Who are you? The apprentice of "PhysicsGenius"? That would at least explain the pseudo-intellectual gibberish you are writing.
That being said: what makes you believe that it was a programming error? If you had bothered to read the article instead of spouting some nonsense about mathematics and the "flaw of modern computer science", you would have seen that it was a design error, meaning the specification itself is in error. You can answer "the equivalence" problem, but if the specification is flawed you're going to get flawed code. Garbage in, garbage out.
What part of "Euro Banknotes" didn't you understand? This has nothing to do with the land of the (supposedly) free, but with the union where we have mandatory ID cards, strict weapon laws and people who see black boxes in cars as a/good/ thing and don't distrust the government like the mostly paranoid americans.
All my Euros already have a serial on them, so if somebody wants to trace them from the ATM to the grocery, they could already do so. This paranoid mentality, which seems to be really popular around Slashdot is really bewildering to me.
Of course you are allowed (or should be allowed). But the government is also allowed to not let you on the road with your modified car, which I strongly hope they will.
I'm really glad I live in Germany, where there are things like TüV to prevent you from endangering me.
Why would it seem weird? PowerPC was a IBM/Motorola/Apple joint-venture from the beginning. Besides, all iBooks have a G3 from IBM already, so it would be nothing new.
There's also absolutely no porting required, as the PPC970 is a (duh) PowerPC! Everything will work fine, nothing needs to get recompiled and everybody is happy.
Huh? Why would you want to do that - Symbolics Lisp machines already had an excellent editing substrate called EINE (EINE Is Not Emacs) and later ZWEI (Zwei Was EINE Initially). Zmacs, the LispM editor, was using those and is possibly still more advanced than the Emacs of today.
They wouldn't need to - the quality will suffer from double lossy compression (first AAC and then MP3) anyway. You can just as easily record from the headphone jack and nobody is preventing you from doing that.
WHY would they choose an obscure format, which is only used and even known by a bunch of computer geeks?
Look, AAC is an industry standard and everybody who wants to claim MPEG4 compliancy has to support it, so I don't see any problem. I have paid for the software (either directly or via hardware purchase) and I can play and encode AAC just fine with iTunes/Quicktime. This is exactly the same licensing situation as with MP3 and I had *never* a problem with not being able to play or encode songs because of patents or royalties.
If "openness" is important to you, there are alternatives you can choose from. Just don't expect Apple to waste money adding Ogg support to iTunes AND the iPod, just so they can cater to a minority.
To hell wit dat. Yugo engine + Taiwanese car body "Borsche" + Careful setup of aftermarket parts = usable Porschelike car. It has spoilers and all the cool crap that comes with it...except the pointless irritating sound. If it sucked on Dodge, it'll suck on "Borsche"!
No really - What's with this obsession with Aqua? Buy the real thing if you like it and don't make crappy imitations.
The Internet would be so much better if there wasn't this huge number of self-proclaimed experts, who think they now everything better.
Look, I'm not on a Windows machine, but a 5 second google search gives me MS IPv6 FAQ as the first hit. Microsoft are even running a 6to4 tunnel at 6to4.ipv6.microsoft.com.
Mac OS X 10.2 also supports ipv6 and can be enabled with 2 lines in the terminal. I'm not sure, but I think it is safe to say that all free Unices also support ipv6.
So basically, you have absolutely no point.
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Show me a single program that is successful because it has a ridiculous number of configuration options.
Care to back up your claims with a few facts/numbers instead of pulling things out of your back? Here are some numbers from my machine (768MB RAM/128MB VRAM):
New Safari opened: ~9MB.
Slashdot loaded: ~13MB.
New window opened: ~16MB.
Apple page opened: ~18MB.
New window opened: ~21MB.
So what do we see? A new window takes up around 3MB. Is this "uneconomical", like you say? No, I rarely have more than 4-5 windows open so this is merely a drop in the water. Memory is cheap these days you know...
I drive a Mercedes C-Class with 122HP (which is rather low-end for a Mercedes) and would have never even thought about buying a Golf 3 VR6 with 174HP for a third of the price of the C-Class. People constantly tell me how stupid this is, how much faster and cheaper a Golf/Civic/Whatever is, how cheap a turbocharger for even more speed can be built into the Golf/Civic/Whatever and so on and so on.
It's exactly the same thing with the PC/Mac. Yes, they are slower than the fastest P4/Athlon you can get and yes, they cost more than the average PC, but it isn't the same. I usually don't have built-in Firewire and AirPort antennas, such a great case like the PowerMacs or smooth integration ala "It just works". And most importantly, there is no OS X for PCs.
