In 99% of the cases, programming language selection is dominated by business considerations, not by technical considerations. Things that really end up mattering are things like availability of programming environment for the development machine, availability of runtime environment(s) for the deployment machine(s), licensing/legal issues of the runtime and/or development environments, availability of trained developers, availability of consulting services, and corporate culture/politics. These business considerations generally play a much greater role than compile time performance, runtime performance, static vs. dynamic typing, static vs. dynamic binding, etc.
Anyone who argues in favor of one language over another in a purely technical manner (i.e., who ignores the dominant business issues) exposes themself as a techie weenie, and deserves not to be heard.
Ranging from Asteriod Impacts to Mini Black Holes, it's all sorts of fun potential disasters.
For all intents and purposes, humanity's already over. You may believe the year is 2000, but it's actually closer to the year 3000. We don't know for sure...
We don't know who struck first, us or them - but we do know that it was us who scorched the sky... Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
I'm sorry slashdotters, I didn't say it would be easy - I just said it would be the truth.
He sounds like every ignorant mac/windows/linux/whatever basher to ever post to *.advocacy.
Please. Not to defend Michoka, but if I've ever heard ignorance from bashers (or advocates) the worst have come from the Apple camp. Besides, at least on the technical side he makes points you really can't dismiss.
What's the relevance of a 7 year late OS? Apple makes good computers, but the bottom line is that the OS has been prehistoric. Apple is now trumpeting OSX with its amazing features like protected memory and preemtive multitasking, but those are features near 30 years old, features that (gasp!) even Windows has. Yes, if I were a Mac user, I would complain about no real multitasking.
Why not quote a marketer about technical issues? Oh yes, that never happens.
If you're really paranoid about your finances, you really shouldn't use a debit card. It's similar to carrying around your checkbook with every check signed.
As for the new X4.0.1 debian packages they are apt-able, though not in Debian "proper." However, Branden, the X package maintainer, says these packages are still somewhat experimental, and any bug reports filed against them will be closed without comment.
It should be noted that it is KDE that is being included, and not QT.
QT has always been in Debian; the QPL is a DFSG-license, and QT2.1 is in Potato (the stable branch) right now (I think the qt1.x is in Debian as well, though in non-free). However, now that QT2.2 will be GPLed, KDE's licensing conflict is over and that's why it's being included.
Is noone reading Slashdot interested in this language?
Sure, it may be Java rip-off, but at least they've submitted it to ECMA for standarization. They're right when they said, "That is something fundamentally different from our competitors who wandered around the standards bodies, looking for someone to rubber-stamp their proprietary lanugages."
I, for one, like the fact that somebody's trying to make a language the right way (whether it be Java or C#), but is also interested in making it standarized (which is certainly not Java right now).
What I really want is a foot mouse. Although it sounds pretty silly at first, I would definitely love using a mouse without taking my hands away from my keyboard.
Ambidextrous Design for Comfort. Whether you are left-or right-handed, or have a large or small hand, the design of IntelliMouse Optical feels comfortable. The shape supports your hand and encourages natural posture.
The claim that Debian is out of date and has a slow release schedule is rather overstated, in my opinion.
Firstly, Debian releases many minor releases ("outdated" slink is at 2.1r5) which have updates to the most recent security alerts.
In addition, there's apt, which updates your system incredibly easily. In fact, there was a recent post on debian-devel where a user updated from 1.3 (released 3 years ago) to frozen quite easily.
Basically, if you want to run an "up-to-date" system with Debian, it's release cycle is not getting in your way.
Rather than a mirror that can reflect "many different frequencies at any angle with no loss of strength", wouldn't a perfect mirror be one that made you a couple inches taller and dropped 15 lbs?
About a year ago I remember somebody posted a script for the gimp which took an image and a text file and made these images.... does anyone have it or know the link for it?
Did anyone catch the MTV movie awards? I actually enjoy the show, as it's much more fast-paced and interesting than normal award shows.
Anyway, there was a great South Park bit about Battlefield Earth and totally trashed the church of scientology. I totally laughed out loud... if you do catch it on reruns (and MTV will rerun it fifty times) there's also pretty good skits on the Matrix and John Woo.
Linux, always on the cutting edge of technology, is now supporting a movie a new format called "MPEG". This latest advance, promises Linux advocates will continue to widen the gap between other competing operating systems, which have a far smaller portion of the OS market.
"With this new addition to LinuxPPC, I expect Apple to abandon any further development on any OSes they may be researching. Clearly, the ability to play MPEG movies is something else nobody can boast." said Sam Lantinga, who wrote some utilities used for this technological leap. "Luckily for our competitiors, nobody is using such new technology... it should be ages before anyone can harness this new power," Lantinga contiuned.
In the Intel market, Linux also continues to dominate, due to its ease of installation, consistent interface and clear documentation.
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...from the C++ faq.
In 99% of the cases, programming language selection is dominated by business considerations, not by technical considerations. Things that really end up mattering are things like availability of programming environment for the development machine, availability of runtime environment(s) for the deployment machine(s), licensing/legal issues of the runtime and/or development environments, availability of trained developers, availability of consulting services, and corporate culture/politics. These business considerations generally play a much greater role than compile time performance, runtime performance, static vs. dynamic typing, static vs. dynamic binding, etc.
