Corel is probably one of the few big name companies that I still do not resent. I will forever use their products and couldn't give a rats ass if you didn't. Everyone is entitled to your opinion, but you have no right to bash Corel. We'll just ignore all the financial problems it has to begin with. We'll also ignore the fact that they ported what is IMHO the best word processing suite to a platform that badly needed one. We'll ignore the countless number of paid staff they sent to help with countless Open Source projects, including Wine. We'll ignore the fact that their "betrayal" was because of a lack of revenue and the change of management.
We'll just look at it black and white and think: Jee...why the fuck would a company with an honest initiative ever "betray" a bunch of unappreciative, unsupportive morons who have done nothing but bash them?
Very tough question to answer isn't it?
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If we do not learn from history, then we will be doomed to repeat it.
In the same sense, do we keep the bodies of past leaders just so that we remember their mistakes and not repeat them? Not only is it useless, we've got written records of their achievements and failures for our references. Mir served its purpose...it was a great space station, and was great for space research. Its time has passed and it's time to say goodbye. Not only will its deorbit provide us with far more research than it would help by keeping it floating uselessly, it is much safer on the ocean floor than in the air. If you didn't realize it already, there is a tremendous abount of space junk that is floating around the earth. Its best we do our part and not keep it up by adding 140 more tonnes. Why not just keep it around anyway? Why bother to? It is old technology, old junk, and is lucky enough to survive 10 years beyond its planned life. It costs enough to just keep it running.
MIR was a monument to the great Socialist state. It was the last major project the Russian space agency participated in with any great fanfare or success.
It sure was. Keyword being was. The soviet project is dead, and the push now is for the ISS anyway. The International Space Station. You talk about the human race, the earth whatever, but why force diversity when we should all focus on one race, one earth, one nation? Is national pride for a certain country worth so much more than a pride the entire human race can share?
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Actually, to a certain point, it CAN be seen, except that it isn't unique in taht regard. Quite a few other man made things are visible.
Us canadians would never even consider having a secret plot to take over the world. Definitely not. Our niceness is definitely not a front. All our lax immigration laws are definitely not for harbouring foriegn defectors with top secret documents. No way. And no, of course we arent secretly forming our own language. What a stupid proposition, eh?
I don't get it...how? Shrimp are in teh water, mosquitos are in the air...do the mosquito's have to go for a swim, or do the shrimp have to start flying?
First off, I'd like to call you an idiot. As many posters before me have mentioned, you could have just used the range operator! And using the -w along with "use strict" flag will flag it as an error. The whole thing with Perl is its flexibility. I don't know about you but to me, the greatest achievement is having one of my programs used in a way I have never imagined. I guess this could carry over with programming languages too. Consider the following endless loop:
for (;;) {
print "Python sucks!\n";
}
How would you replicate this in Python? In this situation, the author's forgot the whole essence of the loop, which was "start with this", "make sure this is true in each loop", and "perform this before each loop". This was all forgotten when the Python designers all assumed that we just wanted to increment/decrement variables (or perhaps they love Pascal too much).
And of course the main thing...readability. You all brag on and on about how readable Python is and how ugly Perl is. Probably because Perl uses typical shell script symbols to denote various objects but in the end, isn't it nice to be able to tell the type of a variable just in the name? Sure we could use prefixes and such, but you were just commenting on how good Python is because it enforces a good thing in white space! And on that topic, sure python forces you to use whitespace and that's a good thing. But it's not like Perl forces you not to! You could use whitespace any which way you want, and in the end, it is up to the programmer to make the code pretty. And who's to decide how whitespace should be formatted? I personally despise C-style formatting (2 spaces + _ rather than caps) and prefer the whole C++ and Java deal, and my Perl code reflects that. But I know many programmers who are the exact opposite, and I respect that. To each his own...and nobody should go out there to enforce one or the other.
And one more thing Python can't compare to...when's the last time you've seen a Python obfusciation contest? That's right...suck that down and weep bitch!
And you're the type of kid my parents used to brag about day in day out. God knows how much i wanna kick your ASS!!!
(jusk kidding...not your ass...only those kids i knew who were like you)
We all know this is may be somewhat unfair, but on the other hand, if Linux was sold, who would the money go to? How could you possibly split the revenue between thousands of contributers, in an efficient and fair way? Does a patch submitter deserve an equal amount of money as Alan Cox?
