It's more than 2-3 extra lines. IE8 and IE9 don't have XHR2, so you have to use the XDomainRequest ActiveX control, which behaves differently, doesn't support anything other than GET and POST, and is riddled with silly bugs like, "if the progress handler isn't set, requests won't be processed at all in IE9, with no errors."
Never mind the fact that the XHR object in IE8/9 is broken as all hell.
Even outside the area of software and genetics patents, it's hard to make a case that patents meet the requirements of the Constitution, which states that they must exist to encourage invention for the betterment of culture and society. Patents do not engender innovation (invention does happen without patents), and the monopoly protection they afford does not improve culture and society, and in fact results in lower quality, higher prices, and less innovation (since no one is truly permitted to improve on an invention).
What's the patent FUD, specifically? I'm not talking about some obscure part of the Winforms API, I mean in the core language itself.
Microsoft made some veiled threats a few years ago, intimating that their deal with Novell for Mono was exclusive. No one is really privy to the terms of that arrangement, but it made a lot of people really nervous.
And you forget that C++ has a giant environment to install as well, but due to age, that is generally part of the OS as is.
C++ is quite capable of operating entirely without a run-time environment. It depends only on the C++ standard library and the C standard library, which, while implemented by the OS, are completely optional.
In time, modern generation languages will end up in the same category. In fact, Windows Vista and 7 already come with.NET pre-installed, so there's no need to download anything to run a.NET app.
But this is not the case on non-Windows platforms.
The FQA gives the word "disingenuous" a bad name. The author spends a lot of time with red herrings, straw men, and minutiae, and never actually seems to have a point. Worse, many of his claims and assertions are flat-out wrong, or at the very least, badly misleading.
Calling it a "pack of lies" would be unfair to packs of lies.
All of the.so files are distributed as binary files. That includes their libGL.so.
You're thinking of the.ko file, which is compiled against the specific Linux kernel you have installed (and incidentally linked against a precompiled object file), and which is non-portable except to systems running the same kernel version, with the same.config and built with the same version of GCC.
This is inccorect. DirectX 10 does work on Windows XP, it is just not officially supported by Microsoft.
And this is incorrect. The Alky project went down. It was never a complete implementation. Most of the features that worked could be enabled in DX9 mode anyway - they just weren't.
And the guy that wrote it said in no uncertain terms that he has zero interest in starting it back up.
The summary here is horrible. It doesn't actually have vi keybindings. The default bindings are decidedly vi-like, but it's hardly a selling-point of the browser. The vi bindings are merely a convenience to get you started in configuring it. In fact, the whole thing is quite unlike vi in many ways. You virtually have to implement all of the vi bindings yourself if you want more than just hjkl.
The real selling point is that you can configure everything that the browser can do. Everything from the way cookies are handled to the way the UI functions.
They did precisely the same thing with the PS2. Early games were kinda shitty because no one could figure out how to program it. Fast-forward 7+ years and newer games are getting more elaborate visuals and take better advantage of the very unusual hardware.
I imagine a lot of people felt this way about the PS1 when it came out.
Last month, I got a little carried away with binary newsgroups.
I got a phone call from Comcast. They informed me that I had managed to suck 450GB of data over my connection that month.
They said that if I didn't immediately curtail my traffic, I would not only be disconnected, but my service would be terminated for twelve months with no option for reactivation.
I really should have called up Qwest and gotten DSL and cancel my cable. A threat like that, to me, is unacceptable. If I actually had an option for a decent connection, I'd have jumped ship over a year ago.
Well, that C++0x thing or however its called has lambdas and functions closer to being a first class construct...so thats pretty much exactly whats happening already, give or take:)
Have you looked at the syntax? You're basically just binding functions together in template parameters, then invoking them. Normally, I'd be pleased as punch that it's being included but... DAMN is it ugly syntax.
Infinite data structures can be handled naturally. Here's a function that generates the infinite list of fibbonacci numbers: fibs x y = x : (fibs y (x + y))
Which doesn't help me understand how to apply infinite recursion of a lambda to my immediate problem, which may be as trivial as asynchronously handling arbitrary messages which may or may not be related in a direct sequence.
I'm sick of seeing the Fibonacci example. It doesn't help me understand the language at all. It just tells me, "O HAI I HAS TAIL RECURSION." Good for you. Now show me how to do other things.
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It's more than 2-3 extra lines. IE8 and IE9 don't have XHR2, so you have to use the XDomainRequest ActiveX control, which behaves differently, doesn't support anything other than GET and POST, and is riddled with silly bugs like, "if the progress handler isn't set, requests won't be processed at all in IE9, with no errors."
Never mind the fact that the XHR object in IE8/9 is broken as all hell.
And if there is, he's trying to kill us off.
Even outside the area of software and genetics patents, it's hard to make a case that patents meet the requirements of the Constitution, which states that they must exist to encourage invention for the betterment of culture and society. Patents do not engender innovation (invention does happen without patents), and the monopoly protection they afford does not improve culture and society, and in fact results in lower quality, higher prices, and less innovation (since no one is truly permitted to improve on an invention).
What's the patent FUD, specifically? I'm not talking about some obscure part of the Winforms API, I mean in the core language itself.
