You say "If you refuse to believe or acknowledge God, aren't you following a belief system?"
The simple answer is NO!!!
To acknowledge god is the same as belief.
I don't do belief. I either know, or don't know.
God is an invention of man's ego. If you place this tiny planet and its inhabitants in context with the vastness and chaos of the universe, you see that a god is not needed.
If you want to call totality 'god', go ahead, but please don't ascribe any conscious nature to it.
Note that if you get these audio books from audible.com, you will be lumbered with yet another pathetic DRM system. Derrick Story on O'Reilly already found out how restrictive it was http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/wlg/2522
Well, like I say, I'm more a functional fan. There again, I'm off on a 4 day Java course next week, so maybe it will spark my interest for OO languages.
Java's basic design is great, I've looked through it many times. What I have not seen is really cool stuff in Java that did not need a long, intimate association with the language.
Hmm. I've done DOS and much earlier operating systems. Quit the PC world once Windows came along. Got into big UNIX systems.
It's interesting to watch how languages progress. I cut my teeth on BASIC at 13, progressed to assembler and ended up doing that for a job. I've programmed many different architectures over the years, including some that most people do not see. My only conclusion from my assembler days is that there are lots of different achitectures and instruction sets. Most processors are equally easy to program.
There again, I've also written huge transaction processing systems in C. Loads of crap in shell script. Now I can think C in my head.
Nobody has managed to convince me about 'object oriented' vs 'functional' programming. I've seen just as much shit code in every language.
It is not a good idea to reinvent a language for each new wheel.
I guess it's only old farts like me that remember when the functionality was the issue instead of the language that you should implement the functionality with.
This is quite a sad article to see from someone who used to have lots of respect as a perceptive industry observer.
I've noticed over the last year or so that he seems to be missing the mark more and more often.
This particular article, centering on complete misunderstandings of the GPL and fundamental misconceptions about how the Windows and Linux kernels work and are partitioned, is his death rattle as a serious columnist.
> If I write a module for MythTV that allows me to change all the commercials in my LiveTV programming into mpegs of dancing midgets throwing pickles at a naked woman...
I tried Fedora 3 on my Dell Dimension 8200 over the weekend. Happily, USB works (it hangs up on Mandrake), but sadly, sound is broken. It works when the sound card is tested during the install, but emits only silence thereafter. The sound card is a Santa Cruz, using ALSA cs64xx driver.
All the new stuff looks great, I'd really like to have this working properly.
Mike.
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Yeah, I'm sure they will get loads of orders for this when they can't even write a sensible web shop.
Let's face it, who really wants to pay nearly 2000 bucks for an undersized, underperforming gadget that is too heavy to put in your (oversized) pocket?
I nearly died laughing when I read this. Darl appears to be losing all the marbles he had left. How can he honestly believe that starting a SCO-sponsored propaganda site can gain SCO anything. Sure there won't be any discussion forums on the site, not because they will be flooded with anti-SCO propaganda; they will be flooded with real questions that SCO can't answer.
The obvious targets for this bold statement from Novell have to be Microsoft and SCO. I can just imagine both Bill and Darl in apoplexy at reading this. Should sit well with the judge in the SCO v Novell case. Bold indeed.
Still, it does not seem to have done anything to share values in NOVL or SCOX. Did this come out after market close?
After many years of working on DOS systems using Brief as my editor, I still could not touch type.
Then I got into UNIX and one day realised that I had typed some ridiculously long "find pipe to this pipe to awk pipe to ed" command without looking at the keyboard.
I have not looked at a keyboard since. (Even worse, I have it set to US ASCII on every machine, even though I'm a Brit.)
Death to the non typists; when did you last pen-write anything?
Regardless of all the nice things you put in the office to make it a pleasant place to work, you really need to reconsider your assumption that people will be prepared to work long hours without overtime pay just because they have a nice office.
