Python fans say that the obnoxious whitespace handling of Python is a minor thing to have to put up with, but with Ruby around I don't have to put up with it. Or the ugly __underscores.
A more appropriate flavor for Milli Vanilli would be sauerkraut, for Frank Farian, since it was one of his many front projects. He's better known for Boney M, which is probably the way he'd want it...
Yes, well, as you'll see from the ruby-core thread I linked to, I'm on your side. I don't get why anyone would even want to use String objects for binary processing rather than something actually suited to the task, but I thought I'd at least offer a possible compromise... let the language move forward with Unicode Strings, but have a SimpleString that was Unicode-unaware that you could pretend was a binary vector, for people who insist on it.
Labour and Conservatives will both fuck the UK. There's only one possible way out, which is to fix the broken electoral system. The question is how bad things have to get before people take that option.
If you believe the Conservatives would save you, you're a fucking idiot with no memory of the 1990s.
Who instituted the Official Secrets Act provisions where people could be tried for a crime without even being told what the crime was? Where it became illegal for people involved in intelligence or security to speak publically, with no public interest defense possible?
Who initiated overt media censorship via the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1989? Who made it possible to arrest people for merely belonging to an organization, destroying freedom of association?
Who introduced the Public Order Act, controlling who could protest, when and how, in direct contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights? Who turned Downing Street into a gated community so people couldn't protest there?
You haven't got a democracy in the UK. You have First Past the Post. It doesn't matter who you vote for. Your vote won't get counted. Fuck that for a system.
Right. Problem #1 for both the UK and the US is fixing the bent electoral system. Until you fix that, you won't get any substantial change.
One thing I didn't here many people talking about is how the Wii lack of power will cause people to stop porting to it.
That'll change pretty quickly unless Sony manages to start selling PS3s.
The video game industry has basically been caught out. Everyone expected the PS3 to sell like crazy, and promptly geared up to make next-gen games for PS3 and Xbox 360. Unfortunately for them, if you look at the sales charts the biggest selling consoles are the PS2, Wii and Xbox 360--and the Wii was no doubt in #2 position simply because none of the stores can keep them in stock. Game sales show the same trend. If that doesn't change soon, developers will start writing for PS2 and Wii, and telling PS3 owners they can run the game in back-compatibility mode.
Think about it: next gen dev costs are, what, 8x higher than last gen? Which would you prefer, to spend 8x more and reach 20% of the market in HD, or spend what you used to and reach 80% of the market in SD?
What's up is that there's massive disagreement on whether Ruby's standard strings and characters should become Unicode. There are quite a few people used to the old world where a string was interchangeable with a vector of 8 bit bytes, and they don't want to let go. To add to the problems, Unicode is controversial in Japan. So, expect Unicode to continue to be painful and inconsistent in Ruby even after the next major release.
OpenOffice.org and MS Office's HTML output is garbled and insane.
Nonsense. I've been using OpenOffice.org Writer/Web to write HTML documents, and apart from the upper case element names they're perfectly good HTML 4.01 transitional. Even gets paragraphs right, which most HTML editors don't.
Now, if you take a document that wasn't written to be translatable to the web and try to translate it to HTML, you'll get a mess... but that's the case with LaTeX too, just try anything multicolumn with marginal hacks and boxes.
The extensive code fixes that the Y2K bug required simply aren't necessary here.
I wouldn't bet on it. Reading The Daily WTF? has taught me that just because there's a perfectly good standard library call to do something, doesn't mean that some hack won't write his own broken implementation and embed it in a piece of software.
There's also the issue of firmware that has US DST changeovers programmed in. Like many wristwatches, for example.
On the contrary, the TiVo DRM is applied to the contents of the initrd and bash. If they aren't able to DRM the initrd and shell, that blows a hole in their DRM immediately. So they'll be faced with either forking bash and all the other tools in the initrd, or letting us use GPL software as the authors intended.
The situation is even more interesting considering that the proprietary ATI drivers [...] don't support Composite with AIGLX, the default in Ubuntu and X.org, while the reverse-engineered open source driver does.
Oh, it's worse than that. On the FireGL T2, the ATI drivers don't even work properly; Second Life fails with a ton of texture allocation errors, and eventually the system locks up. The open source drivers at least work, even if they're slow.
(*Makes mental note to avoid ATI crap in future machines.*)
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I learned Perl back before Ruby was usable.
I wouldn't bother to learn Perl now.
Try Ruby.
Python fans say that the obnoxious whitespace handling of Python is a minor thing to have to put up with, but with Ruby around I don't have to put up with it. Or the ugly __underscores.
A more appropriate flavor for Milli Vanilli would be sauerkraut, for Frank Farian, since it was one of his many front projects. He's better known for Boney M, which is probably the way he'd want it...
