would come much faster.
Be thankful. VSS was basically like RCS without branches, and first appeared on the market after everyone had already moved from RCS to CVS.
The same is possible using cppcheck or clang for C/C++, and many other checkers for other languages and file formats.
I think this is one of those things that falls under the category of "for some definition of properly, which may vary from your definition". Would you care to expand on what your expectation is, as recent versions work perfectly well for me. The main area of contention now is the emulation of X's primary selection mechanism (which is separate from the clipboard) on platforms that do not support it. On Windows, this used to use the clipboard, which caused valid complaints from users that merely selecting text in Emacs causes the clipboard contents to be clobbered. Now that it doesn't clobber the clipboard complaints from users that became used to pasting into other programs after merely selecting in Emacs start to come in.
Emacs is basically a counterexample to your experience. Released versions of Emacs are very stable. I haven't seen a non-development version of Emacs crash since the 1990's. And there are always new features coming along from the underlying platform that are useful additions to Emacs (if a bit late getting to Emacs). If Emacs had been declared complete at the last release, I wouldn't be able to use it to edit and manipulate files on my Android phone from my desktop. It wouldn't support filesystem notification APIs or ACLs. And looking at Emacs now, vs Emacs from 24 years ago when I first started using it, from the user's perspective it is much less complex and more reliable now than it was then. And since most of the features are a self contained lisp package, it really isn't any more complex for developers either, despite the increased functionality.
Shift Home to select back to beginning of line is built in to Emacs and enabled by default. Ctrl-X to cut is enabled by selecting "Use CUA keys (Cut/Paste with C-x/C-c/C-v)" from the Options menu. The talk about Emacs being difficult to use for beginners (especially coming from people promoting vim as an alternative) ceased being relevant 15 years ago when a bunch of keybindings was modified to fit with modern convention. Home going to beginning of line instead of beginning of buffer, F1 being bound to Help by default, Shift-Insert, Ctrl-Insert, Ctrl-Delete being given their CUA bindings by default being some of the changes from that time.
Paper departure records are starting to die out and be replaced by computer records, but they were very common outside of Europe up until recently. The staple is so you don't lose it, admittedly I've only encountered that in US and Japan, most other countries just slip it into your passport.
Those who don't think contraception is morally wrong should not be held hostage by employers and the health insurance companies they choose. In this case, the rights of the employee clearly trump your perceived rights of the employer and insurance company to meddle in other people's lives.
Indeed. Going by the reports, the pressure group in New Zealand seems to total 4 people, two of whom are linked to this school. Most of their propaganda comes from snippets of research papers selectively interpreted and collated by similar groups operating in US or Canada.
Basically, it was a wiki with access control and live updates. But most people were not comfortable with the fact that they might miss a change somewhere within the page, so most waves I followed had rules posted at the top that basically said "add your comments at the bottom", making it look more like a facebook comments feed.
They get a full time job contributing to the code base. That's usually how open source going to a "for-profit" (which is usually non-profit - maybe "funded" is a better word) model works.