Are we sure it isn't because Mozilla actually has advanced in features and functions? When I go back to using IE, I feel crippled! No one I know uses IE, unless they have to.
After more than 15 years in Unix-land, why did I make *that* move? What was I thinking? I'm so glad that it was about that time that Linux made Unix accessible "for the rest of us".
I'm on Slashdot so I haven't read the article, of course. But I have read other articles and books written by Mr. Pascal.
If I recall correctly, his usual rant is not that SQL isn't object-oriented; Quite the contrary. He feels (or used to feel) that SQL -- the actual RDBMS part of it -- is fine, as is (as per Cobb), but that it are the *vendors* who have missed the mark.
In fact he goes so far as to say that OO DBMSes are redundant. No one needs an OO DBMS if the real McCoy (RDBMS) were produced by a worthy vendor.
Perhaps, if MS can open up their code (little by little), I suppose Fabian could come around. But I don't see why he needs to -- as I think the whole OO-RDBMS thing is just another way to make a n extra buck, if you're a vendor.
But seriously, I got D's and F's all through gradeschool and highschool, except those classes which intrigued me -- chemistry, math, biology.
When I got to college, to my surprise, I maintained a 4.0 average throughout. Go figure.
I think it has to do with self-direction. Usually, if I can chose the subject I want to focus on, I excel. Otherwise, if it's something that I have to learn, I can't focus enough mental energy to light a pen bulb.
I used to think the reason was related to travel. From birth, until I was college age, the average time I spent in one country was about three or four years. The longest I stayed in the same school was two years.
But now my oldest son (just entering college) has had the same issue with grades and he has lived in the same town his whole life. (So it's probably not environmental.)
Bottom line, you will probably LOVE college. Hang in there, bro!
Not to 'bash' or anything, but...
on
OpenGL in PHP
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I confess: I've been migrating away from bash and Perl script development, toward using PHP CGI scripts, for a while. It's just too convenient to not use as a CLI scripting language.
I like this thin-minded quote, "For us to accept Tnenbaum's argument, Linus Torvalds at 21, with one year of C programming, was Doug Comer, an accomplished computer scientist, or smarter than the Coherent team, and of course a better programmer than the good professor too."
Let's see:
Edison started inventing at age 12
Alexander Graham Bell started inventing at age 18
Chester Greenwood applied for his first pattent at age 17
Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical adding machine at age 19
Philo Farnsworth invented the television at age 14
Margaret Knight invented the modern loom at age 12
Of course each of these individuals stole their ideas from others (they must have, given their age) and were able to bring their inventions to market without the aid of a single, solitary other person -- much like the story of Linux.
Wow! That one actually made me feel the urge to enlarge my chin! I couldn't explain the feeling, it was just there. When I read it again, the feeling just got stronger.
Then it dawned on me. There's like a hidden message within the text. Can you make it out? It's there if you look hard enough. I'm sure of it.
Have been puzzled over this, too, as I'm a great fan of Postgres (and don't use MySQL at all, any more). What I wonder is, could it be license related?
Seriously. People moan about the same thing when it comes to Linux vs the BSDs. Why is Linux SO much more popular? Well, in the case of the database wars, MySQL is LGPL and Postgres is BSD licensed. It's just too similar a corelation to ignore.
My own sense of value says: If I were to contribute code/support/religious-zeal to a project, I would want to throw my weight behind a license (GPL) that would not risk diminishing the value of my effort.
At the risk of being modded Flaimbait, it's as if the GPL derivatives are like a marriage license and BSD is like being associated with a town slut. Maybe people in general sense this "legitimacy" issue and avoid openly promoting software that's er... slut-like.
So then, if the above stands to reason (and I'm not saying it does), what analogous relationship could one attribute to an MS EULA? Bondage?
A successful business is kept alive and grows, not through forces of conviction, but through the forces of convection.
1) Put up a site where people can "order" Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, et al
2) Charge a reasonable fee (e.g. $5-15 USD, not $50-150 USD and not $0)
3) Take the proceeds and pay for as many ads as you can afford, all clicks pointing back to the web site
4)...
5) Do not profit -- put all proceeds towards more ads
With a machine like this, you will blow away all competition.
My personal impression, summed up in one word: Patchwork.
I really appreciate the seamless consistency of KDE. It really annoys me to work in the inconsistent environment that is Gnome. I don't have time to fight the environment to make it look/feel the way I need it to (i.e. consistent).
For example, if you have clients -- say a CPA firm -- and they express how sick they are of Microsoft, and would you recommend an alternative (when this first happened to me, I tried to pinch myself and wake up, then picked my jaw off the floor). Now imagine what you're going to recommend: Gnome? No way in hell. Not when KDE offers magnitudes greater user-friendliness (read: consistency). Come on, be honest.
Gnome is written by geeks, for geeks. A lot would have to change for that to not be true. Even Novell, who purchased Ximian, aren't touching the SuSE formula (i.e. KDE is still the default).
