I take a different approach. If we have a mono-culture of software development tools, then we all can participate in advancing computing as a whole, and not worry about factions (i.e. platforms)
Thus far, every software platform has been factioned from the start: C/C++ & POSIX - was good but required POSIX compliance, never fully achieved, notably by MS..Net - MS only. Mono is a 2nd rate knock off. C++/CLI is a joke. Really you'r looking at C# and VB Java - was only recently open-sourced. Limited "official" JVMs
Now we have a completely platform agnostic (You want it on a PC, Mac, Linux, and your phone!? No problem) way to make advanced apps using any C++ compiler.
This is about bringing software development together (Oh, you want GNUCash on your phone!?!)
The goal of yours to eliminate closed-source commercial software isn't even a noble goal. But you've come to desire that through use of bad commercial software. The fact is, some people, like me need to sell software to put food on the table. The better engineering and implementation I do, the harder it is to sell support.
Re:It's good news, but is it too late?
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Qt Becomes LGPL
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Qt has various bindings to other languages like Qyoto(C#) and Python
Re:Comparison to WPF or other non stone-age tools?
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Qt Becomes LGPL
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You don't need to know C#
You can use the Kyoto bindings if you want C#
You can use the Binding Generator so you can use Qt in ECMA (Java)Script.
WPF doesn't exist... Designer can make a XML file that is used on all platforms, but I don't know what you're getting at. CSS steps in to provide theming.
I wouldn't say "'torture' with crossplatformity" You never really think about it. It just works. The details are hidden, so you never think about it.
Swing was coupled to Java. A slow, unknown language with wonky GUI elements. Qt draws everythign as natiivce controls and supports skinning via CSS.
The objections of the world are just that. They are in shacks, eating raw organic foods (if any at all).
The US's energy consumption per capita is through the roof. There is an idea that there has to be curve of diminishing returns where your energy use to work and sleep in a house tops out.
I don't know what Mr. Gore is running to produce a bill like that. It is obscene, even for an American.
Well you see, RIC is down the street, on the left.
CCRI is down the street and on he right.
URI is right here.
Seriously.
My friends and I and I were on a road trip in RI, to see Ms Teen RI, who they'd met on a cruise (before being awarded the title, before college). My friend and I went to pick up the other friend from Worcester P.I., and decided to stop by her place and hang out. We got lost, and asked come cop for directions. It turned out we were in the exact opposite corner of the state. Three turns and 20 minutes later, we rolled up at her house.
My social coexistence was a negative influence on my GPA. It was however good for my BAC.
Besides being comp sci during windows 3.1 days meant we were in the labs every spare moment because the SGI boxes didn't have a 640k barrier.
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Using Drupal
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It would be more than sufficient to show several sites, with various layouts and allow the reader to select one, or elements from several, and see the steps which made the site or element. This would vastly increase confidence and shorten time to deploy.
Assembly is highly structured, yet I'd like to see you write a CMS in it.
C is highly structured (no pun intended) yet I'd like to see you write a CMS in it.
Really, the only thing you are partially right on is libraries. But I think you are right for the wrong reason. The libraries carry what the language is intended for. For Python, it is simplicity in everything. For PHP, its a hacked-together scripting languages for websites.
But all these languages have interfaces, be it an H file or an abstract base class. This is where structure is enforced. Being that all languages have essentially the same interface capability, I am left to conclude it is not the language.
However, I do believe that something can be related between the software and the language. I think it comes down to what languages the programmer is attracted to. For instance, I loved Perl until I found PHP. I loved PHP until I found Python. It seems that the language selected has to do about the maturity (experience) of the developer. The more mature the developer, the better (smoother) the implementation will be. (This does not mean that they won't have highly structured code, they probably will, but design is the smaller part of implementation.)
I'm really surprised that I am contradicting someone with a 4-digit UID.
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Using Drupal
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Implementation languages seldom affect what can be developed. I could write a crappy CMS in Python, or C, or RoR, or Perl. The problem is the data and how it is structured. Usually its an interface issue. And that is a design/coding issue issue. Not because my if require {} or:\n\t
What I need is an end-user guide
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Using Drupal
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I've read a couple books, but I still don't know how to use it. All the books I read thus far spent 1/2 the time on installing it, which should only be a chapter. The rest of the time, they talk about "nodes" which is too abstract a concept for my friend Prudence, who runs a counseling website to grasp.
What we really need is a guide on "do this to make a menu", "do this to make a blog", "do this to enter the blog article", do this..., etc. I really have no idea to layout a site and get what I want. So there Drupal sits, well-installed, but doing nothing. Because that's what the books covered.