Anyone who argues in favor of one language over another in a purely technical manner (i.e., who ignores the dominant business issues) exposes themself as a techie weenie, and deserves not to be heard.
How does freeamp compare with xmms?
Obligiatory Berlin link.
Ranging from Asteriod Impacts to Mini Black Holes, it's all sorts of fun potential disasters.
For all intents and purposes, humanity's already over. You may believe the year is 2000, but it's actually closer to the year 3000. We don't know for sure...
We don't know who struck first, us or them - but we do know that it was us who scorched the sky... Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
I'm sorry slashdotters, I didn't say it would be easy - I just said it would be the truth.
What about the Agent telling Morpheus that humans were like a virus in The Matrix?
He sounds like every ignorant mac/windows/linux/whatever basher to ever post to *.advocacy.
Please. Not to defend Michoka, but if I've ever heard ignorance from bashers (or advocates) the worst have come from the Apple camp. Besides, at least on the technical side he makes points you really can't dismiss.
What's the relevance of a 7 year late OS? Apple makes good computers, but the bottom line is that the OS has been prehistoric. Apple is now trumpeting OSX with its amazing features like protected memory and preemtive multitasking, but those are features near 30 years old, features that (gasp!) even Windows has. Yes, if I were a Mac user, I would complain about no real multitasking.
Why not quote a marketer about technical issues?
Oh yes, that never happens.
Probably because a very similar article was posted just 10 days ago.
If you're really paranoid about your finances, you really shouldn't use a debit card. It's similar to carrying around your checkbook with every check signed.
Here's one article.
QT has always been in Debian. QT 1.x is in non-free, and QT 2.1 was in the main section of the recent Potato release. The QPL is a DFSG license.
It is KDE that is now being included, as there is no longer a license conflict.
As for the new X4.0.1 debian packages they are apt-able, though not in Debian "proper." However, Branden, the X package maintainer, says these packages are still somewhat experimental, and any bug reports filed against them will be closed without comment.
It should be noted that it is KDE that is being included, and not QT.
QT has always been in Debian; the QPL is a DFSG-license, and QT2.1 is in Potato (the stable branch) right now (I think the qt1.x is in Debian as well, though in non-free). However, now that QT2.2 will be GPLed, KDE's licensing conflict is over and that's why it's being included.
What the heck? This article was already posted two days ago.
link here or if you have the "Older Stuff" slashbox it should be there too.
Is noone reading Slashdot interested in this language?
Sure, it may be Java rip-off, but at least they've submitted it to ECMA for standarization. They're right when they said, "That is something fundamentally different from our competitors who wandered around the standards bodies, looking for someone to rubber-stamp their proprietary lanugages."
I, for one, like the fact that somebody's trying to make a language the right way (whether it be Java or C#), but is also interested in making it standarized (which is certainly not Java right now).
What I really want is a foot mouse. Although it sounds pretty silly at first, I would definitely love using a mouse without taking my hands away from my keyboard.
Well, they're supposedly designed for both left and right handed users.
From the MS webpage
Ambidextrous Design for Comfort.
Whether you are left-or right-handed, or have a large or small hand, the design of IntelliMouse Optical feels comfortable. The shape supports your hand and encourages natural posture.
The claim that Debian is out of date and has a slow release schedule is rather overstated, in my opinion.
Firstly, Debian releases many minor releases ("outdated" slink is at 2.1r5) which have updates to the most recent security alerts.
In addition, there's apt, which updates your system incredibly easily. In fact, there was a recent post on debian-devel where a user updated from 1.3 (released 3 years ago) to frozen quite easily.
Basically, if you want to run an "up-to-date" system with Debian, it's release cycle is not getting in your way.
Rather than a mirror that can reflect "many different frequencies at any angle with no loss of strength", wouldn't a perfect mirror be one that made you a couple inches taller and dropped 15 lbs?
from the faq
About a year ago I remember somebody posted a script for the gimp which took an image and a text file and made these images.... does anyone have it or know the link for it?
Hey, can anyone tell me what Rogue meant when she told Wolverine she saved his life? (When he was at the bar).
"If the PI firm is breaking the law, then there may be some culpability"
Um, weren't they buying trash?
After the President signs this bill as law, will he be able sign other laws online, without a pen? =)
"Hey, it works on my machine"
Did anyone catch the MTV movie awards? I actually enjoy the show, as it's much more fast-paced and interesting than normal award shows.
Anyway, there was a great South Park bit about Battlefield Earth and totally trashed the church of scientology. I totally laughed out loud... if you do catch it on reruns (and MTV will rerun it fifty times) there's also pretty good skits on the Matrix and John Woo.
Linux, always on the cutting edge of technology, is now supporting a movie a new format called "MPEG". This latest advance, promises Linux advocates will continue to widen the gap between other competing operating systems, which have a far smaller portion of the OS market.
"With this new addition to LinuxPPC, I expect Apple to abandon any further development on any OSes they may be researching. Clearly, the ability to play MPEG movies is something else nobody can boast." said Sam Lantinga, who wrote some utilities used for this technological leap. "Luckily for our competitiors, nobody is using such new technology... it should be ages before anyone can harness this new power," Lantinga contiuned.
In the Intel market, Linux also continues to dominate, due to its ease of installation, consistent interface and clear documentation.