After having bought my first Mac a few months ago (a MDD 2x1Ghz), I'd never go back to non-Apple hardware like I'd never buy a non-german car.
Note: I'm a student too, so please no "Too expensive for a poor student" flames. Thanks
Glad I'm not alone in preferring those SNES games. I've lost count on how often I've gone through New Game+ in Chrono Trigger or sealed the gates to Infinity in Breath of Fire 2. Those were the games and I'm not sure what it is, that makes me appreciate those games much more than Chrono Chross or FF7+. Perhaps it's the cuddly anime-look of those 32x64 sprites or the lack of pompous cutscenes - I'm not sure. I *really* hope the new Zelda will have a similar feel - I would buy a GameCube just for that one game.
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That's not true - It's available for Mac as well! That covers all relevant Operating Systems - what else do you want?
That's 10-20 tested, documented, reviewed and functional lines of code excluding tests. A Software Engineer (as opposed to a code monkey) should spend most of his time testing and documenting his code - besides, don't forget code reviews - they also take some time. Of course, if you only spew out code and do nothing else, then yes, 10-20 LOC is not very much.
Besides, how many programmers does Microsoft employ? How long are they working on Windows now? Let's assume the Windows source code contains about 10 million LOC - that's 500.000 days if one programmer writes 20 lines a day. Let us further assume, that 100 programmers are working on Windows. That's around 1.400 man-years or 14 years in our case. That's not unreasonable, is it?
I really hope that's true - tabs offer no new functionality over the window menu or ctrl-clicking on the icon. There are far more serious bugs that need fixing.
Safari doesn't use QT - they made a wrapper around the KHTML parts, which need parts of KDE or QT called KWQ (pronounced "quack") so they're not using QT at all, but instead using OSX directly. And yes, that wrapper will also be made open-source and released as part of WebCore soon.
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Who are you? The apprentice of "PhysicsGenius"? That would at least explain the pseudo-intellectual gibberish you are writing.
That being said: what makes you believe that it was a programming error? If you had bothered to read the article instead of spouting some nonsense about mathematics and the "flaw of modern computer science", you would have seen that it was a design error, meaning the specification itself is in error. You can answer "the equivalence" problem, but if the specification is flawed you're going to get flawed code. Garbage in, garbage out.
What part of "Euro Banknotes" didn't you understand? This has nothing to do with the land of the (supposedly) free, but with the union where we have mandatory ID cards, strict weapon laws and people who see black boxes in cars as a /good/ thing and don't distrust the government like the mostly paranoid americans.
All my Euros already have a serial on them, so if somebody wants to trace them from the ATM to the grocery, they could already do so. This paranoid mentality, which seems to be really popular around Slashdot is really bewildering to me.
Of course you are allowed (or should be allowed). But the government is also allowed to not let you on the road with your modified car, which I strongly hope they will.
I'm really glad I live in Germany, where there are things like TüV to prevent you from endangering me.
Why would it seem weird? PowerPC was a IBM/Motorola/Apple joint-venture from the beginning. Besides, all iBooks have a G3 from IBM already, so it would be nothing new.
There's also absolutely no porting required, as the PPC970 is a (duh) PowerPC! Everything will work fine, nothing needs to get recompiled and everybody is happy.
Yes indeed - Python even copies that feature (anonymous lambdas). Of course, Guido never took a straw from (Common) Lisp.. riiiight.
Huh? Why would you want to do that - Symbolics Lisp machines already had an excellent editing substrate called EINE (EINE Is Not Emacs) and later ZWEI (Zwei Was EINE Initially). Zmacs, the LispM editor, was using those and is possibly still more advanced than the Emacs of today.
You can take a look at The Symbolics LispM Museum for more information and pictures.
You have just proven your un-geekness by not having memorized every single Simpsons episode! Begone!
They wouldn't need to - the quality will suffer from double lossy compression (first AAC and then MP3) anyway. You can just as easily record from the headphone jack and nobody is preventing you from doing that.
WHY would they choose an obscure format, which is only used and even known by a bunch of computer geeks?
Look, AAC is an industry standard and everybody who wants to claim MPEG4 compliancy has to support it, so I don't see any problem. I have paid for the software (either directly or via hardware purchase) and I can play and encode AAC just fine with iTunes/Quicktime. This is exactly the same licensing situation as with MP3 and I had *never* a problem with not being able to play or encode songs because of patents or royalties.
If "openness" is important to you, there are alternatives you can choose from. Just don't expect Apple to waste money adding Ogg support to iTunes AND the iPod, just so they can cater to a minority.