I've been surprised how similar hardware for PCs and servers has been over the years. Lets face it, if you can't get your job done on a cheap PC today, you have some computational tasks that would benefit from high-end hardware, or, can be paralleled. given that parallelism is achieved over networks, you now have a new problem.
Also, given that companies have money and people don't, I am surprised this dichotomy has not already developed - that all apps are compatible, but commercial grade hardware is so much more expensive and faster.
I was watching a Ravens regular season game (I think) and for a couple seconds we had the view of the computer's field: black background colored lines. I realized that indeed, there was a digital 3D field that was lined up to match the camera's view. After that, it is a simple matter of using the actual camera as a player in a game with pan and tilt of the actual camera to match the virtual camera. Then, its just a projection of a line with color keying in the composite video.
Well I should have "in space" to the first question. Look at it this way: if you go up, you have to deal with radiation, lack of gravity, lack of resources to expand populations, the initial population will be limited, and will have to be managed (growth wise) We'll be dependent on many, many technologies.
If we go all Matrix and underground, we only need much simpler technologies, less radiation, and we'll have our beloved gravity.
If you want to save humanity, dig a hole, don't plan to live some where you didn't evolve...
Why do you think that saving the species is a good idea?
Why do you think UP is the answer, when DOWN provides a much more affordable, immediate and suitable environment? (Subterranean living) Sure DIRT is boring. But its cheap!
The government has no money. Not with a $1T deficit.
When you borrow the $100 now, you have to pay interest on that to the FED, which is not Federal. In order to cover the interest, you need to print money. So then you have inflation. For example a $100,000 mortgage for 30 years comes out to cost another $198,000 in interest.
So for every dollar spent, we have to print 2 more in the next 30 years.
A real stimulus package would be to take the value of all the stimuli to date and divide it by the number of people in the country, and give it to them. The last time I did that (a month ago) I got a number of $13,000 per PERSON in the US. Imagine if we gave everyone that kind of money. people would pay off debt, spend or save the rest, liquidity would be restored, and happiness for all.
Instead, our government continues to reinforce and reward their friends and their contributors.
The article for the wind energy is eluding me at the moment. But the chart in the link you provided shows maybe a 2x energy profit. The question then, is what is the cost of the energy? If we're using coal plants to make the windmills, then we're being counterproductive aren't we?
I read the other day at discovery channel of all places, of how feasible it would be for terrorists to use infected blood-sucking insects to attack non-muslim populations.
When will we stop dreaming this stuff up? Eventually the report discredited it as a viable infection method, but still, why GIVE THEM IDEAS? Of course, because the possibility is non-zero, we need to spend millions on preparedness and additional studies...
Where Milo is talking to the Gates analog. Gates pursuades Milo to the dark side away from open source because of people getting rich off other people's ideas.
I always looked at it as "great, my ideas will make the world a better place, any theft of them only advances my agenda". And as a Buddhist, I am really into that.
But then I'm also a realist. But only if I can gain from my ideas, can I support myself and my family. True Buddhists are ok begging. I am not. So there is some level of greed that enters in - you don't have to want more than reliable shelter and food, but it is there. The problem is, the multimillion dollar universities will not contribute to your shelter or food supply if you let them steal your ideas.
Lets face it, while information should be free, we need to still survive, pay our bills, and advance our own agendas.
Windfarms are only profitable with government subsidy; wind mills cost more energy than they make in there serviceable lifetime (Hence the need for subsidy). Bad for bat populations, which are already in decline.
Solar panels are fantastically bad environmentally. They require the production of green house gasses far worse than CO2, lifetimes are limited and exponentially decay. They require toxic batteries to work, and are unreliable due to weather. 14% efficiency. Also, bad for ground-level wildlife.
The only real alternatives are:
Solar algae (2-4% efficient)
Geo-thermal (limited places)
Wave/tidal (possible local environmental impacts, high maintenance costs)
Nuclear (low risk, high output, radioactive half-lives are down to 200 years)
Those are listed from worst to best in terms of available output.
There is a saying from the old sailing days. "Never set sail with two compasses". One is ok, three is better. But never two. The paralysis from not knowing which is right is far worse than being wrong and correcting later.
Actually I saw a report on Florida's ballot irregularities. There is a case to be made that the paper ballots were manipulated - different grade paper was used which was not approved for use in the machines. There was more, but given the whole hanging chad debacle, it seems that people intentionally wanted to have problems in FL. Then all you have to do is make sure that counties with a small democratic bias get the bad ballots.
