I know what you mean about Delphi. I saw the writing on the wall when Borland started over-segmenting the product (Delphi 4) and removing functionality at each level.
As a developer, I haven't regretted making the switch to linux. Everything's much cleaner.
To repeat your own line - don't be ignorant. Only a total idiot would require all the functionality be bundled intoloadable one monolithic program, when they can separate it into various libraries. You know, dlls under windows, classes in java, or.so in linux.
Sorry, but anyone who thinks microsoft did this by accident doesn't know crap about coding.
Another "defective by design" product. Same as "We can't take Internet Exploder out because its integrated into the OS."
Its not loke previous versions of programs didn't have their own search capabilities... but Microsoft just loves to force the "Microsoft Way" on people.
B.O.G.U.S., as in "Bend Over, Grease Up, Sucker."
Contrast that to the "Free as in freedom as well as beer" of F/LOSS.
And yes, the money will go to the individual users. If this works, I should be getting about $1200 in another 5 years (because that's how long it will take to go through the courts, appleas, etc).
No, but they will 2 years later, when their now-2-year-old pc is loaded with crapware, malware, etc. AGAIN, and they have a choice - buy another windows box,or switch. A lot are switching.
Its gotten to the point that, at the local Future Shit, the macs are more prominently displayed than the Windows boxes. The Windows boxes are running on shelves, while the macs are on tables in the middle of widened aisles so customers can play with them . . .
Guess which machines have people waiting to play with them? Hint - people are tired of the same old vista of buggy software, poor performance, and general dissatisfaction.
> "Without pay, I would bet the lag time would be long.. As a private company with a task to perform, the unpaid task would be bottom priority like most of their coustomer service requests."
Always follow the money...
Or in this case, "there's no whore like an old whore..." (f*cking your customers for $1k + $750/m, like Comcast customers aren't already screwed enough...)
"The Soyuz spacecraft designed in the mid-1960s is still in service, somewhat modified. It can only be used once, but costs just $25 million. The newest Endeavor space shuttle cost $2 billion, but is reusable"
Each shuttle mission costs a half-billion to launch. So many systems have to be rebuilt and retested that it would be cheaper to make them throw-away.
For example, by the time the shuttle engines are on the launch pad, they've been rebuilt pretty much from scratch and retested, which takes up almost 90% of their rated lifetime. Like a race car engine that has to be rebuilt every 750 miles, but is test for 675 miles before the race...
Saying the shuttle is re-usable without looking at the real costs is ignoring reality.
I'd be ashamed of what 'proper' coders would think of my amateur offering -- I'm afraid it would be laughed at and ignored
Just cut-n-paste the following lines multiple times in each source file...
// hack for f*cking Internet Explorer css screw-up
// g** d*** MicroSh*t - got to fix this next section sometime
// WTF? Bug only in IE, on alternate Tuesdays, in months with an "R" in them!!!
// Okay - this works fine in Opera, Moz, Safari - fuck IE. Let a MicroSerf fix it, or fix their ^$%! browser!!!
// WARNING: *** UNCOMMENT THE NEXT 3 LINES FOR INTERNET EXPLODER COMPATIBILITY MODE! ***
// if(browser == IE) {
// alert("get a real browser, you moron!");
// }
After all, everyone knows one of the reasons it took so long to make the Netscape Navigator source available was "cleaning up" the source code to remove all the "F*cking Microsoft POS crap" comments,
It deals with a security administrator at a mid-sized U.S. based Internet service provider who decided to block RBN from reaching his customers. John declined to use his full name for a stated fear of physical and/or digital reprisals by RBN's clients against him and his employer.
His name's Doe. John Doe. He's easy enough to find. (Or at least that's what his toe tag will say once RBN is finished with him)
Part of the problem is that their activities bring in hard currency. Also, the local authorities probably figure its better that the crooks direct their activities outside the country, rather than against other Russians. Its the same problem as with the 419'ers.