If you can't structure the work so that people have a proper balance between work and real life, you will only make people produce 'crap on time'. The creative process requires that you don't try to be creative 16 hours per day. Some of the best projects I have worked on have been those where people were kept to a standard 40 hour week.
but this guy takes the biscuit. As Groklaw has already noted, Sun appears to be working hard for Microsoft and SCO's dollars. How they expect to survive as a company is beyond me.
At USD 4.30 per share, Sun's investors don't seem to be buying the bullshit either.
If the young man in the article did not eat like a pig for most likely all of his childhood, he would never have reached 350 pounds. (350 pounds is huge, unless you have a medical problem you must eat enormous amounts of food to reach this weight.)
All this "diet a, diet b, exercise regime a, b" stuff is purely the result of people who know no bounds to their greed and gluttony.
'Hopefully', 'Probably', 'Possibly' etc are just excuses so that you can't be held responsible for saying 'These spammers are fucking stupid'.
The anti-virus allusion is all about the AV companies claiming that the virus writers are all stupid script kiddies or dumb criminals. Personally I think they are all in league with each other to make money....(joke - for the humour impaired)
Err...sorry, but did you ever look at the HTML code included in the spam you receive? In any e-mail client that loads images from HTML messages by default, some spammers are smart enough that the request for the image confirms your e-mail address without you (or the "suckers" that you complain about) lifting a finger.
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Many thanks for that, I nearly fell of my chair from laughing!
Just make sure you don't get SR after you!
You say "If you refuse to believe or acknowledge God, aren't you following a belief system?"
The simple answer is NO!!!
To acknowledge god is the same as belief.
I don't do belief. I either know, or don't know.
God is an invention of man's ego. If you place this tiny planet and its inhabitants in context with the vastness and chaos of the universe, you see that a god is not needed.
If you want to call totality 'god', go ahead, but please don't ascribe any conscious nature to it.
Note that if you get these audio books from audible.com, you will be lumbered with yet another pathetic DRM system. Derrick Story on O'Reilly already found out how restrictive it was
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/wlg/2522
Well, like I say, I'm more a functional fan. There again, I'm off on a 4 day Java course next week, so maybe it will spark my interest for OO languages.
Java's basic design is great, I've looked through it many times. What I have not seen is really cool stuff in Java that did not need a long, intimate association with the language.
But if Java fires me up, Ruby here I come!
Mike.
Hmm. I've done DOS and much earlier operating systems. Quit the PC world once Windows came along. Got into big UNIX systems.
It's interesting to watch how languages progress. I cut my teeth on BASIC at 13, progressed to assembler and ended up doing that for a job. I've programmed many different architectures over the years, including some that most people do not see. My only conclusion from my assembler days is that there are lots of different achitectures and instruction sets. Most processors are equally easy to program.
There again, I've also written huge transaction processing systems in C. Loads of crap in shell script. Now I can think C in my head.
Nobody has managed to convince me about 'object oriented' vs 'functional' programming. I've seen just as much shit code in every language.
Languages, methodologies, 'extreme programming'.
Just get the job done!
Mike.
I'd rather like to reverse your analogy:
It is not a good idea to reinvent a language for each new wheel.
I guess it's only old farts like me that remember when the functionality was the issue instead of the language that you should implement the functionality with.
Mike.
Oh shit...I'm I vi user. On all platforms. Like I say, life is much too short for yet another editor!
Ruby seems interesting, maybe once I've swallowed VB and Java, I'll get around to it.
Mike.
Anyone who wants to post reasons for why I need to learn yet another language?
Like why I need to learn another set of editor commands...?
Mike.
slashdot it!
This is quite a sad article to see from someone who used to have lots of respect as a perceptive industry observer.
I've noticed over the last year or so that he seems to be missing the mark more and more often.
This particular article, centering on complete misunderstandings of the GPL and fundamental misconceptions about how the Windows and Linux kernels work and are partitioned, is his death rattle as a serious columnist.