The people writing/submitting code for Linux and other free software knew that such a scenario was possible, that people could make millions off their labour of love, yet they continued...perhaps that tells you something about their will, perhaps that money isn't always everything?
Also, these people are creating a 3D engine to sell for a ton of money. So what? It's their right. They arent using any GPL'd code, so they should be free to. And keep in mind, these "greedy" companies consist of hundreds of programmers, software architects and even the studio janitor who have families, homes, cars and all that to pay for.
And considering the speeds of some handhelds (like the 206mhz ipaq), you could do quite a bit. A considerable amount more than all my old computers, and even the 166 that i still use.
(Suddenly i get this premonition that quakeworld usage is gonna increase like mad...)
Yup..."The Net"...yup...that was one shit assed movie! Got the plot sucked...the technicalities sucked. In the whole theme of sucking, the plot would have been MUCH better if maybe the bad dude just posted a vid of their sex romp on the net or something! (Of course then, there'd be no problems with her not existing...she just has to find the right 13 year old's house to crash;-)
Yeah I know what DSL provider you're talking about....STUPID SYMPATICO USERS....time to diss up another stupid sympatico user!
Here's why you and sympatico suck:
1. its a noretel-networks "meg-a-second" modem...megaBIT = like around 100kB per second...HAHAHA....i get 300kb+ regularly with @home
2. you go on about how it lets you run whatever you want....who gives a crap if your upstream cap is 12kB per second? whoa...check out my ultra elite z3r4w ftp...of course its for dialup users only cause my upstream limit sucks ass!
3. who cares about all the ip's you want for $5/mo each? i get all the ip's i want for FREE (well legally, its $10 but if anyone wants a copy of my @home account hijacker, mail me)
4. PPPoE sucks ass...it wont get better....it sucks ass....line noise sucks ass...unless you wanna but all the line filters you want for each socket in your house for only $10 each
5. best of all....sympatico has the SHITTIEST ad's ever...."we used to share the cable modem so we just bought the neighbourhood"...yeah okay there...if they had enough money to buy the neighbourhood, they might as well have gotten a REAL dedicated line...t1's less t han 1grand a month...(avg. house in to = $250k * 20 houses per neighbourhood = $5 million...enough to have t1 for the rest of your life)....on the other hand...rogers and "download rigormotis"....holy shit that's the funniest ad series EVER...(actually the "black socks" were pretty good too)
What the fuck goes through your moderators heads? How is this post flaimbait in ANY way? This guy's just pointing out that this article was posted before!!! You dumbasses....yeah go mod me down...I don't have any karma any way!
That site, that article, those pictures look so bullshit its not funny. The only thing missing is a April 1 article date.
Come on! $20 for a laptop? What kind of a chip you gonna have in there? A DORITO? (Apologies to Wierd Al)
Is there anyone who has successfully managed to setup a web-based proxy (like anonymizer.com) in order to bypass BESS? There is NO other way to bypass BESS but I never had success installing nph-proxy.cgi on any servers I own or have access to. All the good ones, including the nph-proxy.cgi homesite are blocked by bess.
except that my company is not about to die, but say that it was about to, I would jump ship and either invite the other guys aboard or offer a good reference letter. No reason to stick with a company that's being run by incompetent fools.
What's up with these stupid moderators calling this offtopic? This article is about mSQL coming back, and this guy is celebrating its release, saying it's always good to have competition. Who are the competition? mySql, postgresql, and all other proprietary sql suites.
Although I'm happy for AMD for getting its Athlon another major contract, it's not exactly all new ground for AMD. Cobalt has always made inexpensive low-end servers with pretty much every thing you need built in. Those servers had a modified version of Redhat, Apache and all else you can think of on an AMD K6-2 chip (our current server pool uses AMD K6-2 300s). Its true that with the Athlons, Cobalts may get rid of that "cheap" reputation and therefore get wider acceptance but still, AMD already has broken into the server market.
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Corel is probably one of the few big name companies that I still do not resent. I will forever use their products and couldn't give a rats ass if you didn't. Everyone is entitled to your opinion, but you have no right to bash Corel. We'll just ignore all the financial problems it has to begin with. We'll also ignore the fact that they ported what is IMHO the best word processing suite to a platform that badly needed one. We'll ignore the countless number of paid staff they sent to help with countless Open Source projects, including Wine. We'll ignore the fact that their "betrayal" was because of a lack of revenue and the change of management.