... or I can join the dyslexics and worship DOG and hate Santa:-)
Seriously, in the end it makes no different to how I live my life. If god were to appear tomorrow and demand that I worship god, I wouldn't, just on the princple that a god that demands worship doesn't have it coming, just like someone who demands love doesn't have it coming.
And if god were to say that certain things I do or believe are wrong, I would say "prove it - convince me". Not because of any innate stubbornnes (okay , that too) but because blind obedience is wrong.
So in the end, the question isn't even tangental to my life.
Having said that, I'm all for live and let live, as long as nobody's getting hurt (well, if they're a masochist, I'd have to say that's a special case) , and nobody's forcing their superstitions on anyone else. Doesn't stop me ribbing them about it on occasion, but nobody has demonstrated any connection to the real world, or any need, for that matter.
Simple math gives the answer - and the answer is no.
Wikipedia can't hit a peak until the number of articles starts going down... that's not going to happen until all contributions stop. A 50% decline in users adding stuff would still make for a growing wiki.
To put it into a typical slashdot perspective - if the number of new internet sites registered each day were to drop by 90%, the internet would STILL be growing... just not as fast.
The whole question was silly. If the number of contributors were to drop by 95%, the Wiki would still be growing - in other words, it will only reach its peak when it completely stops getting contributions, which isn't happening.
"is Wikipedia's development now past its peak? Are Wikipedians simply running out of things to write about, or is the community collapsing under the weight of external vandalism and internal conflicts?"
There's no reason you can't have 2 or more compilers on the same machine. I used to have both 2.95 and 3.something_or_other, no problems (I kept 2.95 around for a while because of the bugs in 2.96)
If Mr 3d refuses all interaction with flatland, then for all intents and purposes, he doesn't exist to the flatlanders; there certainly would be no need to ascribe godhood to something that never interact with your reality, and that, since it doesn't interact, doesn't affect anything.
Another impressive thing (and something we're so used to we've come to expect it, but you can't even try with Windows) is that you can test which distros work with your hardware before you install, thanks to live CDs. Not sure if a particular linux will work on a laptop? Try it before installing.
Windows doesn't always install so well either. On this box, XP refused to install (it doesn't like 3 video cards). Win2k will, but only in 4-bit "colour", and refuses to do any better, even with the right drivers. And yet here I am, typing on a linux desktop that installed with just a few clicks.
For the systems at work (mine and others) - just stuck the dvd in, made the selections, and ran.
One of my co-workers was a windos fanatic, and very skeptical. After seeing me with dual-monitor goodness and all the goodies of linux for months (streamripper, etc) he borrowed an early alpha of opensuse 10.3 (yes, I gave him alpha software to test w/o telling him it was alpha:-)
He was really impressed when his Windows php editor suite worked in linux under wine - and worked better than it did in Windows!
A few weeks later I came in to see he had scrounged a second video card and lcd from another machine...
The rest, as they say, is history.
Here's my first impressions on openSUSE 10.3. To give you an idea of how ready for the masses I think it is, I'm going to buy a couple of new hard drives for Xmas, and "pay it forward" to a couple of people by giving them hardware and linux, because I know they'll have a good user experience (better than what they have now, with having to re-install every 6 months... I'm getting tired of them being off-line for a week at a time because "my computer is f*cked up! I need to bring it in to have Windows re-installed again!").
Yes, this happens. It no longer happens to my sister - she bought a 21" mac, but it happens to other relatives, and I'm tired of hearing about it, and being out of contact and not knowing if its because of the computer or something serious.
Hopefully, others will do the same thing, and spread the good news, that there's an alternative that works.
More likely scenario is this - copied mails to kmail's folders, then tried to open them. Doesn't work that way, at least if you don;t give it time to re-index - kmail will craxh. Your email is still there, but its not indexed, so you won't see it.
