However, a lot of developers like Linux and BSD, and find a standard Unix-like environment very comfortable. (Mac OSX is Unix, but the environment is very different.)
"Environment" as in "desktop environment", presumably, as the command-line environment is quite Unix-like (and is where I spend most of my time as a developer).
But few, if any, of them are using it as a development platform. That's what's being discussed here.
It's easy to say that, if you consider the money that is spend by "big (os) companies" to teach innocent but very influence-able children that there is no alternative. Humanity has proven that there are not many people who really can think and decide for themselves, especially when they are pushed in one direction in their childhood. By the time they should be able to decide, they are already crusted with the prepaid choice. That is how it works: "big (os) companies" only pay if they earn much more later.
There is no place for humanitarian values in economics, unless it pays off. Economics is like nature: it's hard, undeveloped and ruthless, the law of the jungle.
BTW, you are aware that "it", in the sentence you're quoting, refers to Android and iOS, not to regular Linux, so you're clearly not speaking here about people being influenced by "the big (os) companies" not to consider Linux as a desktop or development platform OS.
I guess you never did Linux C++ server side code development.
Because anybody who does Linux C++ server side code development would either 1) use an Android or iOS phone or tablet as their development machine (no, not as a client to test the server, as a development machine running their development environment) or 2) know that few developers in any software field have Linux desktops as their development platforms?
(Otherwise, there's no valid reason to conclude that somebody who says that 1) few people use Android or iOS machines as development platforms or 2) that many people use Linux boxes as development platforms must ipso facto not have done Linux C++ server-side code development.)
Well considering well over a billion people on this planet actually use Android (Linux kernel) and IOS (BSD derived)
But few, if any, of them are using it as a development platform. That's what's being discussed here.
Yeah, it's a troll, but the appropriate response is that there are probably a significant number of developers with Linux desktops on their development machines.
Prices are going to tank, not because of laws and regulations (that are owned by corporations), but because the cable monopoly is at an end. IPTV is here, and competition is going to kill these horrible "services" that bought exclusivity through the equally horrible political system.
And who's going to provide the "IP" part of "IPTV"? One of those companies that bought exclusivity?
I can't assume that delivery of the channels to the cable company is the whole problem.
So what might be the rest of the problem?
I'm guessing from "pixilate" that it's digital cable, so you're probably getting the DOCSIS MAC layer for Internet access and your TV programs multiplexed over MPEG-2 transport, and maybe whatever's running on top of IP (TCP, whatever's running on top of UDP) can cope with a bad cable infrastructure from the head end to your home than can the MPEG-2 Part 2 for the TV, if that's another part of the problem.
The QUALITY of the delivery infrastructure is a significant part of the problem. It's a lot easier to deliver fast internet over cable than it is to deliver tolerable video content. My rural cable provider has endless problem with TV channels that freeze, lose audio, and pixilate. A little winter snow clogs the dishes over which the company receives its feed, and so do summer storms. Through all this their broadband service over the same cable plugs steadily away ay 80M down, 8M up, 28 msec ping. I'm moving toward cord cutting because the technology itself works better than receiving the same content as cable video.
I.e., if they could get the TV shows over the same wire/fibre that delivers the Internet, or another such wire/fibre, cable video would work fine for you, so the delivery infrastructure with the quality problems is the infrastructure that delivers the TV channels to the cable company?
He didn't even say what his native language is, so we can hardly know if studying it would help his French.
He did say what it wasn't - "(but neither english nor french are my native language)". So presumably it would help his French only if it were sufficiently closely related to French.
OK, where is the fanboy in question? All I saw in the post to which you're responding is damnation with faint praise ("is still working on phasing in ADSL", "They've almost got service to my entire block", It only took them fifteen years since they started", etc.).
Fiat Chrysler also agreed to buy back more than a half-million vehicles -- mostly Ram pickups -- whose defective suspension parts could cause a loss of control, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement Sunday. Owners will be able to trade in certain Jeeps for above-market value, and the company must hire an independent monitor approved by NHTSA.
(emphasis mine).