We'll just look at it black and white and think: Jee...why the fuck would a company with an honest initiative ever "betray" a bunch of unappreciative, unsupportive morons who have done nothing but bash them?
Very tough question to answer isn't it?
If we do not learn from history, then we will be doomed to repeat it.
In the same sense, do we keep the bodies of past leaders just so that we remember their mistakes and not repeat them? Not only is it useless, we've got written records of their achievements and failures for our references. Mir served its purpose...it was a great space station, and was great for space research. Its time has passed and it's time to say goodbye. Not only will its deorbit provide us with far more research than it would help by keeping it floating uselessly, it is much safer on the ocean floor than in the air. If you didn't realize it already, there is a tremendous abount of space junk that is floating around the earth. Its best we do our part and not keep it up by adding 140 more tonnes. Why not just keep it around anyway? Why bother to? It is old technology, old junk, and is lucky enough to survive 10 years beyond its planned life. It costs enough to just keep it running.
MIR was a monument to the great Socialist state. It was the last major project the Russian space agency participated in with any great fanfare or success.
It sure was. Keyword being was. The soviet project is dead, and the push now is for the ISS anyway. The International Space Station. You talk about the human race, the earth whatever, but why force diversity when we should all focus on one race, one earth, one nation? Is national pride for a certain country worth so much more than a pride the entire human race can share?
Actually, to a certain point, it CAN be seen, except that it isn't unique in taht regard. Quite a few other man made things are visible.
With all that karma, maybe Slashdot could die and be reborn as raja-dot?
Us canadians would never even consider having a secret plot to take over the world. Definitely not. Our niceness is definitely not a front. All our lax immigration laws are definitely not for harbouring foriegn defectors with top secret documents. No way. And no, of course we arent secretly forming our own language. What a stupid proposition, eh?
I don't get it...how? Shrimp are in teh water, mosquitos are in the air...do the mosquito's have to go for a swim, or do the shrimp have to start flying?
First off, I'd like to call you an idiot. As many posters before me have mentioned, you could have just used the range operator! And using the -w along with "use strict" flag will flag it as an error. The whole thing with Perl is its flexibility. I don't know about you but to me, the greatest achievement is having one of my programs used in a way I have never imagined. I guess this could carry over with programming languages too. Consider the following endless loop:
How would you replicate this in Python? In this situation, the author's forgot the whole essence of the loop, which was "start with this", "make sure this is true in each loop", and "perform this before each loop". This was all forgotten when the Python designers all assumed that we just wanted to increment/decrement variables (or perhaps they love Pascal too much).
And of course the main thing...readability. You all brag on and on about how readable Python is and how ugly Perl is. Probably because Perl uses typical shell script symbols to denote various objects but in the end, isn't it nice to be able to tell the type of a variable just in the name? Sure we could use prefixes and such, but you were just commenting on how good Python is because it enforces a good thing in white space! And on that topic, sure python forces you to use whitespace and that's a good thing. But it's not like Perl forces you not to! You could use whitespace any which way you want, and in the end, it is up to the programmer to make the code pretty. And who's to decide how whitespace should be formatted? I personally despise C-style formatting (2 spaces + _ rather than caps) and prefer the whole C++ and Java deal, and my Perl code reflects that. But I know many programmers who are the exact opposite, and I respect that. To each his own...and nobody should go out there to enforce one or the other.
And one more thing Python can't compare to...when's the last time you've seen a Python obfusciation contest? That's right...suck that down and weep bitch!
And you're the type of kid my parents used to brag about day in day out. God knows how much i wanna kick your ASS!!! (jusk kidding...not your ass...only those kids i knew who were like you)
This was actually a pretty funny post...if you wrote this a few days earlier when ihad mod, i woulda modded you up.
So one of the original castmembers was actually Forrest Gump?
We all know this is may be somewhat unfair, but on the other hand, if Linux was sold, who would the money go to? How could you possibly split the revenue between thousands of contributers, in an efficient and fair way? Does a patch submitter deserve an equal amount of money as Alan Cox?
