Communism requires a big central government to forcibly redistribute everyone's wealth. Big central governments with the power to trample over everyone become big evil murderous Stalinist governments. Also, if I'm a hard worker, I'm not going to be happy about having half my money given to some lazy bum.
Some people claim free software is proof that communism can work, but it only works because the developers CHOOSE to contribute their work, and they can afford to do so because they have day job working for "evil" capitalists.
Even older versions of COBOL had "good enough" support for structured programming. Most of my programs were just as "structured" as any C program, with few or no GOTOs. Also, COBOL IS usually more readable than C. A bad programmer can write unreadable crap in any language, but COBOL at least tries to be readable. C, like Perl, requires special effort to be readable. You are right about one thing though: C isn't a good choice for business apps, and no sane person (and very few insane ones) would try to write an OS in COBOL.
Yes, there IS a reason these new distros are based on Debian. But NONE of them are based on Woody! There's a difference between stable and rigor mortis. Even conservative companies eventually get new machines, and Woody won't even install on many new boxen!
The difference is, Microsoft HAS made several releases since 1998. Debian hasn't. And most businesses don't want to run beta software, even if Debian's betas ARE more reliable than Windows releases.
What would happen then?? The whole American economy would collapse!! How can the economy survive without Big Advertisers telling us what to buy, what movies to watch, and what drugs to take for our aches and pains??
I don't have the money or the space for multiple desktops. If my GF moves in with me, we'd be sharing one computer. And her young niece would probably want to play games on it, and I DON'T want her to be able to mess up my financial records.
Desktop doesn't neccesarily mean single-user. I realize that this is Slashdot, but in the real world, people have wives! Some of them might even have one or more children! Having seperate user accounts is a clear advantage in this case, and it might be a good idea for the admin to run as a regular user too, so his wife doesn't make him sleep on the couch because he got r00ted and her favorite recipes got deleted.
With cars, there's a clear middle ground. I don't know shit about fixing the damn thing, but I know when to get the oil changed and I know to take it to the shop when a light comes on.
With computers, you have people who think any idiot should be able to use it without "oil changes" (security updates), and gear-heads who think you should be able to build a computer from scratch before you're allowed to use it. Both are wrong.
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Communism requires a big central government to forcibly redistribute everyone's wealth. Big central governments with the power to trample over everyone become big evil murderous Stalinist governments. Also, if I'm a hard worker, I'm not going to be happy about having half my money given to some lazy bum.
Some people claim free software is proof that communism can work, but it only works because the developers CHOOSE to contribute their work, and they can afford to do so because they have day job working for "evil" capitalists.
Why should I pay to put my 2 cents in?
Are you saying that God is really "Q"?
It will probably have 666 comments before my morning break!
Even older versions of COBOL had "good enough" support for structured programming. Most of my programs were just as "structured" as any C program, with few or no GOTOs. Also, COBOL IS usually more readable than C. A bad programmer can write unreadable crap in any language, but COBOL at least tries to be readable. C, like Perl, requires special effort to be readable. You are right about one thing though: C isn't a good choice for business apps, and no sane person (and very few insane ones) would try to write an OS in COBOL.
RPG-II! Yuck! I learned that at DeVry, but I've never had to use it since, thank God!
That's because, in the Mirror Universe, Bergman & Braga got killed before they ruined the series.
I will become more powerful than you can imagine.
You can laugh now, but when the Apocalypse gets here, you won't be laughing.
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Yes, there IS a reason these new distros are based on Debian. But NONE of them are based on Woody! There's a difference between stable and rigor mortis. Even conservative companies eventually get new machines, and Woody won't even install on many new boxen!
The difference is, Microsoft HAS made several releases since 1998. Debian hasn't. And most businesses don't want to run beta software, even if Debian's betas ARE more reliable than Windows releases.
Actually, the fries are Belgian.
Well, yeah, but the people who think for me are trustworthy. They told me so.
What would happen then?? The whole American economy would collapse!! How can the economy survive without Big Advertisers telling us what to buy, what movies to watch, and what drugs to take for our aches and pains??
Yes, but what does that have to do with TV?
Well, yes, but only because they needed it to compile Linux 2.2!
No, it's business as usual for Joe Winpack, but is that a good thing? Linux is supposed to be better than Windows, not merely "no worse".
I don't have the money or the space for multiple desktops. If my GF moves in with me, we'd be sharing one computer. And her young niece would probably want to play games on it, and I DON'T want her to be able to mess up my financial records.
Desktop doesn't neccesarily mean single-user. I realize that this is Slashdot, but in the real world, people have wives! Some of them might even have one or more children! Having seperate user accounts is a clear advantage in this case, and it might be a good idea for the admin to run as a regular user too, so his wife doesn't make him sleep on the couch because he got r00ted and her favorite recipes got deleted.
I prefer "rm -i" for multiple deletes, but I would be pissed off if I thought it did it automatically and got bit on Slackware, where it doesn't.
With cars, there's a clear middle ground. I don't know shit about fixing the damn thing, but I know when to get the oil changed and I know to take it to the shop when a light comes on.
With computers, you have people who think any idiot should be able to use it without "oil changes" (security updates), and gear-heads who think you should be able to build a computer from scratch before you're allowed to use it. Both are wrong.
Neither is Windows.
Does that mean that dosemu won't run on 64-bit Linux?
Perhaps because Debian's flag only has 13 stars.