I was unaware that Ram pickups and Jeeps were "made in Italy"; I was under the impression that those were products made in North America.
Until those retards at Apple decided to remove the perfectly good working FTP implementation from the Finder.
Finder? D00d, that's a user-mode NFS server with an FTP client you've got there; the Finder just thinks it's a remote mount. (The UI stuff comes from a combination of the FTPFS plugin for the NetFS framework and NetAuthAgent/NetAuthSysAgent.)
And in what fashion was it "removed"? If I go to ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub in Safari on Yosemite, it still does the mount.
Remind me again why phones and tablets needed a different programming language?
For iOS, the current main programming language not a different programming language for the one heavily used for OS X desktop applications. (And the language Apple would like to see be a main programming language is also intended both for iOS and OS X.)
For Android, you have an OS with a different history; it uses a different language from the ones heavily used for applications on desktop operating systems, and, as they didn't try to make it into a desktop operating system (not many very open niches in that ecosystem), that didn't turn it into a popular language for desktop platforms. As for why they chose Java, well, maybe Andy Rubin liked it for some reason.
For Windows Phone/Windows RT/whatever, Microsoft didn't go for a different language from one of the languages for the desktop. Why they went.NET-only, I don't know.
So phones and tablets don't need different languages from laptops and desktops; the mix of languages is different for historical reasons.
Google (and all other search engines) try their best to return the results the user has asked for.
More precisely, they try their best to return the results they infer that the user would really want, based on the syntax of the query.
It's never going to be perfect at doing this, if only because people use the same phrases in different ways from time to time.
Yes, it's never going to be perfect at inferring what the user wants. The original poster is complaining that Google has been getting worse at inferring what he wants, especially for particular narrow queries.
I've seen the same problems he has. Perhaps that's an unfortunate side-effect of trying to do a better job of handling most users' queries.
If Google (or the search engine of your choice) is returning results that aren't what you want, then your best option is to make the query more specific. Either add relevant keywords, search for a phrase instead of individual words (using quotes), or exclude some other keywords (in Google, prepend - to the beginning of the word you want to exclude...other search engines are probably similar).
Yes, the original poster is quite aware of quoting; as he says, "Searching for exact strings is an option with Google". What he wants is a search engine that doesn't try as hard to infer what the user really wants, rather than one that has to be forced, with more use of quotes, to just look for the damn string. Perhaps that's a sufficiently small niche that no search engine would bother to offer that, and he'll just have to live with typing more double-quote characters.
How is that Utopia working out for all of you people that keep thinking more Government will solve all our problems?
Are there, in fact, any people making that rather-broad argument, as opposed to, say, arguing that some particular problem might be better handled with more government?
That's sort of how the libertarian viewpoint evolves, I guess. Like Reagan started out as a democrat, presumably because he cared about people and favored social reforms. Then after living through the Communist purges in the McCarthy era,
Living through and not exactly vigorously opposing them. Whilst he did say he didn't think that the Communist Party should be outlawed:
Whether the party should be outlawed, I agree with the gentlemen that preceded me that that is a matter for the Government to decide. As a citizen I would hesitate, or not like, to see any political party outlawed on the basis of its political ideology. We have spent 170 years in this country on the basis that democracy is strong enough to stand up and fight against the inroads of any ideology.
he was, as the article says, a bit of a "friendly witness".
So I rather doubt that McCarthyism made him a Republican.
(Unless you meant that all those horrible Commies in Hollywood made him anti-government.)
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Of course the Z architecture is modified PowerPC processor based
So you're claiming here that the uops into which the z13 microprocessor cracks the non-single-cycle z/Architecture instructions are Power ISA instructions?
However, a lot of developers like Linux and BSD, and find a standard Unix-like environment very comfortable. (Mac OSX is Unix, but the environment is very different.)
"Environment" as in "desktop environment", presumably, as the command-line environment is quite Unix-like (and is where I spend most of my time as a developer).
But few, if any, of them are using it as a development platform. That's what's being discussed here.
