It's about time OSS developers switch to an Object-Oriented language with a sound typesystem, a sensible implementation of multiple inheritance, a non-broken collections library, a reasonable threading model, and, last but not least, with multiple implementations of an open standard driven by an independent body.
The 17-year cicadas appear, well, once in 17 years. 13-year cicadas appear once in 13 years. Note that there are no 14,- 15,- or 16-year cicadas. Why are the periods prime? YAWN (Yet Another Wonder of Nature), yo!
XFree86 does NOT require me to do anything w.r.t. GNOME, for the simple reason that I DON'T FUCKING DISTRIBUTE XFREE86 AS A PART OF GNOME. I distribute GNOME source and binaries only, and that under pure unadulterated GPL. I may or may not distribute XFree separately under its own license. But GNOME sources and binaries DO NOT FUCKING CONTAIN ANY XFREE86 CODE.
But they are linked together!
So fucking what? GNOME still doesn't contain any XFree code. But let's pretend I'm wrong. What are the consequences? Suppose you make a three line GNOME applet. Can you distribute the binaries? If your applet indeed "contains" GNOME inside, then you can only distribute it together with the entirety of GNOME. Good luck.
But GNOME is itself GPLed!
So fucking what? Nowhere does the GPL say "...unless those parts of your program that you don't distribute are themselves licensed under the GPL and are freely downloadable from teh Intarweb".
It's amazing how supposedly intelligent developers can't parse a short stretch of mostly plain English that is the GPL.
What fucking restrictions do I fucking impose on the fucking recipient? He has all the same rights I have. I give him the source of the entire program (GNOME) as GPL requires, the license to redistribute that source, blah blah. What else?
Quite why the FUCK people think that I can't dynamically link a GPLed program against absolutely anything and distribute the result? Please quote the exact clause(s) of the GPL that would prohibit me from distributing (say) Gnome linked against (say) Xfree86 4.4.
Note: I said "quote". That means you have to at least attempt to read the GPL before you answer.
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how much energy is needed to snatch an asteroid from its orbit? Just curious.
you need a C and two Os first. Where do you propose we should get them? Transport from Earth?
Why won't you buy a fucking ad and be done with it?
one reputable source of information about non-English programming languages.
But it's not dialup-friendly.
Get the latest X and KDE releases and be happy.
(and English, I might add): THE SERVICE IS NOT AVAILABLE YET. Don't try to find the subscription link. It's not there.
I've spent entirely too much time on c.l.e and don't want to repeat all that argumentation again. Google has the archives, study them if you like.
In short, a language which is not Eiffel.
The 17-year cicadas appear, well, once in 17 years. 13-year cicadas appear once in 13 years. Note that there are no 14,- 15,- or 16-year cicadas. Why are the periods prime? YAWN (Yet Another Wonder of Nature), yo!
No, wait...
Really. Try this one: http://www.nomaware.com/monads/html/index.html
But they are linked together!
So fucking what? GNOME still doesn't contain any XFree code. But let's pretend I'm wrong. What are the consequences? Suppose you make a three line GNOME applet. Can you distribute the binaries? If your applet indeed "contains" GNOME inside, then you can only distribute it together with the entirety of GNOME. Good luck.
But GNOME is itself GPLed!
So fucking what? Nowhere does the GPL say "...unless those parts of your program that you don't distribute are themselves licensed under the GPL and are freely downloadable from teh Intarweb".It's amazing how supposedly intelligent developers can't parse a short stretch of mostly plain English that is the GPL.
What fucking restrictions do I fucking impose on the fucking recipient? He has all the same rights I have. I give him the source of the entire program (GNOME) as GPL requires, the license to redistribute that source, blah blah. What else?
Note: I said "quote". That means you have to at least attempt to read the GPL before you answer.
If DRM will ever live, it'll be on hardware level.
you probably can manage.
You just can't compare. With all due respect, Moon is 1.5 light-seconds away, while Mars is 20 light-minutes or so.
Why MS keeps not one but two R&D centres in Israel? What are they doing there? Developing optical mice?
isn't very likely to go at c. 0.0001c is more realistic :)
If we send a probe now, in the next X years we'll be able to send a better probe. It will go faster and arrive sooner than the first one.
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In 100 years time we will know the answer :)
It wants its stuff back.
Yes, but once you have Arabic support, adding Hebrew is a piece of cake. Arabic userbase is large and growing.
Graphic artists almost exclusively use Macs, even here. I've seen some used in the Technion, but that was a while back.