So, the thing that will put an end to the humanity is called Billy Goat? This is just... wrong.
Re:This might even turn out better than expected
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Xr Renamed to Cairo
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They even plan to contact Freedesktop.org
Bagh, Freedesktop.org came to existence because the XFree team was unwilling to develop any new standards in the first place. Now, roughly the same people who participate in the Freedesktop efforts are taking over the flag of free X server development as well. For me, it's definitely a turn to the better.
Wasn't till just before Stalin (when Lenin was alive, but out of service on account of a stroke or two) that it became oppressive.
They were oppressive from day one, maybe two. Lenin and Trotsky ordered to suppress and decimate any opposition they faced. Stalin got to suppress pretty much the opposition he imagined.
The developers of Bogofilter have gone this route too. It's the filter of my choice: written in C (fassst), mail parser coded in flex (fassst as well), stores the word database in a Berkeley DB (you guessed it... fassst again).
Re:Somewhat old, it's been there since Monday...
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As previously agreed in the marketing working group, we will call the new core revision OpenGL 1.5, reserving OpenGL 2.0 for a future core revision including the shading language.
I think it was a marketing error. They should have called it OpenGL 2.0 Full Speed and reserve OpenGL 2.0 Hi-Speed for the future core spec.
Sorry, couldn't resist a joke referring to a recent turmoil in USB packaging names, which have been clarified later.
Wait... is "usaly" the bzip2 compressed version of usually? Nah, it rather looks like some lossy algorithm. That is, you can tell the uncompressed text says "usually", but not for certain.
Don't blame Russian socioeconomic situation for these guys' deeds. There are lots of IT workers in Russia, and I assure you they don't have to turn to crime in order to sustain themselves. Granted, the circumstances for these two guys might have been dire, but they deliberately preferred criminal activity to, oh horror, going broke and starting to seek another opportunity.
Strings and chars. Let's admit it, 16-bit character was a trap. This path abandoned compactness of ASCII strings while stopping short of real "universal characters".
I say, make character values 32-bit wide, but store String internals in UTF-8. This will make charAt less efficient method than it is now, but everyone using charAt to access complete charaters now produces broken code from the i18n standpoint.
Is it just me or anyone else has found the Xtreme Tek site suspicious to the point of intolerability? Their name is probably a play on the well-known ExtremeTech. After seeing a huge banner featuring a scantily-clad girl in a horizontal position, I closed the window without waiting for download to finish. Thank you, but my standards of acceptance typically require a bit more ingenuity.
We also investigated this. SWT is a _horrendous_ API which offers very little abstraction. You end up writing your code once for the Gtk+ target, and again for the native Windows target. It isn't really a cross-platform abstraction like WxWindows, and it's probably the reason why the Eclipse codebase is so large.
I've seen the Eclipse codebase, and I'd like to hold you to an explanation. The only modules that are duplicated per platform are the SWT implementations and some minor stuff also tied to the platform (and abstracting it at that). The majority of modules is not platform-bound at all. Please explain what details of the public SWT API do you find non-portable.
I don't have benchmarks yet; does that make me a liar?
It makes your claims a bit hollow; trolls never back up their claims, hence you may be taken for one.
There are two reasons why Flash will never take over the web, relegating itself to the niche of spiffy sideshows:
Search engines. AFAIK, Google doesn't index Flash yet (and I hope it never will).
Accessibility. Blind users get squat from typical Flash stuff (apart from meaningless bleeps, that is). Designing Flash content accessible to the blind doubles effort and multiplies content size. A properly built HTML site has it for free, provided the users have got generic accessibility tech like voice readers, Braille displays and such.
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...that the Internet treats greed as damage, and routes around it?
So, the thing that will put an end to the humanity is called Billy Goat? This is just... wrong.
They even plan to contact Freedesktop.org
Bagh, Freedesktop.org came to existence because the XFree team was unwilling to develop any new standards in the first place.
Now, roughly the same people who participate in the Freedesktop efforts are taking over the flag of free X server development as well. For me, it's definitely a turn to the better.