It's easy to say that, if you consider the money that is spend by "big (os) companies" to teach innocent but very influence-able children that there is no alternative. Humanity has proven that there are not many people who really can think and decide for themselves, especially when they are pushed in one direction in their childhood. By the time they should be able to decide, they are already crusted with the prepaid choice. That is how it works: "big (os) companies" only pay if they earn much more later.
There is no place for humanitarian values in economics, unless it pays off. Economics is like nature: it's hard, undeveloped and ruthless, the law of the jungle.
BTW, you are aware that "it", in the sentence you're quoting, refers to Android and iOS, not to regular Linux, so you're clearly not speaking here about people being influenced by "the big (os) companies" not to consider Linux as a desktop or development platform OS.
I guess you never did Linux C++ server side code development.
Because anybody who does Linux C++ server side code development would either 1) use an Android or iOS phone or tablet as their development machine (no, not as a client to test the server, as a development machine running their development environment) or 2) know that few developers in any software field have Linux desktops as their development platforms?
(Otherwise, there's no valid reason to conclude that somebody who says that 1) few people use Android or iOS machines as development platforms or 2) that many people use Linux boxes as development platforms must ipso facto not have done Linux C++ server-side code development.)
Ah the troll is strong with this one.
Well considering well over a billion people on this planet actually use Android (Linux kernel) and IOS (BSD derived)
But few, if any, of them are using it as a development platform. That's what's being discussed here.
Yeah, it's a troll, but the appropriate response is that there are probably a significant number of developers with Linux desktops on their development machines.
Prices are going to tank, not because of laws and regulations (that are owned by corporations), but because the cable monopoly is at an end. IPTV is here, and competition is going to kill these horrible "services" that bought exclusivity through the equally horrible political system.
And who's going to provide the "IP" part of "IPTV"? One of those companies that bought exclusivity?
I can't assume that delivery of the channels to the cable company is the whole problem.
So what might be the rest of the problem?
I'm guessing from "pixilate" that it's digital cable, so you're probably getting the DOCSIS MAC layer for Internet access and your TV programs multiplexed over MPEG-2 transport, and maybe whatever's running on top of IP (TCP, whatever's running on top of UDP) can cope with a bad cable infrastructure from the head end to your home than can the MPEG-2 Part 2 for the TV, if that's another part of the problem.
The QUALITY of the delivery infrastructure is a significant part of the problem. It's a lot easier to deliver fast internet over cable than it is to deliver tolerable video content. My rural cable provider has endless problem with TV channels that freeze, lose audio, and pixilate. A little winter snow clogs the dishes over which the company receives its feed, and so do summer storms. Through all this their broadband service over the same cable plugs steadily away ay 80M down, 8M up, 28 msec ping. I'm moving toward cord cutting because the technology itself works better than receiving the same content as cable video.
I.e., if they could get the TV shows over the same wire/fibre that delivers the Internet, or another such wire/fibre, cable video would work fine for you, so the delivery infrastructure with the quality problems is the infrastructure that delivers the TV channels to the cable company?
AUTOMATIC LEAD TOOLS IS BEST FOR BUSINESS
Actually, most tools have to be made from harder metals than lead.
He didn't even say what his native language is, so we can hardly know if studying it would help his French.
He did say what it wasn't - "(but neither english nor french are my native language)". So presumably it would help his French only if it were sufficiently closely related to French.
OK, where is the fanboy in question? All I saw in the post to which you're responding is damnation with faint praise ("is still working on phasing in ADSL", "They've almost got service to my entire block", It only took them fifteen years since they started", etc.).
So, from the "EUR", we can identify "here", for both of those posts, as "some Eurozone country".
Could somebody be so kind as to indicate which particular Eurozone country/countries are being referred to here?
In the UK openreach VDSL is called "fibre". Here it is called "superfast fibre".
To be fair, it sounds as if they are running more fibre, just not necessarily all the way to your home.
> Start Me Up
Part of the lyrics:
"You make a grown man cry"
Another part of the lyrics:
"You make a dead man cum".
You're welcome.
Correct cow battery staple.
... Wrong product, buy wine!
As TFA says:
(emphasis mine).