That being said, anyone know a better/cleaner way to import email into a newer version of kmail?
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For several years, he was front and center in the SCO FUD campaign - on the wrong side.
His sudden "road to Damascus" moment is about as "convenient" as someone becoming a "born-again Christian" after being arrested.
Believe at your own risk.
As a developer, I haven't regretted making the switch to linux. Everything's much cleaner.
To repeat your own line - don't be ignorant. Only a total idiot would require all the functionality be bundled intoloadable one monolithic program, when they can separate it into various libraries. You know, dlls under windows, classes in java, or .so in linux.
Sorry, but anyone who thinks microsoft did this by accident doesn't know crap about coding.
Another "defective by design" product. Same as "We can't take Internet Exploder out because its integrated into the OS."
Its not loke previous versions of programs didn't have their own search capabilities ... but Microsoft just loves to force the "Microsoft Way" on people.
B.O.G.U.S., as in "Bend Over, Grease Up, Sucker."
Contrast that to the "Free as in freedom as well as beer" of F/LOSS.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/09/19/tech-cellphones.html
And yes, the money will go to the individual users. If this works, I should be getting about $1200 in another 5 years (because that's how long it will take to go through the courts, appleas, etc).
And those are Canadian dollars to boot !!! w00t!
No, but they will 2 years later, when their now-2-year-old pc is loaded with crapware, malware, etc. AGAIN, and they have a choice - buy another windows box,or switch. A lot are switching.
Its gotten to the point that, at the local Future Shit, the macs are more prominently displayed than the Windows boxes. The Windows boxes are running on shelves, while the macs are on tables in the middle of widened aisles so customers can play with them . . .
Guess which machines have people waiting to play with them? Hint - people are tired of the same old vista of buggy software, poor performance, and general dissatisfaction.
> "Without pay, I would bet the lag time would be long.. As a private company with a task to perform, the unpaid task would be bottom priority like most of their coustomer service requests."
Always follow the money ...
Or in this case, "there's no whore like an old whore ..." (f*cking your customers for $1k + $750/m, like Comcast customers aren't already screwed enough ...)
"The Soyuz spacecraft designed in the mid-1960s is still in service, somewhat modified. It can only be used once, but costs just $25 million. The newest Endeavor space shuttle cost $2 billion, but is reusable"
Each shuttle mission costs a half-billion to launch. So many systems have to be rebuilt and retested that it would be cheaper to make them throw-away.
For example, by the time the shuttle engines are on the launch pad, they've been rebuilt pretty much from scratch and retested, which takes up almost 90% of their rated lifetime. Like a race car engine that has to be rebuilt every 750 miles, but is test for 675 miles before the race ...
Saying the shuttle is re-usable without looking at the real costs is ignoring reality.
Well, 47 comments, and nobody is quoting from the article because there is no link to it - just to ars' front page.
For the linky-impaired: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071018-battle-brewing-between-pirate-bay-recording-industry-over-ifpi-domain-coup.html
Just in case anyone wants to go against tradition and actually RTFA.
Just cut-n-paste the following lines multiple times in each source file ...
After all, everyone knows one of the reasons it took so long to make the Netscape Navigator source available was "cleaning up" the source code to remove all the "F*cking Microsoft POS crap" comments,
His name's Doe. John Doe. He's easy enough to find. (Or at least that's what his toe tag will say once RBN is finished with him)
Part of the problem is that their activities bring in hard currency. Also, the local authorities probably figure its better that the crooks direct their activities outside the country, rather than against other Russians. Its the same problem as with the 419'ers.
Well, its not like he couldn't have used some bullet-proofing ...
Seriously, in the end it makes no different to how I live my life. If god were to appear tomorrow and demand that I worship god, I wouldn't, just on the princple that a god that demands worship doesn't have it coming, just like someone who demands love doesn't have it coming.