I had:
* sound probelms -- horrid noise, each time sound played
* yum problems -- probably repository overload on the day after FC2 was available
* couldn't find many packages -- see below
* general KDE flakiness -- zero screen savers available
* annoyances -- could not find a way to get it to 'default' anyone's login into KDE (manual change required, each time)
Even though I'd selected "Everything", many, many packages were not included. I searched high and low for gcc -- yes, gcc. No sign of any compiler.
So I re-installed by 1) Manually selecting "everything", but 2) leaving out Gnome desktop, altogether.
Everything I've checked now works. KDE of course is the default. Sound works just fine. All packages are where they should be -- found gcc, et al.
Now it's a real joy to run FC2. Just get a copy of Synaptic and load all the "wrong-license, pattent-issues" packages. BTW, this all occurred on my Averatec 3150H. The only remaining annoyance is the touch-pad mouse doesn't click-on-tap like it did with FC1. No problem, here, though, I plugged in a USB mouse and it just worked, scroll-wheel and all!
Here we go again... So, why is MS IIS so much more exploited than is Apache? Why is MS Exchange more exploited than 'sendmail' (these days)? Why is MS SQL more exploited than Oracle?
Answer: Because they are so much more exploitable; Not because they are more popular.
Buffalo Spammer won't ya come out tonight
Come out tonight
Come out tonight
Buffalo Spammer won't ya come out tonight
Aaaaand...
Dance by the light of the moon.
Thank you all. I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip you're saloon maid.
Buffalo Spammer won't you come out tonight.
Come out tonight.
Come out tonight.
Buffalo Spammer won't you come out tonight.
Aaaaaaand...
Dance by the light of the moon.
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Are we sure it isn't because Mozilla actually has advanced in features and functions? When I go back to using IE, I feel crippled! No one I know uses IE, unless they have to.
Purchasing Windows 98.
After more than 15 years in Unix-land, why did I make *that* move? What was I thinking? I'm so glad that it was about that time that Linux made Unix accessible "for the rest of us".
I'm on Slashdot so I haven't read the article, of course. But I have read other articles and books written by Mr. Pascal.
If I recall correctly, his usual rant is not that SQL isn't object-oriented; Quite the contrary. He feels (or used to feel) that SQL -- the actual RDBMS part of it -- is fine, as is (as per Cobb), but that it are the *vendors* who have missed the mark.
In fact he goes so far as to say that OO DBMSes are redundant. No one needs an OO DBMS if the real McCoy (RDBMS) were produced by a worthy vendor.
Perhaps, if MS can open up their code (little by little), I suppose Fabian could come around. But I don't see why he needs to -- as I think the whole OO-RDBMS thing is just another way to make a n extra buck, if you're a vendor.
Slashdot! Point out my idiocy. I can take it.
You're an idiot.
From the post, it's hard to tell...
With this decision the 13,000 Desktops and Servers of the city administration will be migrated to Linux.
and then
CSU, which has just won the European elections, said they won't support Linux
So, which is it? Can someone who knows the political landscape explain? Much appreciated.
Yet Another Dupe?
My long lost twin! Welcome home!
But seriously, I got D's and F's all through gradeschool and highschool, except those classes which intrigued me -- chemistry, math, biology. When I got to college, to my surprise, I maintained a 4.0 average throughout. Go figure.
I think it has to do with self-direction. Usually, if I can chose the subject I want to focus on, I excel. Otherwise, if it's something that I have to learn, I can't focus enough mental energy to light a pen bulb.
I used to think the reason was related to travel. From birth, until I was college age, the average time I spent in one country was about three or four years. The longest I stayed in the same school was two years.
But now my oldest son (just entering college) has had the same issue with grades and he has lived in the same town his whole life. (So it's probably not environmental.)
Bottom line, you will probably LOVE college. Hang in there, bro!
I confess: I've been migrating away from bash and Perl script development, toward using PHP CGI scripts, for a while. It's just too convenient to not use as a CLI scripting language.
YOU SUCK POND WATER!
(ok, maybe that's yet-another good reason)
I like this thin-minded quote, "For us to accept Tnenbaum's argument, Linus Torvalds at 21, with one year of C programming, was Doug Comer, an accomplished computer scientist, or smarter than the Coherent team, and of course a better programmer than the good professor too."
Let's see:
Edison started inventing at age 12
Alexander Graham Bell started inventing at age 18
Chester Greenwood applied for his first pattent at age 17
Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical adding machine at age 19
Philo Farnsworth invented the television at age 14
Margaret Knight invented the modern loom at age 12
Of course each of these individuals stole their ideas from others (they must have, given their age) and were able to bring their inventions to market without the aid of a single, solitary other person -- much like the story of Linux.
"To rule them all.
And in the darkness BIND them."
Like, Duh... So obvious.