I was unaware that Ram pickups and Jeeps were "made in Italy"; I was under the impression that those were products made in North America.
Until those retards at Apple decided to remove the perfectly good working FTP implementation from the Finder.
Finder? D00d, that's a user-mode NFS server with an FTP client you've got there; the Finder just thinks it's a remote mount. (The UI stuff comes from a combination of the FTPFS plugin for the NetFS framework and NetAuthAgent/NetAuthSysAgent.)
And in what fashion was it "removed"? If I go to ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub in Safari on Yosemite, it still does the mount.
Thanks - so why don't the charm and the anti-charm go "poof" ?
They might not be antiparticles of each other, as they might differ in color charge.
I think that would violate color confinement because the resulting pentaquark would have a net color.
Red up quark, blue down quark, blue charmed quark, green up quark, antiblue anti-charmed quark. Net color = R+B+B+G-B = R+B+G = colorless. (Shamelessly lifted from the "2015 LHCb results" section of the Wikipedia page for the pentaquark.)
Thanks - so why don't the charm and the anti-charm go "poof" ?
They might not be antiparticles of each other, as they might differ in color charge.
Now wait, maybe she has blinking LED sensitivity? That's a serious issue, especially when you have nothing to do all day but stare at blinking LEDs.
Remember, when a blinking LED is on, it's transmitting electromagnetic radiation....
Remind me again why phones and tablets needed a different programming language?
For iOS, the current main programming language not a different programming language for the one heavily used for OS X desktop applications. (And the language Apple would like to see be a main programming language is also intended both for iOS and OS X.)
For Android, you have an OS with a different history; it uses a different language from the ones heavily used for applications on desktop operating systems, and, as they didn't try to make it into a desktop operating system (not many very open niches in that ecosystem), that didn't turn it into a popular language for desktop platforms. As for why they chose Java, well, maybe Andy Rubin liked it for some reason.
For Windows Phone/Windows RT/whatever, Microsoft didn't go for a different language from one of the languages for the desktop. Why they went .NET-only, I don't know.
So phones and tablets don't need different languages from laptops and desktops; the mix of languages is different for historical reasons.
Google (and all other search engines) try their best to return the results the user has asked for.
More precisely, they try their best to return the results they infer that the user would really want, based on the syntax of the query.
It's never going to be perfect at doing this, if only because people use the same phrases in different ways from time to time.
Yes, it's never going to be perfect at inferring what the user wants. The original poster is complaining that Google has been getting worse at inferring what he wants, especially for particular narrow queries.
I've seen the same problems he has. Perhaps that's an unfortunate side-effect of trying to do a better job of handling most users' queries.
If Google (or the search engine of your choice) is returning results that aren't what you want, then your best option is to make the query more specific. Either add relevant keywords, search for a phrase instead of individual words (using quotes), or exclude some other keywords (in Google, prepend - to the beginning of the word you want to exclude...other search engines are probably similar).
Yes, the original poster is quite aware of quoting; as he says, "Searching for exact strings is an option with Google". What he wants is a search engine that doesn't try as hard to infer what the user really wants, rather than one that has to be forced, with more use of quotes, to just look for the damn string. Perhaps that's a sufficiently small niche that no search engine would bother to offer that, and he'll just have to live with typing more double-quote characters.
Most Nordic countries are smaller than my city (metropolitan area).
You gotta problem with that?
(Or is it movies rather than money?)
How is that Utopia working out for all of you people that keep thinking more Government will solve all our problems?
Are there, in fact, any people making that rather-broad argument, as opposed to, say, arguing that some particular problem might be better handled with more government?
That's sort of how the libertarian viewpoint evolves, I guess. Like Reagan started out as a democrat, presumably because he cared about people and favored social reforms. Then after living through the Communist purges in the McCarthy era,
Living through and not exactly vigorously opposing them. Whilst he did say he didn't think that the Communist Party should be outlawed:
he was, as the article says, a bit of a "friendly witness".
So I rather doubt that McCarthyism made him a Republican.
(Unless you meant that all those horrible Commies in Hollywood made him anti-government.)