This is true, and if they designers of GTK+ had taken this wisdom to heart, all would be well. Instead, they made the dubious decision to write an entirely OO toolkit on top of a strictly procedural language. And the results are just horrid. The plain reality is 90% of all the UI programming is done using preconstructed widgets--button, textbox, image, whatever. Some people, myself included, think that for consistency's sake that number should be closer to 100%. Newfangled widgets tend to confuse the user unless they're done well, which they're usually not.
Yeah, fuck paying for a feature that took a lot of work to implement and that you want badly. The nerve of those assholes, charging money for their work.
A real man would other get off his ass and code it himself, or support the damn developers who do. Note "Bitch on/." is not listed. Free software is turning the world into a bunch of whining ingrates.
Yes, but on the flip side, what is Blockbuster and the rest of the rental business without those MPAA movies? "You don't like our region codes? Fine--noDVDforyou." And that's all she wrote for Blockbuster.
I've only been programming for about 15 years, so maybe it's just my lack of experience talking here, but... never have I had it happen where a library simply links itself into my program of its own volition. If you know of a way to make this happen, I'd love to hear it, because it would save me loads of time grepping through assorted header files to figure out a library interface, reading documentation, etc. It would be a dream come true.
Incidentally, in every (L)GPL'd library I've ever used, the licensing terms are spelled out clearly right there at the top of said header files. You'd have to be either a) incredibly dense, or b) trying, not to know under what terms they were licensed.
When was the last time you saw a Segway zooming around town? (If ever.) I seem to remember Jeff Bezos or someone saying it would "change the way cities are built." Funny, as luck you have it I happen to be in a city right as I'm typing this, and that whole "roads" things looks pretty much the same as it has since the Romans. In fact the only time I've ever seen a Segway was some Fed zooming around on one at the airport, which offers insight into how Kamen et al. plan to ulimately make money off this turkey: sell it to the only buyer in the world with enough money and enough stupidity to be willing.
Looks suspiciously like KDE 1 to me. And it's not appreciably faster on my box than anything else. But I guess what makes it truely wonderful it's that it's built on GTK+. I've always relished the "opportunity" of developing with a fully object-oriented toolkit written in a fully procedural language. It's real... elegant. Right up there with Perl 5's "grafted on" OOP constructs.
Give me Python or give me C++. Give me C++ or give me Objective C. Give me ObjC or give me death. But for the love of God, don't give me C and make me weld classes, methods and attributes to it.
I initially thought this was a cool idea, but then I had the sinking suspicion that Renfe must be involved. They almost certainly will be. For those you haven't lived/are living in Spain, Renfe is also known as the World's Worst State-Run Railway. Actually, my travels aren't extensive enough to state that with certainty, but it's gotta be in the top 5. Let's see, in the past year (and just off the top of my head) Renfe has managed to: run a pair of trains into each other because somebody literally fell asleep at the switch; trap like 30 AVE workers in an underground tunnel for three days; build a section of the Barcelona-Madrid AVE track over a dangerous sinkhole, mandating millions in costly repairs; exceed the overall timeframe and budget for the Barcelona-Madrid AVE by years and millions of euros, respectively, etc. etc. etc. (Hi ha algu aqui de Catalunya? Que pasa amb l'AVE ara?) If someone were to invite me to ride to Morocco with them on this underground tunnel, I would politely take the ferry.
Once upon a time I was shopping for SLR bodies in the multi-thousand $$ range (photography can be an extreme gadget, e.g. nerd, sport) when somebody told me, (paraphrasing)
Ansel Adams took better pictures with a wood box and some hiking boots than you will in your entire lifetime.
So true. Needless to say, I settled for a 20-year-old MF and have never regretted it. My point is, I don't get the impression Adams (and others like him) really cared what he was shooting with so much as composition, tonality, lighting, etc. He could have produced brilliant shots with just about anything that stayed in focus.
solvable with high level math and some acquired skill.
Solvable? I don't know what high level math you've been smoking, but in my math classes, a problem is solvable when it can, you know, be solved. So kindly tell me what the weather will be in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 16, 2028, and I will stop implying that you're a buffoon. Probably a smarmy one, at that, if you're like all those goddamn weathermen on TV.
Don't people know those things sound as stupid as coffee can mufflers on Honda Civics?
In my experience, the people "rocking" Beethoven (or, even better, some sort of Dragonball Z-inspired theme) on their cells are the people who then drive off in their coffee-can mufflered, lowered, clear-taillight Civic hatchbacks. So the answer to your question is no:)
You can buy them retail. The markup isn't really even that hefty compared to an "untough" system. Best of all, that particular reseller will bundle Linux/no-OS with their systems.