Wow! That one actually made me feel the urge to enlarge my chin! I couldn't explain the feeling, it was just there. When I read it again, the feeling just got stronger.
Then it dawned on me. There's like a hidden message within the text. Can you make it out? It's there if you look hard enough. I'm sure of it.
Have been puzzled over this, too, as I'm a great fan of Postgres (and don't use MySQL at all, any more). What I wonder is, could it be license related?
Seriously. People moan about the same thing when it comes to Linux vs the BSDs. Why is Linux SO much more popular? Well, in the case of the database wars, MySQL is LGPL and Postgres is BSD licensed. It's just too similar a corelation to ignore.
My own sense of value says: If I were to contribute code/support/religious-zeal to a project, I would want to throw my weight behind a license (GPL) that would not risk diminishing the value of my effort.
At the risk of being modded Flaimbait, it's as if the GPL derivatives are like a marriage license and BSD is like being associated with a town slut. Maybe people in general sense this "legitimacy" issue and avoid openly promoting software that's er... slut-like.
So then, if the above stands to reason (and I'm not saying it does), what analogous relationship could one attribute to an MS EULA? Bondage?
A successful business is kept alive and grows, not through forces of conviction, but through the forces of convection.
...
1) Put up a site where people can "order" Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, et al
2) Charge a reasonable fee (e.g. $5-15 USD, not $50-150 USD and not $0)
3) Take the proceeds and pay for as many ads as you can afford, all clicks pointing back to the web site
4)
5) Do not profit -- put all proceeds towards more ads
With a machine like this, you will blow away all competition.
You mean something like ... switchdesk ?/p.
:-/
Exactly! Didn't work for me...
Even though you make me sad by refusing to try GNOME, I'll help you out with this problem: try adding "psmouse.proto=imps" to your kernel options.
(For those reading the above post at Threshold: +2)
BTW. Thanks for the help -- very informative.
My personal impression, summed up in one word: Patchwork.
I really appreciate the seamless consistency of KDE. It really annoys me to work in the inconsistent environment that is Gnome. I don't have time to fight the environment to make it look/feel the way I need it to (i.e. consistent).
For example, if you have clients -- say a CPA firm -- and they express how sick they are of Microsoft, and would you recommend an alternative (when this first happened to me, I tried to pinch myself and wake up, then picked my jaw off the floor). Now imagine what you're going to recommend: Gnome? No way in hell. Not when KDE offers magnitudes greater user-friendliness (read: consistency). Come on, be honest.
Gnome is written by geeks, for geeks. A lot would have to change for that to not be true. Even Novell, who purchased Ximian, aren't touching the SuSE formula (i.e. KDE is still the default).
I had:
* sound probelms -- horrid noise, each time sound played
* yum problems -- probably repository overload on the day after FC2 was available
* couldn't find many packages -- see below
* general KDE flakiness -- zero screen savers available
* annoyances -- could not find a way to get it to 'default' anyone's login into KDE (manual change required, each time)
Even though I'd selected "Everything", many, many packages were not included. I searched high and low for gcc -- yes, gcc. No sign of any compiler.
So I re-installed by 1) Manually selecting "everything", but 2) leaving out Gnome desktop, altogether.
Everything I've checked now works. KDE of course is the default. Sound works just fine. All packages are where they should be -- found gcc, et al.
Now it's a real joy to run FC2. Just get a copy of Synaptic and load all the "wrong-license, pattent-issues" packages. BTW, this all occurred on my Averatec 3150H. The only remaining annoyance is the touch-pad mouse doesn't click-on-tap like it did with FC1. No problem, here, though, I plugged in a USB mouse and it just worked, scroll-wheel and all!
Here we go again... So, why is MS IIS so much more exploited than is Apache? Why is MS Exchange more exploited than 'sendmail' (these days)? Why is MS SQL more exploited than Oracle?
Answer: Because they are so much more exploitable; Not because they are more popular.
BTW, welcome to slashdot.
Java can be quite fast, if you just imagine it running on a beowulf cluster.
Thought it was Fonzerelly's Office
No, this thread is about desktop developers... Uh... Oh...
developers
Developers
deVelpers
deVELOPERS
DEVELOPERS
DEVELOPERS
DEVELOPERS!
DEVELOPERS!!
DEVELOPERS!!!
Crap! He's got me doing it!
Buffalo Spammer won't ya come out tonight
Come out tonight
Come out tonight
Buffalo Spammer won't ya come out tonight
Aaaaand...
Dance by the light of the moon.
Thank you all. I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip you're saloon maid.
Buffalo Spammer won't you come out tonight.
Come out tonight.
Come out tonight.
Buffalo Spammer won't you come out tonight.
Aaaaaaand...
Dance by the light of the moon.
(Argh! Now I have to go take a shower...)
Ok, so please excuse my miserable attempt at humor. Just have to wonder, does anyone else think the world is getting sicker and sicker?
Was the topic of a recent conversation with friends.