So did your pilgrims during the revolution
:-)
You're addressing the wrong "you" here: I'm a successor to the Reds. Or should I say, a survivor?
Cheers.
Wasn't till just before Stalin (when Lenin was alive, but out of service on account of a stroke or two) that it became oppressive.
They were oppressive from day one, maybe two. Lenin and Trotsky ordered to suppress and decimate any opposition they faced. Stalin got to suppress pretty much the opposition he imagined.
It uses a chi^2-based algorithm
The developers of Bogofilter have gone this route too. It's the filter of my choice: written in C (fassst), mail parser coded in flex (fassst as well), stores the word database in a Berkeley DB (you guessed it... fassst again).
I think it was a marketing error. They should have called it OpenGL 2.0 Full Speed and reserve OpenGL 2.0 Hi-Speed for the future core spec.
Sorry, couldn't resist a joke referring to a recent turmoil in USB packaging names, which have been clarified later.
Well, well, Goblin's LoTR rips off the visuals anyway. I wouldn't call it a clear parody. But sure it's funny as hell.
$900? For a fucking Javascript menu? Arrrr.
Wait... is "usaly" the bzip2 compressed version of usually?
Nah, it rather looks like some lossy algorithm.
That is, you can tell the uncompressed text says "usually", but not for certain.
How is/was your business in Moscow?
Don't blame Russian socioeconomic situation for these guys' deeds. There are lots of IT workers in Russia, and I assure you they don't have to turn to crime in order to sustain themselves. Granted, the circumstances for these two guys might have been dire, but they deliberately preferred criminal activity to, oh horror, going broke and starting to seek another opportunity.
You probably should try whois.apnic.net.
Strings and chars. Let's admit it, 16-bit character was a trap. This path abandoned compactness of ASCII strings while stopping short of real "universal characters".
I say, make character values 32-bit wide, but store String internals in UTF-8. This will make charAt less efficient method than it is now, but everyone using charAt to access complete charaters now produces broken code from the i18n standpoint.
Is it just me or anyone else has found the Xtreme Tek site suspicious to the point of intolerability?
Their name is probably a play on the well-known ExtremeTech. After seeing a huge banner featuring a scantily-clad girl in a horizontal position, I closed the window without waiting for download to finish. Thank you, but my standards of acceptance typically require a bit more ingenuity.
How long before TMA-1 decides we have developed a little too well for its tastes, and sets out to degrade us a bit?
2 catastrophes in entire project lifespan is good compared to the Russians
Excuse me? Russians had 1 (one) catastrophe in an early Soyuz mission, and one more at an earlier series. That's all.
FreeBSD Boots? Where can I get my pair?
Will it keep my feet warm with that x86-64?
We also investigated this. SWT is a _horrendous_ API which offers very little abstraction. You end up writing your code once for the Gtk+ target, and again for the native Windows target. It isn't really a cross-platform abstraction like WxWindows, and it's probably the reason why the Eclipse codebase is so large.
I've seen the Eclipse codebase, and I'd like to hold you to an explanation. The only modules that are duplicated per platform are the SWT implementations and some minor stuff also tied to the platform (and abstracting it at that). The majority of modules is not platform-bound at all. Please explain what details of the public SWT API do you find non-portable.
I don't have benchmarks yet; does that make me a liar?
It makes your claims a bit hollow; trolls never back up their claims, hence you may be taken for one.
... will apply the Chinese Army Techique?
And what exactly is the benefit of having interoperability with the stock Java ORB in GNOME?
You never know... May it be pulling Bonobo components from Eclipse plugins?
The entire reason that we WROTE DCOP was because CORBA was ridiculously slow.
As opposed to writing a better ORB because existing ORBs at the moment were ridiculously slow.
Last I heard, GNOME now enjoys interoperability with the Java2 stock ORB, practically for naught.
DCOP uses ICE. DCOP is bound to X11. DCOP has lost.
It's even more ironic that both KDE and GNOME developers are now pondering something called D-BUS that is presented as "ICE that does not suck."