Yes, well, as you'll see from the ruby-core thread I linked to, I'm on your side. I don't get why anyone would even want to use String objects for binary processing rather than something actually suited to the task, but I thought I'd at least offer a possible compromise... let the language move forward with Unicode Strings, but have a SimpleString that was Unicode-unaware that you could pretend was a binary vector, for people who insist on it.
Labour and Conservatives will both fuck the UK. There's only one possible way out, which is to fix the broken electoral system. The question is how bad things have to get before people take that option.
Myth. Since 2001, Americans work longer hours than the Japanese.
If you believe the Conservatives would save you, you're a fucking idiot with no memory of the 1990s.
Who instituted the Official Secrets Act provisions where people could be tried for a crime without even being told what the crime was? Where it became illegal for people involved in intelligence or security to speak publically, with no public interest defense possible?
Who initiated overt media censorship via the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1989? Who made it possible to arrest people for merely belonging to an organization, destroying freedom of association?
Who introduced the Public Order Act, controlling who could protest, when and how, in direct contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights? Who turned Downing Street into a gated community so people couldn't protest there?
Right. Problem #1 for both the UK and the US is fixing the bent electoral system. Until you fix that, you won't get any substantial change.
That'll change pretty quickly unless Sony manages to start selling PS3s.
The video game industry has basically been caught out. Everyone expected the PS3 to sell like crazy, and promptly geared up to make next-gen games for PS3 and Xbox 360. Unfortunately for them, if you look at the sales charts the biggest selling consoles are the PS2, Wii and Xbox 360--and the Wii was no doubt in #2 position simply because none of the stores can keep them in stock. Game sales show the same trend. If that doesn't change soon, developers will start writing for PS2 and Wii, and telling PS3 owners they can run the game in back-compatibility mode.
Think about it: next gen dev costs are, what, 8x higher than last gen? Which would you prefer, to spend 8x more and reach 20% of the market in HD, or spend what you used to and reach 80% of the market in SD?
What's up is that there's massive disagreement on whether Ruby's standard strings and characters should become Unicode. There are quite a few people used to the old world where a string was interchangeable with a vector of 8 bit bytes, and they don't want to let go. To add to the problems, Unicode is controversial in Japan. So, expect Unicode to continue to be painful and inconsistent in Ruby even after the next major release.
Have you ever actually used commercial Linux software? I have.
IBM DB2 is commercial Linux software. Guess what? It comes in RPM files. There's a handy GUI installer that installs the RPMs.
There's no reason why the same thing couldn't be done with .deb files.
So current package managers support commercial and proprietary software just fine.
Nonsense. I've been using OpenOffice.org Writer/Web to write HTML documents, and apart from the upper case element names they're perfectly good HTML 4.01 transitional. Even gets paragraphs right, which most HTML editors don't.
Now, if you take a document that wasn't written to be translatable to the web and try to translate it to HTML, you'll get a mess... but that's the case with LaTeX too, just try anything multicolumn with marginal hacks and boxes.
I stuck my Designed for Windows sticker on the toilet.
I just bought one; comments on my web site if you're interested.
I wouldn't bet on it. Reading The Daily WTF? has taught me that just because there's a perfectly good standard library call to do something, doesn't mean that some hack won't write his own broken implementation and embed it in a piece of software.
There's also the issue of firmware that has US DST changeovers programmed in. Like many wristwatches, for example.
On the contrary, the TiVo DRM is applied to the contents of the initrd and bash. If they aren't able to DRM the initrd and shell, that blows a hole in their DRM immediately. So they'll be faced with either forking bash and all the other tools in the initrd, or letting us use GPL software as the authors intended.
Oh, it's worse than that. On the FireGL T2, the ATI drivers don't even work properly; Second Life fails with a ton of texture allocation errors, and eventually the system locks up. The open source drivers at least work, even if they're slow.
(*Makes mental note to avoid ATI crap in future machines.*)
Everything sucks. It's all a matter of tradeoffs and choosing which aspects you'd rather have suck.
The major feature of R5 was a massive overhaul of the UI.
Here's a short list of some of the open standards supported by Notes and Domino:
SMTP. IMAP. HTTP. HTTPS. Java. HTML. XML. SOAP. NNTP. CORBA. X.509. LDAP. SAX. DOM. ODBC. SQL.
That's why Notes and Domino can be considered open. The new Notes even more so, as it's build on Java and Eclipse.
Yeah, it's a real mystery. If the Linux community had any sense, they'd unite behind GNUStep... or at least kill Gnome and keep Linux Mono-free.
Buy.com started out as spammers; the first I ever heard of them was some spam. It's no surprise to hear that they haven't changed much.
bleep.com.
somarecords.com.
It'll be a cold day in hell before Jobs allows Dell to sell Macs, after Dell's public advice to Apple...