I don't know, but you'll notice I jumped on the chance.
I've been at 'excellent' karma for so long, I didn't care if it got modded up or down.
On the other hand, it does really piss me off when someone includes fifteen links in a post, and even bothers to put http:// in front of all of them without actually making them links.
now that sucks. what the hell is the web for if not the use of 'a' tags?
for the lazy man, and introduction to the tag.
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According to Google News, this isn't the only place such things are happening. Many schools are embracing linux, this program is just another great extension of such happenings.
The group said that last week's new piracy-fighting proposal from the European Commission is "inadequate in view of the magnitude of the piracy problem and fails to introduce urgently needed measures to hold back the epidemic of counterfeiting." The group claims that in Europe, film, video, music, business and leisure software industries alone suffer losses in excess of EUR4.5 billion annually due to piracy.
But what will come if the RIAA dies? What after that? Will it manifest itself in the form of a new P2P program that monopolizes all file sharing (somehow, kinda like fileplanet) and charges ridiculous prices?
That seems highly unlikely, due to the large number of commercial interest and open-source projects focused on P2P style software.
Communism is not free since it assumes that an individual must sacrifice his freedom for the good of society.
And how is that different from capatalism? I realize you're over simplifying communism, but how is the statement 'Capatalism is not free since it assumes that an individual must sacrifice his freedom for the good of society' false? Capatalism requires us all to give up freedoms in the form of agreeing to be ruled by a government so that certain rules (that restrict freedom) can be enforced so that capatalism can work.
COM(likes) provide a good interface definition model (with inheritance)
You say that COM supports inheritance. I disagree.
According to google, the defininition of inheritance:
-programming, object-oriented- In object-oriented
programming, the ability to derive new classes from
existing classes. A derived class (or "subclass") inherits
the instance variables and methods of the "base class"
(or "superclass"), and may add new instance variables and
methods. New methods may be defined with the same names as
those in the base class, in which case they override the
original one.
I would say that COM allows you to implement a COM interface, i.e. expose a defined set of methods, variables, etc... but true inheritence is one of those things it sorely lacks.
COM objects exhibit the traditional characteristics of object technology: encapsulation, polymorphism, and even, counter to a widespread misconception, inheritance (although COM supports only interface inheritance, not inheritance of an object's actual implementation).
I guess you could argue the definition of inheritance all day, but, too me, from a practical everyday use, this is not 'inheritance' in the true OOP sense. While you can reuse a COM interface, you are still forced to rewrite the code behind the interface, even if you are just passing through to the original object you are attempting to extend.
I aggree, but what need to hapen first is good use of design patterns (Active X/Com on linux would make code easy to reuse).
Ack. ActiveX/COM on linux? Why in gods name would we want to use one of the most bastardized microsoft ideas EVER?
I'll be the first to agree with you code reuse is a very good thing, but COM is not the answer to that problem.
And yes, I have used COM. In Visual Basic and Visual C++. I've written COM objects in ATL in C++ (and VB, but everything is COM in VB). The main problem with COM is it comes close enough to being usable as to make it really frustrating.
Not to mention the way warped way you use COM objects in C++. Or threading issues. or about 4000 other thing wrong with it.
The problem is that God has left room for doubt. Even those living at the time of Jesus had the opportunity to not believe, despite the miracles he did in their presence. The fact is, if we have a 100% concrete evidence, it is no longer a matter of faith, but becomes a fact, no different from the law of gravity. This would take away our freedom to choose whether to believe he is who the Bible says he is.
This would be true if humans were perfectly logical beings. As it stands, people disbelieve fact everyday! Even if god left no reason for doubt, there would still be those who would not believe.
And even above and beyond that, if the only method of taking in god's facts was our infalliable senses, it would be still be impossible to know that facts beyond a given certainity, just as with any other facts currently held as being the truth (mainly science).
The problem is, what exactly constitues an open? A file open? A read from memory? A sleep cycle? A power off/power on cycle? A pause of reading over X minutes of time?
This sticks of something else: the ruling that called a read from a hard drive to memory a 'copy'.
I feel that this is one point where the analogy between physical and digital breaks down...
It wasn't painful, actually I thought it was hilarioius. Yo! Yo! I always think of my friend, bouncing around, very much not sober, yelling yo and laughing becuase he was also fluent in spanish, so to him he was say I I I!
Too much context for it to be funny to anyone else, I suppose.
No no no no... the missing step is make something of value! OSS can do that. The problem is extracting profit from it... if the software itself is free, then there must be a alternative, such as service and support.
Agreed... but is there any OSS project that is duplicating VBA? And if not, why not?
I've worked a lot more with VB and VBA than I care to admit, and it can be a great tool. It also isn't THAT complicated. There is the core VB engine, and then the rest is just 'references' to other things via COM. Why can't it be duplicated?
Java has a COM bridge, right? Java is also cross platform. I don't think there would be any impossible hurdles to using java to make a VB/VBA clone.
What do you think is scarier, having your chest peeled open like a book, or the alternative. As someone whose father just recently went through open heart surgery, I can say the process would be nerve racking either way.
And while the surgery is bad, the recovery is probably worse. Painful, long, and frustrating. Anything that can shorten the recovery process is a wonderful thing, IMHO.