Heh yeah I'd say that sig reels in about one unsuspecting jackass a week. Here was last week's contestant.
If you fuckos had half a brain you'd realize that a) I'm right and you're wrong and b) not a single phenomena in the known universe could possibly make me care what you have to say. Cheers!
It sounds lame because it got coopted by a bunch of script-kiddy lusers. But since I was using it way before all that, I'm grandfathered in, and anyone who doesn't like it can kindly kiss my ass:) 'Viruzes' sounds even worse because it calls forth those idiot preteens on Half Life who insist on pluralizing everything with a 'z', e.g. 'TURN ON UR SOUNDZ, N00B', etc.
Having said all that, virii is definitely, unquestionably wrong. And having said that, I still don't give a fuck (see above).
I'm came bit later than the truely nostalgic crowd, but I do distinctively remember as an 8-year-old my trusty Hayes 1200 baud modem with its distinctive metal case and red LEDs. I think I tried to download 600k Wolf 3D about 7 times over two weeks... frickin' Ymodem-G with no error tolerance whatsoever. I'd leave it downloading when I left for school and my mom picked up the phone every time. Finally someone gave it to me on a floppy... and that was how started learning about virii:)
I guess if the poster meant that in a very strict sense, as in by selling 30-second ad spots, he could be right. But television will be sponsor-supported for a very long time to come. If you've ever seen the type of car your 'average' television producer drives, then it's dawned on you that these people are fiendishly good at making money. They'll find ways to adapt. You'll see product placement taken to a whole new level (Will & Grace suddenly get jobs in a Pepsi bottling plant.) You'll see running banner ads at the bottom of the screen right as the program airs. These are already proven to work: soccer probably generates more ad revenue worldwide than all other sports combined through product placement and scrollnig ads. This despite having only one half-time commercial break.
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Now that I think about it - were the elephants real?
Probably not, because those were oliphaunts you were seeing. Say it with me now--"oh-liff-fonts". Derived from an old German word for camel.
That was the most horrible production of DUNE EVER!
You're joking, right? Put it this way: The Return of the King is a better production of Dune than David Lynch's version was.
This is true, and if they designers of GTK+ had taken this wisdom to heart, all would be well. Instead, they made the dubious decision to write an entirely OO toolkit on top of a strictly procedural language. And the results are just horrid. The plain reality is 90% of all the UI programming is done using preconstructed widgets--button, textbox, image, whatever. Some people, myself included, think that for consistency's sake that number should be closer to 100%. Newfangled widgets tend to confuse the user unless they're done well, which they're usually not.
Who on earth would want to use their new X server? It's full of bugs! (Ark ark ark).
:)
Couldn't resist.
Yeah, fuck paying for a feature that took a lot of work to implement and that you want badly. The nerve of those assholes, charging money for their work.
/." is not listed. Free software is turning the world into a bunch of whining ingrates.
A real man would other get off his ass and code it himself, or support the damn developers who do. Note "Bitch on
Yes, but on the flip side, what is Blockbuster and the rest of the rental business without those MPAA movies? "You don't like our region codes? Fine--noDVDforyou." And that's all she wrote for Blockbuster.
Well... haven't we been simulating what would happen if the loser got a chance to govern for the past three years now?
I've only been programming for about 15 years, so maybe it's just my lack of experience talking here, but... never have I had it happen where a library simply links itself into my program of its own volition. If you know of a way to make this happen, I'd love to hear it, because it would save me loads of time grepping through assorted header files to figure out a library interface, reading documentation, etc. It would be a dream come true.
Incidentally, in every (L)GPL'd library I've ever used, the licensing terms are spelled out clearly right there at the top of said header files. You'd have to be either a) incredibly dense, or b) trying, not to know under what terms they were licensed.
When was the last time you saw a Segway zooming around town? (If ever.) I seem to remember Jeff Bezos or someone saying it would "change the way cities are built." Funny, as luck you have it I happen to be in a city right as I'm typing this, and that whole "roads" things looks pretty much the same as it has since the Romans. In fact the only time I've ever seen a Segway was some Fed zooming around on one at the airport, which offers insight into how Kamen et al. plan to ulimately make money off this turkey: sell it to the only buyer in the world with enough money and enough stupidity to be willing.
Looks suspiciously like KDE 1 to me. And it's not appreciably faster on my box than anything else. But I guess what makes it truely wonderful it's that it's built on GTK+. I've always relished the "opportunity" of developing with a fully object-oriented toolkit written in a fully procedural language. It's real... elegant. Right up there with Perl 5's "grafted on" OOP constructs.