And if god were to say that certain things I do or believe are wrong, I would say "prove it - convince me". Not because of any innate stubbornnes (okay , that too) but because blind obedience is wrong.
So in the end, the question isn't even tangental to my life.
Having said that, I'm all for live and let live, as long as nobody's getting hurt (well, if they're a masochist, I'd have to say that's a special case) , and nobody's forcing their superstitions on anyone else. Doesn't stop me ribbing them about it on occasion, but nobody has demonstrated any connection to the real world, or any need, for that matter.
Simple math gives the answer - and the answer is no.
Wikipedia can't hit a peak until the number of articles starts going down ... that's not going to happen until all contributions stop. A 50% decline in users adding stuff would still make for a growing wiki.
To put it into a typical slashdot perspective - if the number of new internet sites registered each day were to drop by 90%, the internet would STILL be growing ... just not as fast.
The whole question was silly. If the number of contributors were to drop by 95%, the Wiki would still be growing - in other words, it will only reach its peak when it completely stops getting contributions, which isn't happening.
"is Wikipedia's development now past its peak? Are Wikipedians simply running out of things to write about, or is the community collapsing under the weight of external vandalism and internal conflicts?"
No, no, and no.
Oops - sorry, my stupid :-(
There's no reason you can't have 2 or more compilers on the same machine. I used to have both 2.95 and 3.something_or_other, no problems (I kept 2.95 around for a while because of the bugs in 2.96)
If Mr 3d refuses all interaction with flatland, then for all intents and purposes, he doesn't exist to the flatlanders; there certainly would be no need to ascribe godhood to something that never interact with your reality, and that, since it doesn't interact, doesn't affect anything.
Thanks. Next time I migrate my data, I'll try that.
Another impressive thing (and something we're so used to we've come to expect it, but you can't even try with Windows) is that you can test which distros work with your hardware before you install, thanks to live CDs. Not sure if a particular linux will work on a laptop? Try it before installing.
While some NVidia stuff "just works", I won't buy an nvidia card until such time as they change their position wrt open-sourcing the drivers.
They really have to get with the times. As you yourself have to admit, this is a problem that starts and ends with nvidia, not linux.
Windows doesn't always install so well either. On this box, XP refused to install (it doesn't like 3 video cards). Win2k will, but only in 4-bit "colour", and refuses to do any better, even with the right drivers. And yet here I am, typing on a linux desktop that installed with just a few clicks.
For the systems at work (mine and others) - just stuck the dvd in, made the selections, and ran.
One of my co-workers was a windos fanatic, and very skeptical. After seeing me with dual-monitor goodness and all the goodies of linux for months (streamripper, etc) he borrowed an early alpha of opensuse 10.3 (yes, I gave him alpha software to test w/o telling him it was alpha :-)
He was really impressed when his Windows php editor suite worked in linux under wine - and worked better than it did in Windows!
A few weeks later I came in to see he had scrounged a second video card and lcd from another machine ...
The rest, as they say, is history.
Here's my first impressions on openSUSE 10.3. To give you an idea of how ready for the masses I think it is, I'm going to buy a couple of new hard drives for Xmas, and "pay it forward" to a couple of people by giving them hardware and linux, because I know they'll have a good user experience (better than what they have now, with having to re-install every 6 months ... I'm getting tired of them being off-line for a week at a time because "my computer is f*cked up! I need to bring it in to have Windows re-installed again!").
Yes, this happens. It no longer happens to my sister - she bought a 21" mac, but it happens to other relatives, and I'm tired of hearing about it, and being out of contact and not knowing if its because of the computer or something serious.
Hopefully, others will do the same thing, and spread the good news, that there's an alternative that works.
More likely scenario is this - copied mails to kmail's folders, then tried to open them. Doesn't work that way, at least if you don;t give it time to re-index - kmail will craxh. Your email is still there, but its not indexed, so you won't see it.
That being said, anyone know a better/cleaner way to import email into a newer version of kmail?