The people writing/submitting code for Linux and other free software knew that such a scenario was possible, that people could make millions off their labour of love, yet they continued...perhaps that tells you something about their will, perhaps that money isn't always everything?
Also, these people are creating a 3D engine to sell for a ton of money. So what? It's their right. They arent using any GPL'd code, so they should be free to. And keep in mind, these "greedy" companies consist of hundreds of programmers, software architects and even the studio janitor who have families, homes, cars and all that to pay for.
And considering the speeds of some handhelds (like the 206mhz ipaq), you could do quite a bit. A considerable amount more than all my old computers, and even the 166 that i still use. (Suddenly i get this premonition that quakeworld usage is gonna increase like mad...)
Yup..."The Net"...yup...that was one shit assed movie! Got the plot sucked...the technicalities sucked. In the whole theme of sucking, the plot would have been MUCH better if maybe the bad dude just posted a vid of their sex romp on the net or something! (Of course then, there'd be no problems with her not existing...she just has to find the right 13 year old's house to crash ;-)
Was that not the idea behind Plan 9?
Chill out man! This was a joke! And being a perl lover, python "avoider", i found it fairly hillarious.
Yeah I know what DSL provider you're talking about....STUPID SYMPATICO USERS....time to diss up another stupid sympatico user! Here's why you and sympatico suck: 1. its a noretel-networks "meg-a-second" modem...megaBIT = like around 100kB per second...HAHAHA....i get 300kb+ regularly with @home 2. you go on about how it lets you run whatever you want....who gives a crap if your upstream cap is 12kB per second? whoa...check out my ultra elite z3r4w ftp...of course its for dialup users only cause my upstream limit sucks ass! 3. who cares about all the ip's you want for $5/mo each? i get all the ip's i want for FREE (well legally, its $10 but if anyone wants a copy of my @home account hijacker, mail me) 4. PPPoE sucks ass...it wont get better....it sucks ass....line noise sucks ass...unless you wanna but all the line filters you want for each socket in your house for only $10 each 5. best of all....sympatico has the SHITTIEST ad's ever...."we used to share the cable modem so we just bought the neighbourhood"...yeah okay there...if they had enough money to buy the neighbourhood, they might as well have gotten a REAL dedicated line...t1's less t han 1grand a month...(avg. house in to = $250k * 20 houses per neighbourhood = $5 million...enough to have t1 for the rest of your life)....on the other hand...rogers and "download rigormotis"....holy shit that's the funniest ad series EVER...(actually the "black socks" were pretty good too)
I REALLY hate pay-per-play systems...i'd rather pay an exorbitant amount for the client instead.
What the fuck goes through your moderators heads? How is this post flaimbait in ANY way? This guy's just pointing out that this article was posted before!!! You dumbasses....yeah go mod me down...I don't have any karma any way!
That site, that article, those pictures look so bullshit its not funny. The only thing missing is a April 1 article date.
Come on! $20 for a laptop? What kind of a chip you gonna have in there? A DORITO? (Apologies to Wierd Al)
Is there anyone who has successfully managed to setup a web-based proxy (like anonymizer.com) in order to bypass BESS? There is NO other way to bypass BESS but I never had success installing nph-proxy.cgi on any servers I own or have access to. All the good ones, including the nph-proxy.cgi homesite are blocked by bess.
Well atleast its not a goatce.sx link.
except that my company is not about to die, but say that it was about to, I would jump ship and either invite the other guys aboard or offer a good reference letter. No reason to stick with a company that's being run by incompetent fools.
Even if the system hardware didnt cost you an armand a leg, software for it would...Solaris costs as much as the computer I'm using now!
What's up with these stupid moderators calling this offtopic? This article is about mSQL coming back, and this guy is celebrating its release, saying it's always good to have competition. Who are the competition? mySql, postgresql, and all other proprietary sql suites.
Although I'm happy for AMD for getting its Athlon another major contract, it's not exactly all new ground for AMD. Cobalt has always made inexpensive low-end servers with pretty much every thing you need built in. Those servers had a modified version of Redhat, Apache and all else you can think of on an AMD K6-2 chip (our current server pool uses AMD K6-2 300s). Its true that with the Athlons, Cobalts may get rid of that "cheap" reputation and therefore get wider acceptance but still, AMD already has broken into the server market.