If you "taught yourself" C++ at 12, it means that you never learned C or any OO language before it. It makes about as much sense as learning differential equations without calculus, and likely to produce similar results. Knowledge of assembly language could help, however I have never seen a 12 years old with enough patience to actually use assembly, so most likely plenty of important concepts whooshed over your head.
It also may explain why you were "bored" while studying at the university and spent 11 years in "IT" as opposed to software development. Be advised that university courses didn't get any better since last time you were at school, and they still don't tell you what to study to fill gaping holes in your education -- to be honest, I have no idea who does that, I just see consequences of this everywhere.
Consumer protection laws in the (U.S. anyway) are a joke. And no law that I know of is going to FORCE an ISP to provide you with service. Most of these laws are designed to protect the consumer from fraud and deception, NOT to guarantee them service from a particular company.
Not when the company achieves a position of monopoly, advertises it to everyone, then picks and choses customers who cost them the least (be it low bandwidth usage or lack of nuisance paperwork).
Most of these laws are designed to protect the consumer from fraud and deception, NOT to guarantee them service from a particular company. Again, you might get a refund, but no one is going to come in and tell AT&T "You have to have this guy as a customer." If you're aware of any law that would do this, please cite it.
The law does not say what company may be forced to do if it breaks the law -- it's pretty much left to the whims of the judge.
Even US Constitution itself does not claim to contain the exhaustive list of all civil rights, so Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a much better authority on the subject.
They don't need "proof." There is no law that says your cable or phone company *has* to provide you with internet service (it's not a property right like public education).
Yes, there is. Consumer protection laws.
it's not a property right like public education)
Public education is not a property right, it's a civil right, you Libertarian moron.
If he can't make seven or eight figures a year selling the stuff he can't pay his underlings five figures a year to put food on their tables and then they starve and can't do any more work.
Who the Hell is he, the owner of Red Hat?
Even if you love developing for Linux in your spare time you still need a full time job that, somewhere along the line, sells a service or a product. If that sale isn't made, you won't have a job and you'll have to look for one instead of working on FOSS. No matter how you slice it, FOSS depends directly on the traditional for-profit market to stay alive.
My job mostly consists of either Linux development or development for Linux. The target is embedded systems, and this is what I am paid to develop for. However:
1. Almost everything I do that is not proprietary software to begin with, is useful for desktop and laptops, and eventually ends up there.
2. The only environment that is useful for my development work is desktop Linux, so I have to support it and occasionally contribute to it, or I will end up without tools. No, Windows or OSX don't cut it.
"Law" is usually some specific relationship of observable phenomena, often represented as a single equation, that usually is derived from, or is an important part of a theory or observation. Law may be still wrong or applicable to a limited range of conditions -- for example, Hooke's law predicts the relationship between deformation and force that is only precise in a very limited range of both parameters, yet it's useful because most of man-made mechanisms operate within that range, and engineers who apply it are well aware of it.
What I was referring to was primarily the 32-bit/64-bit split. On Windows all libraries are still 32-bit, whereas on Linux some people have 32-bit libraries and some have 64-bit libraries, so you have to build for both. Admittedly not that big a headache.
The same "problem" happens on each and every other OS that supports 32-bit and 64-bit environments. Linux is actually nice enough so usually it's only a matter of compiling twice, and not making any unusual assumptions while developing code.
Also I've had some bad luck with binary apps since I've been on Gentoo, the Amazon MP3 downloader for example. I assume the problems were related to libaries that change subtly between minor versions in ways a source-compiled app wouldn't notice (Boost, for example, moved a function from a macro in a header to compiled code in the library).
As opposed to Windows, Linux, like most of Unix-like systems, has both versioned shared libraries AND configurable runtime loader for them. If you have an application that requires libraries of some specific version, you can just install it, and possibly will have to make a wrapper script to load it. Almost all binaries that are not distributed as distribution-supported packages usually have this kind of wrapper and set of libraries distributed with them. Ex: everything from Mozilla, most games, Second Life, etc. If binary is distributed alone, all it takes it to get libraries from a supported system, place them in/usr/lib/that-application-name, move the binary there, then write a wrapper script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH there and call the binary -- and it's only necessary if library versioning didn't do its job silently already by loading older libraries from "compatibility" package. That would be an equivalent of Windows application being distributed with DLLs -- except on Windows this can break the system and on Linux it can't.
These are the kind of reasons I don't like native code when I don't have the source available, and why I like to target managed-code when I can for my own projects. Again I apologize if I've been misusing terms.
"Managed code" has absolutely nothing to do with library versions -- if anything, by using managed code you are bringing a massive infrastructure that supports it, often with corresponding massive amounts version-specific behavior changes. Java and.NET accomplished many things (in my opinion, mostly ones that should've never been accomplished) but reliable cross-platform development and backward/forward compatibility are not among them.