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I don't know, but you'll notice I jumped on the chance.
I've been at 'excellent' karma for so long, I didn't care if it got modded up or down.
On the other hand, it does really piss me off when someone includes fifteen links in a post, and even bothers to put http:// in front of all of them without actually making them links.
now that sucks. what the hell is the web for if not the use of 'a' tags?
Same damn post, but I'm not so god damn lazy.
Google may be the most popular geeks' search tool, but it's not my favorite. I much prefer engines like http://www.vivisimo.com/ and http://www.teoma.com/ and even http://www.alltheweb.com/"> http://wisenut.com/ is also a really good engine and gettinng better every week. The best image finder is either http://www.ditto.com/ or http://www.picsearch.com/ If you're after music and videos, then http://www.singingfish.com is for you...Yep, back in the day, AltaVista's boolean search was the bomb...
((bra or pantry) and (thumbnail or gallery or archive))Or what ever your style of porn was back then =)
Now adays I just use autopr0n
ah, how the net has grown.
According to Google News, this isn't the only place such things are happening. Many schools are embracing linux, this program is just another great extension of such happenings.
A Google new search reveals all sorts of interesting articles, including some cases where people were busted.
And this little gem:
I'm just impressed with a big bowl of water balanced on top of a open tower case. Now THAT takes balls.
The guy obviously doesn't have cats or any other pets.
That seems highly unlikely, due to the large number of commercial interest and open-source projects focused on P2P style software.
I CAN think of some, but before going onto theory, let's just look at reality: how many freedoms are currently limited in the US?
And how is that different from capatalism? I realize you're over simplifying communism, but how is the statement 'Capatalism is not free since it assumes that an individual must sacrifice his freedom for the good of society' false? Capatalism requires us all to give up freedoms in the form of agreeing to be ruled by a government so that certain rules (that restrict freedom) can be enforced so that capatalism can work.
Eh?
Don't get to excited:
Of course, not wanting to be labelled a combatent, that's as far as I went.
Not true! I know someone who got fired for choosing oracle, then being unable to properly implement it.
You say that COM supports inheritance. I disagree.
According to google, the defininition of inheritance:
I would say that COM allows you to implement a COM interface, i.e. expose a defined set of methods, variables, etc... but true inheritence is one of those things it sorely lacks.
From http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_Intr o_ActiveX.html
I guess you could argue the definition of inheritance all day, but, too me, from a practical everyday use, this is not 'inheritance' in the true OOP sense. While you can reuse a COM interface, you are still forced to rewrite the code behind the interface, even if you are just passing through to the original object you are attempting to extend.
Ack. ActiveX/COM on linux? Why in gods name would we want to use one of the most bastardized microsoft ideas EVER?
I'll be the first to agree with you code reuse is a very good thing, but COM is not the answer to that problem.
And yes, I have used COM. In Visual Basic and Visual C++. I've written COM objects in ATL in C++ (and VB, but everything is COM in VB). The main problem with COM is it comes close enough to being usable as to make it really frustrating.
Not to mention the way warped way you use COM objects in C++. Or threading issues. or about 4000 other thing wrong with it.
It has been a few years. Maybe it is better now.
Why drink and drive when you could smoke and fly? =)
Yeah, but by who's definition of day? And, accordingly, how long is that day? And when exactly is tomorrow? =)
This would be true if humans were perfectly logical beings. As it stands, people disbelieve fact everyday! Even if god left no reason for doubt, there would still be those who would not believe.
And even above and beyond that, if the only method of taking in god's facts was our infalliable senses, it would be still be impossible to know that facts beyond a given certainity, just as with any other facts currently held as being the truth (mainly science).
We are fucked.
Enough said. I am sad.
The problem is, what exactly constitues an open? A file open? A read from memory? A sleep cycle? A power off/power on cycle? A pause of reading over X minutes of time?
This sticks of something else: the ruling that called a read from a hard drive to memory a 'copy'.
I feel that this is one point where the analogy between physical and digital breaks down...
Recursion!
Stick that in your browser history and smoke it.
Lazy man's google new link.
It wasn't painful, actually I thought it was hilarioius. Yo! Yo! I always think of my friend, bouncing around, very much not sober, yelling yo and laughing becuase he was also fluent in spanish, so to him he was say I I I!
Too much context for it to be funny to anyone else, I suppose.
Yo!, yourself, there home-slice.
No no no no... the missing step is make something of value! OSS can do that. The problem is extracting profit from it... if the software itself is free, then there must be a alternative, such as service and support.
Agreed... but is there any OSS project that is duplicating VBA? And if not, why not?
I've worked a lot more with VB and VBA than I care to admit, and it can be a great tool. It also isn't THAT complicated. There is the core VB engine, and then the rest is just 'references' to other things via COM. Why can't it be duplicated?
Java has a COM bridge, right? Java is also cross platform. I don't think there would be any impossible hurdles to using java to make a VB/VBA clone.
Thoughts? Anyone?
What do you think is scarier, having your chest peeled open like a book, or the alternative. As someone whose father just recently went through open heart surgery, I can say the process would be nerve racking either way.
And while the surgery is bad, the recovery is probably worse. Painful, long, and frustrating. Anything that can shorten the recovery process is a wonderful thing, IMHO.