Mr. Pike _did_ tear down the wall. The author didn't read the spec for Pike's language.
From the article:
Unicode has the entire gamut of Greek letters, mathematical and technical symbols, brackets, brockets, sprockets, and weird and wonderful glyphs such as "Dentistry symbol light down and horizontal with wave" (0x23c7). Why do we still have to name variables OmegaZero when our computers now know how to render 0x03a9+0x2080 properly?
The go spec is defined in terms of unicode, and specifically gives non-ascii characters as example identifiers. Go source code is defined to be UTF-8.
There sure are a lot of pro-Apple comments here, but honestly I don't think it's because of a double standard for Apple. It's because of this: we desperately want online music to succeed. On the subject of DRM, I don't like it much at all, but I am willing to put up with it because 1) being able to buy music online is great and 2) I know that I'll always be able to download some program to crack it if I need to.
*However*, I do *not* want that last point splashed across the pages of the new york times. If it's common knowledge that the DRM is not an obstacle, and if the record companies *know* that we all know it isn't an obstacle, they're not going to want to play ball anymore. And I can't buy stuff for decent prices in the iTunes music store.
So I think in this article we have a lot of people with an automatic dislike for what Real's doing, and they may not be justifying it for the right reasons. In particular, philosophically, I agree with Real's right to do what they're doing. But goddammit, STOP IT.
Um, if you're a geek, isn't it kind of obvious that it's going to be running DHCP by default? You know that Apple's not going to tell all their users that they have to configure their IP addresses manually.
Besides, if you went so far as to open the AirPort Admin Utility, it's obvious. I'm certainly not going to defend Apple tech support, they clearly screwed you over, but this isn't that hard. In particular, did you actually try asking anyone in the macintosh community for help?
I'm not particularly agreeing with the parent's parent, but I understand the sentiment.
If parents believe that their child will have a better success chance of success in the real world if they choose to buy a clone at the clone market (with good looks, brains, etc), then some parents are going to choose the clone. The more parents do that, the more perceived pressure there is on other parents to get clones so that their children can compete.
You can the situation where most parents would rather have a natural pregnancy but feel they have no choice.
Bonobo in particular *has* been ported to OSX and is available through Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/).
I don't know anything else specific to Evolution on the mac. I do know that there are in general problems porting KDE apps to OSX. Says the Fink FAQ (http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#kd e):
Q: Why are there no packages for KDE?
A: Because there simply are none.
Seriously, KDE has (or at least had) serious problems that prevent a port to Mac OS X. It assumes it can do things with shared libraries that are only possible on ELF systems like Linux, *BSD and Solaris. It could very well be that some people are trying to port it nevertheless, but we haven't heard of any breakthroughs yet. Note that Qt is a different story, we have a package for it and it works fine.
I've been using this and its earlier versions for a while.
The latest version is a real mac OS X app, i.e. not something of interest to non-mac users (but of great great interest to mac users! Get it!). However, if you go back to a previous version (I can't say which since the site is slashdotted) it will be a normal Xwindow wm. On the other hand, it's really meant to be run in rootless mode on OSX and I don't think anyone would like it much as a wm on its own.
In response to another response to this post, he drew all the graphics himself; nothing is Apple's.
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I also wonder if Poul-Henning Kamp is aware that Rob Pike is the co-inventor of UTF-8...
Unicode has the entire gamut of Greek letters, mathematical and technical symbols, brackets, brockets, sprockets, and weird and wonderful glyphs such as "Dentistry symbol light down and horizontal with wave" (0x23c7). Why do we still have to name variables OmegaZero when our computers now know how to render 0x03a9+0x2080 properly?
The go spec is defined in terms of unicode, and specifically gives non-ascii characters as example identifiers. Go source code is defined to be UTF-8.
So, um, "He can take being sued by Apple, there's fair-to-good chances that he comes from an upper middle class or better family?"
Harvard has really good financial aid. Just because he can handle the expenses you cite doesn't mean he has money in general.
Yeah, you can just shut up there. Harvard has a need blind admissions policy; there's no reason to think this kid has cash.
You don't *like* the effects so you think he should be *sued*? Someone needs to turn in their slashdot card.
The real question, of course, is how Jewish law applies in space.
Jews... In... Spaaaace...
There sure are a lot of pro-Apple comments here, but honestly I don't think it's because of a double standard for Apple. It's because of this: we desperately want online music to succeed. On the subject of DRM, I don't like it much at all, but I am willing to put up with it because 1) being able to buy music online is great and 2) I know that I'll always be able to download some program to crack it if I need to.
*However*, I do *not* want that last point splashed across the pages of the new york times. If it's common knowledge that the DRM is not an obstacle, and if the record companies *know* that we all know it isn't an obstacle, they're not going to want to play ball anymore. And I can't buy stuff for decent prices in the iTunes music store.
So I think in this article we have a lot of people with an automatic dislike for what Real's doing, and they may not be justifying it for the right reasons. In particular, philosophically, I agree with Real's right to do what they're doing. But goddammit, STOP IT.
Um, if you're a geek, isn't it kind of obvious that it's going to be running DHCP by default? You know that Apple's not going to tell all their users that they have to configure their IP addresses manually.
Besides, if you went so far as to open the AirPort Admin Utility, it's obvious. I'm certainly not going to defend Apple tech support, they clearly screwed you over, but this isn't that hard. In particular, did you actually try asking anyone in the macintosh community for help?
For commutative algebra, for example, there's Macaulay2.
I'm not particularly agreeing with the parent's parent, but I understand the sentiment.
If parents believe that their child will have a better success chance of success in the real world if they choose to buy a clone at the clone market (with good looks, brains, etc), then some parents are going to choose the clone. The more parents do that, the more perceived pressure there is on other parents to get clones so that their children can compete.
You can the situation where most parents would rather have a natural pregnancy but feel they have no choice.
Bonobo in particular *has* been ported to OSX and is available through Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/).
d e):
I don't know anything else specific to Evolution on the mac. I do know that there are in general problems porting KDE apps to OSX. Says the Fink FAQ (http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#k
Q: Why are there no packages for KDE?
A: Because there simply are none.
Seriously, KDE has (or at least had) serious problems that prevent a port to Mac OS X. It assumes it can do things with shared libraries that are only possible on ELF systems like Linux, *BSD and Solaris. It could very well be that some people are trying to port it nevertheless, but we haven't heard of any breakthroughs yet. Note that Qt is a different story, we have a package for it and it works fine.
I've been using this and its earlier versions for a while.
The latest version is a real mac OS X app, i.e. not something of interest to non-mac users (but of great great interest to mac users! Get it!). However, if you go back to a previous version (I can't say which since the site is slashdotted) it will be a normal Xwindow wm. On the other hand, it's really meant to be run in rootless mode on OSX and I don't think anyone would like it much as a wm on its own.
In response to another response to this post, he drew all the graphics himself; nothing is Apple's.