I suspect that you are retarded. But even if I'm wrong, it's clear to me that you are deeply ignorant of anything that's being discussed in this forum, or in the original article which either you did not bother to read, or you were unable to understand.
But don't worry too much about it, because you're obviously the majority, and there's safety in numbers here on Channel Slashdot's Fun-Time Circus Show.
You say that like it's bad advice. I'd much rather teach a new programmer to be careful than to be conservative. Ideally, a good mix of both would be taught, but what's the point of having a tiny executable if you can't maintain it because it was written poorly? In terms of progression of knowledge, it seems to me that the best method would be teaching someone to code carefully, and *then* teach them to code efficiently. Only experience will allow someone to do either well.
C/C++ isn't any more closed source than PHP is. The original poster is just Open Source Cheerleeding, and this article is only tangentially related to Open Source.
The fact that your shirts have prints on them, says a lot. I'm not pushing suits, but in a business environment T-Shirts with prints on them are just distracting, not to mention generally tacky. I do web-design for a University's transit system, and we don't have a dress code. My boss likes to wear his 80s hair band T-Shirts. I have no sympathy for you.
Really? Seems like a malevolent JS file could easily trick an unsuspecting user into posting their information to another system. Sure, the browser might warn them, but a lot of users wouldn't even think twice.
That's so absurd. I could just mail myself an unsealed envelope, and get it back postmarked. Then, whenever I felt like "copyrighting" something, I would just stick it in my handy envelope, seal it up, and say "Hey, look what I have here!".
So, I'm guessing you're either a liar, or your "lawyer buddy" is inept. Your choice.
what native widget set would that be? GTK? KDE? Maybe Motif? Or Win32 under Windows. Cocoa under MacOS?
There are no "native" widget sets that you can count on for an application that's as cross-platform as Mozilla is. And although it would be nice to see widgets in the style of the native system, not all widgets are supported by each of the systems that Mozilla runs under.
On top of this, the speed at which an application can draw to itself is not really any better than the speed that the Operating System can draw to the application using most modern toolkits. Yes, sometimes the extra layer of interface can cause a slowdown, but it's hardly the biggest issue, or even a serious problem.
According to the authors it was, as the previous poster suggested, written to allow DVD decoding under Linux. While it's true that the development was done under Windows first, they cited the lack of UDF filesystem drivers under Linux as the reasoning. As soon as those drivers were available, they ported DeCSS over.
"Evil Empire" is derogatory but true? And, let's be honest -- ANY corporate strategy involves making as much money as possible. Should we put a $ in every company's name? Get a life.
Just because you can put enough polygons on the screen at any given time to make the Framerate drop to 10 fps doesn't mean you're taking advantage of what the card can do.
What you're seeing probably aren't compression artifacts. Often when people's videos look crappy under Window Media Player, I find the problem is not the player, but their graphics card's handling of the video data. Going into the player's settings and turning off hardware acceleration usually fixes this problem.
Why is it that every time someone uses the phrase "long run", another poster feels compelled to quote Keynes? As if that somehow refutes the point of the original comment. Yes, it's a clever quote, and it makes a lot of sense, but WE'VE ALL READ IT BEFORE.
Let's see... MS checked to see what it's biggest customer base wanted. Then they implemented those features. They didn't waste time on features that those customers weren't particulary interested in at the time. And we're going to make fun of them for this?
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I suspect that you are retarded. But even if I'm wrong, it's clear to me that you are deeply ignorant of anything that's being discussed in this forum, or in the original article which either you did not bother to read, or you were unable to understand.
But don't worry too much about it, because you're obviously the majority, and there's safety in numbers here on Channel Slashdot's Fun-Time Circus Show.
Sure you can. You just can't connect to the Internet using Walmart's ISP.
No, that's not ironic at all. Just retarded.
The monospaced version of Vera reminds me quite a bit of Lucida Console.
In Soviet Russia, the final 84 digits of Pi use you to root supercomputer.
Maybe it was his Prime Minister. Or his Pizza Man. Wait no, it was his Personal Masseuse. No, no, his Prime Meridian. Pre Menstrual?
No?
Does anyone? know what a PM is supposed to be?
They live in New Hampshire. Not as bad as Minnesota, but clearly they have an idea of what icy roads are like.
You seem to feel pretty strongly about this issue. Why don't you sue someone?
You say that like it's bad advice. I'd much rather teach a new programmer to be careful than to be conservative. Ideally, a good mix of both would be taught, but what's the point of having a tiny executable if you can't maintain it because it was written poorly? In terms of progression of knowledge, it seems to me that the best method would be teaching someone to code carefully, and *then* teach them to code efficiently. Only experience will allow someone to do either well.
Regardless of what the Yahoo "app" was written it, it's no more "Open Source" now than it was before they moved to PHP, now is it?
C/C++ isn't any more closed source than PHP is. The original poster is just Open Source Cheerleeding, and this article is only tangentially related to Open Source.
The fact that your shirts have prints on them, says a lot. I'm not pushing suits, but in a business environment T-Shirts with prints on them are just distracting, not to mention generally tacky. I do web-design for a University's transit system, and we don't have a dress code. My boss likes to wear his 80s hair band T-Shirts. I have no sympathy for you.
Really? Seems like a malevolent JS file could easily trick an unsuspecting user into posting their information to another system. Sure, the browser might warn them, but a lot of users wouldn't even think twice.
Vous, huh? Was that a command? Oh well.
Still... It's pretty weird to use BOTH "viruses" and "virii" in the same post. At least pick one.
That's so absurd. I could just mail myself an unsealed envelope, and get it back postmarked. Then, whenever I felt like "copyrighting" something, I would just stick it in my handy envelope, seal it up, and say "Hey, look what I have here!".
So, I'm guessing you're either a liar, or your "lawyer buddy" is inept. Your choice.
what native widget set would that be? GTK? KDE? Maybe Motif? Or Win32 under Windows. Cocoa under MacOS?
There are no "native" widget sets that you can count on for an application that's as cross-platform as Mozilla is. And although it would be nice to see widgets in the style of the native system, not all widgets are supported by each of the systems that Mozilla runs under.
On top of this, the speed at which an application can draw to itself is not really any better than the speed that the Operating System can draw to the application using most modern toolkits. Yes, sometimes the extra layer of interface can cause a slowdown, but it's hardly the biggest issue, or even a serious problem.
According to the authors it was, as the previous poster suggested, written to allow DVD decoding under Linux. While it's true that the development was done under Windows first, they cited the lack of UDF filesystem drivers under Linux as the reasoning. As soon as those drivers were available, they ported DeCSS over.
"Evil Empire" is derogatory but true? And, let's be honest -- ANY corporate strategy involves making as much money as possible. Should we put a $ in every company's name? Get a life.
The above comment doesn't make any sense at all. I think that much is clear to everyone.
Just because you can put enough polygons on the screen at any given time to make the Framerate drop to 10 fps doesn't mean you're taking advantage of what the card can do.
You can explain how quicksort works without going into serious math.
What you're seeing probably aren't compression artifacts. Often when people's videos look crappy under Window Media Player, I find the problem is not the player, but their graphics card's handling of the video data. Going into the player's settings and turning off hardware acceleration usually fixes this problem.
Thank you.
Sounds like good business to me.