Give me Python or give me C++. Give me C++ or give me Objective C. Give me ObjC or give me death. But for the love of God, don't give me C and make me weld classes, methods and attributes to it.
I initially thought this was a cool idea, but then I had the sinking suspicion that Renfe must be involved. They almost certainly will be. For those you haven't lived/are living in Spain, Renfe is also known as the World's Worst State-Run Railway. Actually, my travels aren't extensive enough to state that with certainty, but it's gotta be in the top 5. Let's see, in the past year (and just off the top of my head) Renfe has managed to: run a pair of trains into each other because somebody literally fell asleep at the switch; trap like 30 AVE workers in an underground tunnel for three days; build a section of the Barcelona-Madrid AVE track over a dangerous sinkhole, mandating millions in costly repairs; exceed the overall timeframe and budget for the Barcelona-Madrid AVE by years and millions of euros, respectively, etc. etc. etc. (Hi ha algu aqui de Catalunya? Que pasa amb l'AVE ara?) If someone were to invite me to ride to Morocco with them on this underground tunnel, I would politely take the ferry.
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Note to self: stop posting on Slashdot after 2-for-1 happy hour at Bennigans.
So true. Needless to say, I settled for a 20-year-old MF and have never regretted it. My point is, I don't get the impression Adams (and others like him) really cared what he was shooting with so much as composition, tonality, lighting, etc. He could have produced brilliant shots with just about anything that stayed in focus.
solvable with high level math and some acquired skill.
Solvable? I don't know what high level math you've been smoking, but in my math classes, a problem is solvable when it can, you know, be solved. So kindly tell me what the weather will be in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 16, 2028, and I will stop implying that you're a buffoon. Probably a smarmy one, at that, if you're like all those goddamn weathermen on TV.
Don't people know those things sound as stupid as coffee can mufflers on Honda Civics?
:)
In my experience, the people "rocking" Beethoven (or, even better, some sort of Dragonball Z-inspired theme) on their cells are the people who then drive off in their coffee-can mufflered, lowered, clear-taillight Civic hatchbacks. So the answer to your question is no
You can buy them retail. The markup isn't really even that hefty compared to an "untough" system. Best of all, that particular reseller will bundle Linux/no-OS with their systems.
That's why you overclock it.
I swear, nerds are going to be overclocking their vacuum cleaners one day...
Heh yeah I'd say that sig reels in about one unsuspecting jackass a week. Here was last week's contestant.
If you fuckos had half a brain you'd realize that a) I'm right and you're wrong and b) not a single phenomena in the known universe could possibly make me care what you have to say. Cheers!
Alright kids, now get on emule and go download this game!
Good Lord! He's not even Asian. ::sips his boba::... it's a sad day for Orange County.
Actually, he's too busy filming the MTV Movie Awards parody of ROTK to involve himself in another project.
Like the keymaker...
It sounds lame because it got coopted by a bunch of script-kiddy lusers. But since I was using it way before all that, I'm grandfathered in, and anyone who doesn't like it can kindly kiss my ass :) 'Viruzes' sounds even worse because it calls forth those idiot preteens on Half Life who insist on pluralizing everything with a 'z', e.g. 'TURN ON UR SOUNDZ, N00B', etc.
Having said all that, virii is definitely, unquestionably wrong. And having said that, I still don't give a fuck (see above).
I'm came bit later than the truely nostalgic crowd, but I do distinctively remember as an 8-year-old my trusty Hayes 1200 baud modem with its distinctive metal case and red LEDs. I think I tried to download 600k Wolf 3D about 7 times over two weeks... frickin' Ymodem-G with no error tolerance whatsoever. I'd leave it downloading when I left for school and my mom picked up the phone every time. Finally someone gave it to me on a floppy... and that was how started learning about virii :)
Them were the days
Haha am I the only one reading hilarious irony into this post?:
... There's also a decent rebuttal with this story as well
'Open Source developers love a good feud.'
I guess if the poster meant that in a very strict sense, as in by selling 30-second ad spots, he could be right. But television will be sponsor-supported for a very long time to come. If you've ever seen the type of car your 'average' television producer drives, then it's dawned on you that these people are fiendishly good at making money. They'll find ways to adapt. You'll see product placement taken to a whole new level (Will & Grace suddenly get jobs in a Pepsi bottling plant.) You'll see running banner ads at the bottom of the screen right as the program airs. These are already proven to work: soccer probably generates more ad revenue worldwide than all other sports combined through product placement and scrollnig ads. This despite having only one half-time commercial break.