Actually, that does remind me - the last issue I had were ATI's drivers under Ubuntu 8.04. I could not, for the life of me, get it to recognize my monitors correctly, in the proper order. It identified them properly, but it would NOT allow me to position them properly in relation to one another. No amount of deleting the.conf file would allow it to detect AND arrange them properly, so I ended up giving up on it.
How is that supposed to be related to "dependencies"?
ATI drivers, as long as they are configured correctly, allow monitors positioning using regular ServerLayout sections -- what is extremely well documented, and only a complete moron can get it wrong. Layout can not be detected automatically BECAUSE VIDEO CARD DOES NOT KNOW HOW YOU PLACED THE MONITORS ON YOUR DESK.
It's getting near time again for me to give Linux another whirl. I can honestly say that nothing would make me happier to be wrong with my previous assumptions about the viability of Linux. The only thing I require a PC w/ Windows for anymore is gaming (ok, and AutoCAD), and I'm finding that even gaming is being supplanted by consoles for me (PS3 and 360). If they could only get a really good RPG on consoles (no, I mean a GOOD one...)
Most likely AutoCAD will never work on anything but Windows, thanks to some stupid decisions (if not outright sabotage) made by AutoDesk. Other CADs work either natively or under emulation (I used VariCAD for 3D and QCad for 2d, both native on Linux, VariCAD is proprietary).
As a developer, I've tried using a managed-code runtime to stay truly platform agnostic (I.E. not have to produce builds for every OS under the sun). I tried to use Mono and Tao to write a current project
lol wut
which means I now need to compile things, deal with potential segfaults from ABI differences in Linux, the whole headache.
Oh, I see. "ABI differences in Linux" is a code word for "I am a Microsoft marketdroid".
Slashdot Mirror
(pear goes here)
WTF happened to my beloved slashdot?
/b/tards and their obsession with cats.
Yeah, just like any other human in existence that gives a damn about surviving would send spam and Nigerian-style scam letters.
Some companies MAKE PRODUCTS THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT TO USE. Microsoft is not among them.
...that the same "scientific" procedure is applicable to determining if some photo depicts a witch.
If you "taught yourself" C++ at 12, it means that you never learned C or any OO language before it. It makes about as much sense as learning differential equations without calculus, and likely to produce similar results. Knowledge of assembly language could help, however I have never seen a 12 years old with enough patience to actually use assembly, so most likely plenty of important concepts whooshed over your head.
It also may explain why you were "bored" while studying at the university and spent 11 years in "IT" as opposed to software development. Be advised that university courses didn't get any better since last time you were at school, and they still don't tell you what to study to fill gaping holes in your education -- to be honest, I have no idea who does that, I just see consequences of this everywhere.
Joseph Fritzl is a famous Australian animal abuser who survived a stingray attack by hiding behind a paper binder.
Spell checkers don't correct poor grammar, and can't (yet) suggest a better way of writing a whole sentence.
On the other hand, if you accidentally the whole sentence by omitting a verb, millions of people will deliberately follow your example.
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Consumer protection laws in the (U.S. anyway) are a joke. And no law that I know of is going to FORCE an ISP to provide you with service. Most of these laws are designed to protect the consumer from fraud and deception, NOT to guarantee them service from a particular company.
Not when the company achieves a position of monopoly, advertises it to everyone, then picks and choses customers who cost them the least (be it low bandwidth usage or lack of nuisance paperwork).
Most of these laws are designed to protect the consumer from fraud and deception, NOT to guarantee them service from a particular company. Again, you might get a refund, but no one is going to come in and tell AT&T "You have to have this guy as a customer." If you're aware of any law that would do this, please cite it.
The law does not say what company may be forced to do if it breaks the law -- it's pretty much left to the whims of the judge.
Even US Constitution itself does not claim to contain the exhaustive list of all civil rights, so Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a much better authority on the subject.
Consumer protection laws!?!?! You call him a moron???
The fact that the laws are poorly enforced does not means that they don't exist, or that they should not be enforced.
Public Education isn't a right civil or otherwise, you moron!
Go, read for yourself.
They don't need "proof." There is no law that says your cable or phone company *has* to provide you with internet service (it's not a property right like public education).
Yes, there is. Consumer protection laws.
it's not a property right like public education)
Public education is not a property right, it's a civil right, you Libertarian moron.
Of course, it does.
In some places wearing a mask would be illegal -- precisely because people are not supposed to expect privacy there.
I see, this *IS* a raid...
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If he can't make seven or eight figures a year selling the stuff he can't pay his underlings five figures a year to put food on their tables and then they starve and can't do any more work.
Who the Hell is he, the owner of Red Hat?
Even if you love developing for Linux in your spare time you still need a full time job that, somewhere along the line, sells a service or a product. If that sale isn't made, you won't have a job and you'll have to look for one instead of working on FOSS. No matter how you slice it, FOSS depends directly on the traditional for-profit market to stay alive.