Microsoft made some veiled threats a few years ago, intimating that their deal with Novell for Mono was exclusive. No one is really privy to the terms of that arrangement, but it made a lot of people really nervous.
And you forget that C++ has a giant environment to install as well, but due to age, that is generally part of the OS as is.
C++ is quite capable of operating entirely without a run-time environment. It depends only on the C++ standard library and the C standard library, which, while implemented by the OS, are completely optional.
In time, modern generation languages will end up in the same category. In fact, Windows Vista and 7 already come with .NET pre-installed, so there's no need to download anything to run a .NET app.
But this is not the case on non-Windows platforms.
They already do, to varying degrees: Apache has a wiki entry describing levels of support.
The FQA gives the word "disingenuous" a bad name. The author spends a lot of time with red herrings, straw men, and minutiae, and never actually seems to have a point. Worse, many of his claims and assertions are flat-out wrong, or at the very least, badly misleading.
Calling it a "pack of lies" would be unfair to packs of lies.
auto is the default behavior of newly-declared objects. It simply means "automatic storage duration."
No one actually ever used it, so it was decided that it wouldn't be missed. The new meaning ("automatic type") is clearer and more useful, IMO.
He's referring to the fact that the C++11 lambda syntax is sugar for functors - simple classes with an overloaded operator().
Boost's Lambda library constructs functors with a rather bare syntax as well, though it's more error-prone and difficult to use.
and eliminate Software Patents entirely.
Or, better, eliminate patents entirely.
They serve no useful purpose, expect to stunt economic growth and hinder innovation. Why keep them around?
Get the OpenGL Superbible. It's quite good.
Also consider getting a book on "3D Graphics" that uses OpenGL for its examples, rather than a book on OpenGL. The difference is quite stark.
As far as I'm concerned, if it's not HTML that I can link to, it doesn't exist, ergo OpenGL is largely undocumented.
Really? It's been published as PDFs (and HTML references up to the current Red Book edition) for as long as I can remember.
All of the .so files are distributed as binary files. That includes their libGL.so.
You're thinking of the .ko file, which is compiled against the specific Linux kernel you have installed (and incidentally linked against a precompiled object file), and which is non-portable except to systems running the same kernel version, with the same .config and built with the same version of GCC.
Everything else is binary.
This is inccorect. DirectX 10 does work on Windows XP, it is just not officially supported by Microsoft.
And this is incorrect. The Alky project went down. It was never a complete implementation. Most of the features that worked could be enabled in DX9 mode anyway - they just weren't.
And the guy that wrote it said in no uncertain terms that he has zero interest in starting it back up.
The summary here is horrible. It doesn't actually have vi keybindings. The default bindings are decidedly vi-like, but it's hardly a selling-point of the browser. The vi bindings are merely a convenience to get you started in configuring it. In fact, the whole thing is quite unlike vi in many ways. You virtually have to implement all of the vi bindings yourself if you want more than just hjkl.
The real selling point is that you can configure everything that the browser can do. Everything from the way cookies are handled to the way the UI functions.
They did precisely the same thing with the PS2. Early games were kinda shitty because no one could figure out how to program it. Fast-forward 7+ years and newer games are getting more elaborate visuals and take better advantage of the very unusual hardware.
I imagine a lot of people felt this way about the PS1 when it came out.
So where do I buy an actual panel?
I can buy LCDs of many types from many vendors, but I've yet to see an OLED device. Even transflective LCD displays are hard to come by.
^W-v and ^W-s :vsp and :sp
If you're using Vim 7, :help tab-page
My terminal is wide (170+ chars), so I vsplit a lot.
After a suggestion from someone else, I started using this:
set list listchars=tab:>trail:-
It's more readable, IMO.
I saw this game at PAX this year. It makes a game out of an audio visualization of any song in your collection.
It's a Steam game and it works (mostly) in Wine, too.
Forget music for games, get a game for your music!
The real question is why you pay $15 for a magazine that is 85% multi-page ads and 5% content.
I asked about that when they called me last month. They told me, quote, "You'll need to find your own solution."
Last month, I got a little carried away with binary newsgroups.
I got a phone call from Comcast. They informed me that I had managed to suck 450GB of data over my connection that month.
They said that if I didn't immediately curtail my traffic, I would not only be disconnected, but my service would be terminated for twelve months with no option for reactivation.
I really should have called up Qwest and gotten DSL and cancel my cable. A threat like that, to me, is unacceptable. If I actually had an option for a decent connection, I'd have jumped ship over a year ago.
Well, that C++0x thing or however its called has lambdas and functions closer to being a first class construct...so thats pretty much exactly whats happening already, give or take :)
Have you looked at the syntax? You're basically just binding functions together in template parameters, then invoking them. Normally, I'd be pleased as punch that it's being included but... DAMN is it ugly syntax.
Infinite data structures can be handled naturally. Here's a function that generates the infinite list of fibbonacci numbers:
fibs x y = x : (fibs y (x + y))
Which doesn't help me understand how to apply infinite recursion of a lambda to my immediate problem, which may be as trivial as asynchronously handling arbitrary messages which may or may not be related in a direct sequence.
I'm sick of seeing the Fibonacci example. It doesn't help me understand the language at all. It just tells me, "O HAI I HAS TAIL RECURSION." Good for you. Now show me how to do other things.