To hell wit dat. Yugo engine + Taiwanese car body "Borsche" + Careful setup of aftermarket parts = usable Porschelike car. It has spoilers and all the cool crap that comes with it...except the pointless irritating sound. If it sucked on Dodge, it'll suck on "Borsche"!
No really - What's with this obsession with Aqua? Buy the real thing if you like it and don't make crappy imitations.
I'd guess it's written in Ada.
The Internet would be so much better if there wasn't this huge number of self-proclaimed experts, who think they now everything better.
Look, I'm not on a Windows machine, but a 5 second google search gives me MS IPv6 FAQ as the first hit. Microsoft are even running a 6to4 tunnel at 6to4.ipv6.microsoft.com.
Mac OS X 10.2 also supports ipv6 and can be enabled with 2 lines in the terminal. I'm not sure, but I think it is safe to say that all free Unices also support ipv6.
So basically, you have absolutely no point.
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Care to back up your claims with a few facts/numbers instead of pulling things out of your back?
Here are some numbers from my machine (768MB RAM/128MB VRAM):
New Safari opened: ~9MB.
Slashdot loaded: ~13MB.
New window opened: ~16MB.
Apple page opened: ~18MB.
New window opened: ~21MB.
So what do we see? A new window takes up around 3MB. Is this "uneconomical", like you say? No, I rarely have more than 4-5 windows open so this is merely a drop in the water. Memory is cheap these days you know...
No - I took a semester off and worked full-time for that period. That's enough to get you a very good used Mercedes.
That's exactly the point.
I drive a Mercedes C-Class with 122HP (which is rather low-end for a Mercedes) and would have never even thought about buying a Golf 3 VR6 with 174HP for a third of the price of the C-Class. People constantly tell me how stupid this is, how much faster and cheaper a Golf/Civic/Whatever is, how cheap a turbocharger for even more speed can be built into the Golf/Civic/Whatever and so on and so on.
It's exactly the same thing with the PC/Mac. Yes, they are slower than the fastest P4/Athlon you can get and yes, they cost more than the average PC, but it isn't the same. I usually don't have built-in Firewire and AirPort antennas, such a great case like the PowerMacs or smooth integration ala "It just works". And most importantly, there is no OS X for PCs.
After having bought my first Mac a few months ago (a MDD 2x1Ghz), I'd never go back to non-Apple hardware like I'd never buy a non-german car.
Note: I'm a student too, so please no "Too expensive for a poor student" flames. Thanks
Glad I'm not alone in preferring those SNES games. I've lost count on how often I've gone through New Game+ in Chrono Trigger or sealed the gates to Infinity in Breath of Fire 2. Those were the games and I'm not sure what it is, that makes me appreciate those games much more than Chrono Chross or FF7+. Perhaps it's the cuddly anime-look of those 32x64 sprites or the lack of pompous cutscenes - I'm not sure. I *really* hope the new Zelda will have a similar feel - I would buy a GameCube just for that one game.
That's not true - It's available for Mac as well! That covers all relevant Operating Systems - what else do you want?
And I should probably fine-tune my sarcasm detectors before hitting the submit-button. Now where's the "delete post" button :/
Nice troll!
You do realize, that Netscape was rewritten totally between 4 and 6? And you also realize, that this wasn't their best decision?
Please shut up if you don't know what you're talking about.
That's 10-20 tested, documented, reviewed and functional lines of code excluding tests. A Software Engineer (as opposed to a code monkey) should spend most of his time testing and documenting his code - besides, don't forget code reviews - they also take some time.
Of course, if you only spew out code and do nothing else, then yes, 10-20 LOC is not very much.
Besides, how many programmers does Microsoft employ? How long are they working on Windows now? Let's assume the Windows source code contains about 10 million LOC - that's 500.000 days if one programmer writes 20 lines a day. Let us further assume, that 100 programmers are working on Windows. That's around 1.400 man-years or 14 years in our case. That's not unreasonable, is it?
I really hope that's true - tabs offer no new functionality over the window menu or ctrl-clicking on the icon. There are far more serious bugs that need fixing.
OK - thanks for the correction. Incremental Search is one of my favorite Emacs features, so it would be a welcome addition!
Safari doesn't use QT - they made a wrapper around the KHTML parts, which need parts of KDE or QT called KWQ (pronounced "quack") so they're not using QT at all, but instead using OSX directly. And yes, that wrapper will also be made open-source and released as part of WebCore soon.
Use the preview button, Luke!
That should be cmd-~, cmd-shift-~ and cmd-h, not ctrl.