Goodbye from my reading list John!
I always thought that 'simultaneous warm bodies' was the fairest system...
> If I write a module for MythTV that allows me to change all the commercials in my LiveTV programming into mpegs of dancing midgets throwing pickles at a naked woman...
Oh please! Please...
Thanks for the tip, I'll try it when I get back home.
Mike.
I tried Fedora 3 on my Dell Dimension 8200 over the weekend. Happily, USB works (it hangs up on Mandrake), but sadly, sound is broken. It works when the sound card is tested during the install, but emits only silence thereafter. The sound card is a Santa Cruz, using ALSA cs64xx driver.
All the new stuff looks great, I'd really like to have this working properly.
Mike.
Yeah, I'm sure they will get loads of orders for this when they can't even write a sensible web shop.
Let's face it, who really wants to pay nearly 2000 bucks for an undersized, underperforming gadget that is too heavy to put in your (oversized) pocket?
Really...
I nearly died laughing when I read this. Darl appears to be losing all the marbles he had left. How can he honestly believe that starting a SCO-sponsored propaganda site can gain SCO anything. Sure there won't be any discussion forums on the site, not because they will be flooded with anti-SCO propaganda; they will be flooded with real questions that SCO can't answer.
I'm sure Pamela is having kittens right now!
The obvious targets for this bold statement from Novell have to be Microsoft and SCO. I can just imagine both Bill and Darl in apoplexy at reading this. Should sit well with the judge in the SCO v Novell case. Bold indeed.
Still, it does not seem to have done anything to share values in NOVL or SCOX. Did this come out after market close?
After many years of working on DOS systems using Brief as my editor, I still could not touch type.
Then I got into UNIX and one day realised that I had typed some ridiculously long "find pipe to this pipe to awk pipe to ed" command without looking at the keyboard.
I have not looked at a keyboard since. (Even worse, I have it set to US ASCII on every machine, even though I'm a Brit.)
Death to the non typists; when did you last pen-write anything?
Would the "Christian Science Monitor" really have an "interesting article"...?
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Please dear editors; no religious junk on
Regardless of all the nice things you put in the office to make it a pleasant place to work, you really need to reconsider your assumption that people will be prepared to work long hours without overtime pay just because they have a nice office.
If you can't structure the work so that people have a proper balance between work and real life, you will only make people produce 'crap on time'. The creative process requires that you don't try to be creative 16 hours per day. Some of the best projects I have worked on have been those where people were kept to a standard 40 hour week.
but this guy takes the biscuit. As Groklaw has already noted, Sun appears to be working hard for Microsoft and SCO's dollars. How they expect to survive as a company is beyond me.
At USD 4.30 per share, Sun's investors don't seem to be buying the bullshit either.
If the young man in the article did not eat like a pig for most likely all of his childhood, he would never have reached 350 pounds. (350 pounds is huge, unless you have a medical problem you must eat enormous amounts of food to reach this weight.)
All this "diet a, diet b, exercise regime a, b" stuff is purely the result of people who know no bounds to their greed and gluttony.
350 pounds is 160Kg for heaven's sake! At 19!!
Get a good filter. SpamAssassin works really well once trained with my spam and my ham. It lets through less than 5% of real spam.
If you get too much spam, stop publishing your e-mail address.
You are a lawyer and I claim my $5 prize!
'Hopefully', 'Probably', 'Possibly' etc are just excuses so that you can't be held responsible for saying 'These spammers are fucking stupid'.
The anti-virus allusion is all about the AV companies claiming that the virus writers are all stupid script kiddies or dumb criminals. Personally I think they are all in league with each other to make money....(joke - for the humour impaired)
Err...sorry, but did you ever look at the HTML code included in the spam you receive? In any e-mail client that loads images from HTML messages by default, some spammers are smart enough that the request for the image confirms your e-mail address without you (or the "suckers" that you complain about) lifting a finger.