My job mostly consists of either Linux development or development for Linux. The target is embedded systems, and this is what I am paid to develop for. However:
1. Almost everything I do that is not proprietary software to begin with, is useful for desktop and laptops, and eventually ends up there.
2. The only environment that is useful for my development work is desktop Linux, so I have to support it and occasionally contribute to it, or I will end up without tools. No, Windows or OSX don't cut it.
"Law" is usually some specific relationship of observable phenomena, often represented as a single equation, that usually is derived from, or is an important part of a theory or observation. Law may be still wrong or applicable to a limited range of conditions -- for example, Hooke's law predicts the relationship between deformation and force that is only precise in a very limited range of both parameters, yet it's useful because most of man-made mechanisms operate within that range, and engineers who apply it are well aware of it.
You forgot to mention that it would require buying Windows to run in virtualbox.
lol wut
What I was referring to was primarily the 32-bit/64-bit split. On Windows all libraries are still 32-bit, whereas on Linux some people have 32-bit libraries and some have 64-bit libraries, so you have to build for both. Admittedly not that big a headache.
The same "problem" happens on each and every other OS that supports 32-bit and 64-bit environments. Linux is actually nice enough so usually it's only a matter of compiling twice, and not making any unusual assumptions while developing code.
Also I've had some bad luck with binary apps since I've been on Gentoo, the Amazon MP3 downloader for example. I assume the problems were related to libaries that change subtly between minor versions in ways a source-compiled app wouldn't notice (Boost, for example, moved a function from a macro in a header to compiled code in the library).
As opposed to Windows, Linux, like most of Unix-like systems, has both versioned shared libraries AND configurable runtime loader for them. If you have an application that requires libraries of some specific version, you can just install it, and possibly will have to make a wrapper script to load it. Almost all binaries that are not distributed as distribution-supported packages usually have this kind of wrapper and set of libraries distributed with them. Ex: everything from Mozilla, most games, Second Life, etc. If binary is distributed alone, all it takes it to get libraries from a supported system, place them in /usr/lib/that-application-name, move the binary there, then write a wrapper script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH there and call the binary -- and it's only necessary if library versioning didn't do its job silently already by loading older libraries from "compatibility" package. That would be an equivalent of Windows application being distributed with DLLs -- except on Windows this can break the system and on Linux it can't.
These are the kind of reasons I don't like native code when I don't have the source available, and why I like to target managed-code when I can for my own projects. Again I apologize if I've been misusing terms.
"Managed code" has absolutely nothing to do with library versions -- if anything, by using managed code you are bringing a massive infrastructure that supports it, often with corresponding massive amounts version-specific behavior changes. Java and .NET accomplished many things (in my opinion, mostly ones that should've never been accomplished) but reliable cross-platform development and backward/forward compatibility are not among them.
Actually, that does remind me - the last issue I had were ATI's drivers under Ubuntu 8.04. I could not, for the life of me, get it to recognize my monitors correctly, in the proper order. It identified them properly, but it would NOT allow me to position them properly in relation to one another. No amount of deleting the .conf file would allow it to detect AND arrange them properly, so I ended up giving up on it.
How is that supposed to be related to "dependencies"?
ATI drivers, as long as they are configured correctly, allow monitors positioning using regular ServerLayout sections -- what is extremely well documented, and only a complete moron can get it wrong. Layout can not be detected automatically BECAUSE VIDEO CARD DOES NOT KNOW HOW YOU PLACED THE MONITORS ON YOUR DESK.
It's getting near time again for me to give Linux another whirl. I can honestly say that nothing would make me happier to be wrong with my previous assumptions about the viability of Linux. The only thing I require a PC w/ Windows for anymore is gaming (ok, and AutoCAD), and I'm finding that even gaming is being supplanted by consoles for me (PS3 and 360). If they could only get a really good RPG on consoles (no, I mean a GOOD one...)
Most likely AutoCAD will never work on anything but Windows, thanks to some stupid decisions (if not outright sabotage) made by AutoDesk. Other CADs work either natively or under emulation (I used VariCAD for 3D and QCad for 2d, both native on Linux, VariCAD is proprietary).
Yes, it allows you to steal cars.
What examples? Posts like that are made by Microsoft marketing people.
As a developer, I've tried using a managed-code runtime to stay truly platform agnostic (I.E. not have to produce builds for every OS under the sun). I tried to use Mono and Tao to write a current project
lol wut
which means I now need to compile things, deal with potential segfaults from ABI differences in Linux, the whole headache.
Oh, I see. "ABI differences in Linux" is a code word for "I am a Microsoft marketdroid".
No more or less OK than relying on Microsoft Exchange, PowerPoint, SQL Server, GarageBand, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Flash, Silverlight, Lotus Notes...
All those products represent much broader classes of applications -- lock-in to them would be indeed stupid.