If you want to commit fraud, you don't need a computer. Given that FL is a huge electoral state, it would be smart to tamper with that state too.
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I take a different approach. If we have a mono-culture of software development tools, then we all can participate in advancing computing as a whole, and not worry about factions (i.e. platforms)
Thus far, every software platform has been factioned from the start: .Net - MS only. Mono is a 2nd rate knock off. C++/CLI is a joke. Really you'r looking at C# and VB
C/C++ & POSIX - was good but required POSIX compliance, never fully achieved, notably by MS.
Java - was only recently open-sourced. Limited "official" JVMs
Now we have a completely platform agnostic (You want it on a PC, Mac, Linux, and your phone!? No problem) way to make advanced apps using any C++ compiler.
This is about bringing software development together (Oh, you want GNUCash on your phone!?!)
The goal of yours to eliminate closed-source commercial software isn't even a noble goal. But you've come to desire that through use of bad commercial software. The fact is, some people, like me need to sell software to put food on the table. The better engineering and implementation I do, the harder it is to sell support.
Don't forget:
I wouldn't say "'torture' with crossplatformity" You never really think about it. It just works. The details are hidden, so you never think about it.
Swing was coupled to Java. A slow, unknown language with wonky GUI elements. Qt draws everythign as natiivce controls and supports skinning via CSS.
The objections of the world are just that. They are in shacks, eating raw organic foods (if any at all).
The US's energy consumption per capita is through the roof. There is an idea that there has to be curve of diminishing returns where your energy use to work and sleep in a house tops out.
I don't know what Mr. Gore is running to produce a bill like that. It is obscene, even for an American.
Well you see, RIC is down the street, on the left.
CCRI is down the street and on he right.
URI is right here.
Seriously.
My friends and I and I were on a road trip in RI, to see Ms Teen RI, who they'd met on a cruise (before being awarded the title, before college). My friend and I went to pick up the other friend from Worcester P.I., and decided to stop by her place and hang out. We got lost, and asked come cop for directions. It turned out we were in the exact opposite corner of the state. Three turns and 20 minutes later, we rolled up at her house.
My social coexistence was a negative influence on my GPA. It was however good for my BAC.
Besides being comp sci during windows 3.1 days meant we were in the labs every spare moment because the SGI boxes didn't have a 640k barrier.
It would be more than sufficient to show several sites, with various layouts and allow the reader to select one, or elements from several, and see the steps which made the site or element. This would vastly increase confidence and shorten time to deploy.
Call it "The Drupal Cookbook"
Assembly is highly structured, yet I'd like to see you write a CMS in it.
C is highly structured (no pun intended) yet I'd like to see you write a CMS in it.
Really, the only thing you are partially right on is libraries. But I think you are right for the wrong reason. The libraries carry what the language is intended for. For Python, it is simplicity in everything. For PHP, its a hacked-together scripting languages for websites.
But all these languages have interfaces, be it an H file or an abstract base class. This is where structure is enforced. Being that all languages have essentially the same interface capability, I am left to conclude it is not the language.
However, I do believe that something can be related between the software and the language. I think it comes down to what languages the programmer is attracted to. For instance, I loved Perl until I found PHP. I loved PHP until I found Python. It seems that the language selected has to do about the maturity (experience) of the developer. The more mature the developer, the better (smoother) the implementation will be. (This does not mean that they won't have highly structured code, they probably will, but design is the smaller part of implementation.)
I'm really surprised that I am contradicting someone with a 4-digit UID.
Implementation languages seldom affect what can be developed. I could write a crappy CMS in Python, or C, or RoR, or Perl. The problem is the data and how it is structured. Usually its an interface issue. And that is a design/coding issue issue. Not because my if require {} or :\n\t
I've read a couple books, but I still don't know how to use it. All the books I read thus far spent 1/2 the time on installing it, which should only be a chapter. The rest of the time, they talk about "nodes" which is too abstract a concept for my friend Prudence, who runs a counseling website to grasp.
What we really need is a guide on "do this to make a menu", "do this to make a blog", "do this to enter the blog article", do this..., etc. I really have no idea to layout a site and get what I want. So there Drupal sits, well-installed, but doing nothing. Because that's what the books covered.
I believe this is OK.
I've been surprised how similar hardware for PCs and servers has been over the years. Lets face it, if you can't get your job done on a cheap PC today, you have some computational tasks that would benefit from high-end hardware, or, can be paralleled. given that parallelism is achieved over networks, you now have a new problem.
