With all those nasty pro-democracy websites that Google keeps turning up, what's a communist country supposed to do? Well, create their own search engine of course!
I'm no communist, but I hate seeing the debate muddied like this. Just to be clear, communism shouldn't be conflated with totalitarianism, just as capitalism shouldn't be conflated with liberty. China demonstrates that well; for most of the past half-century it was basically communist and totalitarian; now it is rapidly moving towards capitalism, but the totalitarianism shows few signs of abating, unfortunately.
Don't forget about nemerle. It's built on.net (and developed on mono). Its design clearly owes a lot to ml, but its syntax is much easier to wrap your head around than that of ml and derivatives, especially if you're coming from a C/C++/Java/C#/Perl/whatever background.
I can't speak to qt, but it actually uses gtk in places, such as in the file-chooser mentioned above. However, most of the widgets are still simulated; they follow the gtk theme well, but they feel different. Of course, themes never change an application's feel.
The old openoffice file chooser was terrible, though; having the nice new gtk file chooser is really cool.
In school they taught us that technology is the applied use of science, of which math is a subset. I think that's a pretty good working definition. Therefore, I would argue that software - actual programs - is indeed technology, being applied use of mathematics and other disciplines, such as psychology and engineering.
Not that I disagree with you about its patentability.
And everyone seems to think of Open Source as the GPL. So.:P
They do? News to me.
In fact, my experience is much the opposite; many claim that programs which come with source but lack the freedoms that make a program open source are open source. Java is a good example, in fact.
If we got rid of it, the presidential election campaigns would focus on the top five or ten population centers/media markets in the country, and effectively disenfranchise the rest of it. There is a reason why our forefathers gave disproportionate numbers of votes to smaller states--because they realized the danger of letting one particular geographical area or population center have control of the system.
That may be a good argument in favor of keeping the current system. However, saying that it is why it was designed is pure bullshit.
Stick to decent arguments without making stuff up, please, rather than spread falsehoods.
Why wouldn't you want to write performance-oriented code in lisp? Compiled lisp isn't as fast as heavily optimised C, but it's close enough, and it lets you do more.
Its real problem is that talking to the OS is harder than it should be.
Ok, I just thought this up, but suppose in the prequels there had been TWO padawans who had a more-than-friendly competition going on... one of them happens to be named Skywalker, and everybody thinks, "Ooo, he's going to be Darth Vader!" Except that he's always doing right, and it's the other padawan that seems to have some ethical issues. Then in the third movie, the other padawan kills Skywalker and assumes his identity. BAM, you just floored the audience.
Well, it would be difficult to reconcile that with the end of ROTJ, but I think you're absolutely right - they had an opportunity to totally blow away the audience, but never took it.
for someone to really convey their ideas well they need
Here you need a comma after "well" to separate the two clauses as "they" is not a conjunction. Also, they need should be "they would need" as you are occupying the subjuctive mood and the conditionality needs to be stated.
It's true that standardised English spelling hasn't been around forever. However, today's English is very far removed from the English Chaucer wrote in.
Wow. I've never heard the rail system in New England described as "damn good" before.
I would have called it "damn adequate" when I could make it from home (Cleveland Circle) to work (the Fenway area) in 15 minutes. Office moved a few months ago, commute jumped to between 40 and 70 minutes, and now I call it "damn barely sufficient".
The commuter rail is a joke.
Live in another country or even another city in the US with a better system, and you'll think twice before calling New England's rail system "damn good".
I lived in Australia for three years. Melbourne's system smokes the T, and even rural areas have some public transport. But in Massachusetts, there are places between Boston and Worcester that still don't. Many that do only got their commuter rail stations within the last few years - and you need a car to get to them.
So I make sure I tell my users that there are viruses out there which can log their keystrokes and, by inference, steal their credit card number or online banking details or any other personal information.
The smart ones will point out that there's already CC fraud protection. The dumb ones have forgotten a few seconds later, like fish.
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I'm no communist, but I hate seeing the debate muddied like this. Just to be clear, communism shouldn't be conflated with totalitarianism, just as capitalism shouldn't be conflated with liberty. China demonstrates that well; for most of the past half-century it was basically communist and totalitarian; now it is rapidly moving towards capitalism, but the totalitarianism shows few signs of abating, unfortunately.
Don't forget about nemerle. It's built on .net (and developed on mono). Its design clearly owes a lot to ml, but its syntax is much easier to wrap your head around than that of ml and derivatives, especially if you're coming from a C/C++/Java/C#/Perl/whatever background.
The old openoffice file chooser was terrible, though; having the nice new gtk file chooser is really cool.
gcj and kaffe aren't forks; they're new implementations. But you're right that java's unfreeness is a large part of why they exist.
Not that I disagree with you about its patentability.
They do? News to me.
In fact, my experience is much the opposite; many claim that programs which come with source but lack the freedoms that make a program open source are open source. Java is a good example, in fact.
That may be a good argument in favor of keeping the current system. However, saying that it is why it was designed is pure bullshit.
Stick to decent arguments without making stuff up, please, rather than spread falsehoods.
And who can let a link to that site go by without linking to The Best Bug Report Ever (tm)?
You cannot be serious.
Its real problem is that talking to the OS is harder than it should be.
Ah, yes, messenger bags. For people who enjoy back problems.
Well, it would be difficult to reconcile that with the end of ROTJ, but I think you're absolutely right - they had an opportunity to totally blow away the audience, but never took it.
Of course we do sir!
No no no no no no. It should be his father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
I was thinking the same thing, basically. More people should be using higher level languages more often.
I usually just use "he"; sexism is an issue of attitude and behavior, not linguistics.
Here you need a comma after "well" to separate the two clauses as "they" is not a conjunction. Also, they need should be "they would need" as you are occupying the subjuctive mood and the conditionality needs to be stated.
Using "they" is incorrect, although very common.
It's true that standardised English spelling hasn't been around forever. However, today's English is very far removed from the English Chaucer wrote in.
That would be cool.
Goddamn, that sounds so strange to a Bostonian.
I would have called it "damn adequate" when I could make it from home (Cleveland Circle) to work (the Fenway area) in 15 minutes. Office moved a few months ago, commute jumped to between 40 and 70 minutes, and now I call it "damn barely sufficient".
The commuter rail is a joke.
Live in another country or even another city in the US with a better system, and you'll think twice before calling New England's rail system "damn good".
I lived in Australia for three years. Melbourne's system smokes the T, and even rural areas have some public transport. But in Massachusetts, there are places between Boston and Worcester that still don't. Many that do only got their commuter rail stations within the last few years - and you need a car to get to them.
The smart ones will point out that there's already CC fraud protection. The dumb ones have forgotten a few seconds later, like fish.
Colour me cynical...
Those examples are wrong too. It is as simple as thought: never use an apostrophe to pluralise. Ever. "and's" is particularly inexcusable.
If only that were so...
usb will be obsolete and no longer used before my model m keyboards break down.
Some day, I will use ps2 -> usb -> something else -> yet something else converters between my keyboards and my computers.
It'll be annoying. I say keep the ps2 ports.