Their articles are so well written that many people actually take them seriously.
Unfortunately, I can't compare it to disinfo at the moment, because it (disinfo) seems to have been slashdotted.
1. It's slower than a language that can be compiled into machine code (such as C/C++).
2. Interfacing to libraries written in other languages frequently requires writing wrappers.
Note: I have been using Python for over two years (since 1.5.2), and have written some extension libraries for it (mostly wrappers; see point 2 above), and applications, etc., etc., so I'm not a Pyhton-basher.
I just recognize that no language is perfect.
While I don't necessarily disagree with your implication of hypocrisy, I must point out that there is a significant difference between having to buy a new version of an app (MS, usually) and just having to recompile or download a new version of an app (GNU/Linux, usually).
You're not going back far enough.
Let's see - number of life forms that have won the lottery over the last 65 million years - less than one million.
Number of life forms killed by asteroid impacts - erm well that'd be BILLIONS (and that's UK billions, which is American trillions).
So I'd say that the odds of being killed by an asteroid are considerably higher than those of winning the lottery.
Are you sure about that?
I seem to recall that PDP-11/45's and up could support VM, but PDP-11/40's and down could not, because there were no page registers on the lower-end machines.
So I think that it would be more accurate to state that some PDP-11's could support VM.
Sigh, I should have hit preview, rather than Submit.
(Why does/. filter out < from Plain Old Text?)
The message should have been:
...
Notepad will also ignore <ESC>, rather than clearing the edit box.
(Very useful for vi(m) users like me, who accidentally hit <ESC> occasionally while typing.)
Open up Notepad and do your typing there for long posts.
Notepad will also ignore , rather than clearing the edit box.
(Very useful for vi(m) users like me, who accidentally hit ocasionally while typing.)
The second is whether there still exists differences
should be "exist differences" or "exists a difference". Telecommunications Bill and it's affect
should be "its [no apostrophe] effect". decison and penalty of telecom companies
should be perhaps "decisions of a penalty for"?
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Their articles are so well written that many people actually take them seriously. Unfortunately, I can't compare it to disinfo at the moment, because it (disinfo) seems to have been slashdotted.
1. It's slower than a language that can be compiled into machine code (such as C/C++).
2. Interfacing to libraries written in other languages frequently requires writing wrappers.
Note: I have been using Python for over two years (since 1.5.2), and have written some extension libraries for it (mostly wrappers; see point 2 above), and applications, etc., etc., so I'm not a Pyhton-basher.
I just recognize that no language is perfect.
While I don't necessarily disagree with your implication of hypocrisy, I must point out that there is a significant difference between having to buy a new version of an app (MS, usually) and just having to recompile or download a new version of an app (GNU/Linux, usually).
You're not going back far enough.
Let's see - number of life forms that have won the lottery over the last 65 million years - less than one million.
Number of life forms killed by asteroid impacts - erm well that'd be BILLIONS (and that's UK billions, which is American trillions).
So I'd say that the odds of being killed by an asteroid are considerably higher than those of winning the lottery.
Are you sure about that? I seem to recall that PDP-11/45's and up could support VM, but PDP-11/40's and down could not, because there were no page registers on the lower-end machines. So I think that it would be more accurate to state that some PDP-11's could support VM.
Hydrogen isn't a hydrocarbon, because it doesn't contain carbon.
The reaction is:
2H2 + O2 --> 2H2O (+ heat)
Sigh, I should have hit preview, rather than Submit. /. filter out < from Plain Old Text?)
(Why does
The message should have been:
...
Notepad will also ignore <ESC>, rather than clearing the edit box.
(Very useful for vi(m) users like me, who accidentally hit <ESC> occasionally while typing.)
Open up Notepad and do your typing there for long posts.
Notepad will also ignore , rather than clearing the edit box.
(Very useful for vi(m) users like me, who accidentally hit ocasionally while typing.)
The second is whether there still exists differences
should be "exist differences" or "exists a difference".
Telecommunications Bill and it's affect
should be "its [no apostrophe] effect".
decison and penalty of telecom companies
should be perhaps "decisions of a penalty for"?
Would this make Linux, et al, illegal, too?