Also, given that companies have money and people don't, I am surprised this dichotomy has not already developed - that all apps are compatible, but commercial grade hardware is so much more expensive and faster.
I was watching a Ravens regular season game (I think) and for a couple seconds we had the view of the computer's field: black background colored lines. I realized that indeed, there was a digital 3D field that was lined up to match the camera's view. After that, it is a simple matter of using the actual camera as a player in a game with pan and tilt of the actual camera to match the virtual camera. Then, its just a projection of a line with color keying in the composite video.
Well I should have "in space" to the first question. Look at it this way: if you go up, you have to deal with radiation, lack of gravity, lack of resources to expand populations, the initial population will be limited, and will have to be managed (growth wise) We'll be dependent on many, many technologies.
If we go all Matrix and underground, we only need much simpler technologies, less radiation, and we'll have our beloved gravity.
If you want to save humanity, dig a hole, don't plan to live some where you didn't evolve...
Why do you think that saving the species is a good idea?
Why do you think UP is the answer, when DOWN provides a much more affordable, immediate and suitable environment? (Subterranean living) Sure DIRT is boring. But its cheap!
Bah.
The government has no money. Not with a $1T deficit.
When you borrow the $100 now, you have to pay interest on that to the FED, which is not Federal. In order to cover the interest, you need to print money. So then you have inflation. For example a $100,000 mortgage for 30 years comes out to cost another $198,000 in interest.
So for every dollar spent, we have to print 2 more in the next 30 years.
A real stimulus package would be to take the value of all the stimuli to date and divide it by the number of people in the country, and give it to them. The last time I did that (a month ago) I got a number of $13,000 per PERSON in the US. Imagine if we gave everyone that kind of money. people would pay off debt, spend or save the rest, liquidity would be restored, and happiness for all.
Instead, our government continues to reinforce and reward their friends and their contributors.
Here are my qualifications:
Bad Gasses from Solar Panels
The article for the wind energy is eluding me at the moment. But the chart in the link you provided shows maybe a 2x energy profit. The question then, is what is the cost of the energy? If we're using coal plants to make the windmills, then we're being counterproductive aren't we?
I read the other day at discovery channel of all places, of how feasible it would be for terrorists to use infected blood-sucking insects to attack non-muslim populations.
When will we stop dreaming this stuff up? Eventually the report discredited it as a viable infection method, but still, why GIVE THEM IDEAS? Of course, because the possibility is non-zero, we need to spend millions on preparedness and additional studies...
Where Milo is talking to the Gates analog. Gates pursuades Milo to the dark side away from open source because of people getting rich off other people's ideas.
I always looked at it as "great, my ideas will make the world a better place, any theft of them only advances my agenda". And as a Buddhist, I am really into that.
But then I'm also a realist. But only if I can gain from my ideas, can I support myself and my family. True Buddhists are ok begging. I am not. So there is some level of greed that enters in - you don't have to want more than reliable shelter and food, but it is there. The problem is, the multimillion dollar universities will not contribute to your shelter or food supply if you let them steal your ideas.
Lets face it, while information should be free, we need to still survive, pay our bills, and advance our own agendas.
It'll compete with ANTM, but only for the robotic girlfriend episode!
As "fun size" and "bite size" and decreased density of the malt nougat reduce our bar per dollar, its nice to know that its not as bad as it seems.
I for one welcome our caramel-covered malt-nougat overlords!
Windfarms are only profitable with government subsidy; wind mills cost more energy than they make in there serviceable lifetime (Hence the need for subsidy). Bad for bat populations, which are already in decline.
Solar panels are fantastically bad environmentally. They require the production of green house gasses far worse than CO2, lifetimes are limited and exponentially decay. They require toxic batteries to work, and are unreliable due to weather. 14% efficiency. Also, bad for ground-level wildlife.
The only real alternatives are:
Those are listed from worst to best in terms of available output.
There is a saying from the old sailing days. "Never set sail with two compasses". One is ok, three is better. But never two. The paralysis from not knowing which is right is far worse than being wrong and correcting later.
And that is why MS sucks. Any industrious developer would have developed a first-post bot already.
I might even be one myself. Written in LISP of course (ironically, not a .NET language)
Actually I saw a report on Florida's ballot irregularities. There is a case to be made that the paper ballots were manipulated - different grade paper was used which was not approved for use in the machines. There was more, but given the whole hanging chad debacle, it seems that people intentionally wanted to have problems in FL. Then all you have to do is make sure that counties with a small democratic bias get the bad ballots.
If you want to commit fraud, you don't need a computer. Given that FL is a huge electoral state, it would be smart to tamper with that state too.