If you're using C++, Stroustrup claims that STL sort() is faster than qsort(), because it gives the compiler a chance to optimize your code. Of course, it also bloats your program for the same reason.
OSS works. But bad attitudes and bad practices by the self-appointed mini-evangelists (i.e. trolls) who would rather engage in idealist wars than work together have hurt OSS more than Microsoft or any other corporation. There are very few idiot users. But there sure are a lot of socially inept engineers.
I love your point about the "mini-evangelists." I wouldn't mind those people going away. I'm not convinced about the "socially inept engineers" point however. Sure, some of them couldn't make a decent UI if their life depended on it, but I believe that most of them don't because it isn't important to them (or even their users). If it were important to the developers, I think you would see UIs that are accessable to a wider user-base. This doesn't happen because the developers have an attitude of, "If you like it, use/improve it; if not, don't." This is a fine attitude from my standpoint.
Is anyone else bothered by the quantity of [clarifications] the author/editor inserted? It seems to me that they might change the meaning in some cases. Besides that, most of them are unnecessary.
Have you tried to use MathML? As far as I'm concerned, it sucks. The level of verbosity just to get a definite integral for example is rediculous. Also when I tried it on mozilla there was no support for content tags, only presentation. I would be much happier with a TeX plugin.
Read it again. TiBook. TiBook. TiBook. That would be a laptop, which implies a built-in mouse. He wants a laptop with a built-in three button mouse, instead of buying an external mouse and dragging it around with him.
But Linus is real!!! I can prove it because I talked to him!!! And everything in Just For Fun is really true!!! Next you'll be trying to tell me that Linux is billions of years old.
Here's my idea: All the Linux news sites should have their own kernel.org (semi-)mirror. That way, as soon as you read about a new kernel being released, you can download it from that same site. The bad thing is, that's a lot of bandwidth for each news site, but hopefully people get their news from enough sources that it wouldn't be too bad for any particular site.
That is the most utterly clueless article and statements I've read in a long time. We need to get a few gross of clue sticks and go on a search-and-destroy.
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dude, that's the third time you posted that comment in the last few months! wtf? Troll.
Also, this is not only copyright infringement - the letter cites the Lanham Act, which makes it illegal to engage in unfair competition. That's essentially what MacFixIt (and now Slashdot, incidentally) has done - forced Apple's full OS X 10.1 product to compete unfairly with a $19.95 CD.
They forced Apple to unfairly compete with itself? Somehow I don't think the act covers that. It's surely about one company competing with another. Macfixit isn't competing with apple.
That's what makes it so funny! I like how she went to apparent non-belief to full belief just from being told some silly story. She'd make a shitty atheist.
If people aren't allowed to speak, then someone will say, "They won't allow us to speak because they can't argue against what we're saying; they're afraid of the truth, and we're going to MAKE them listen to us."
That's a very good point, and one I hadn't thought of before. Although, it doesn't make me hate those bastards any less, maybe it could have been prevented that way.
I have noticed on some small programs that -Os actually made the binary bigger than -O3! Also, stripping the binaries produced with 2.95 and 3.0 doesn't reduce the size disparity.
Why is it that whenever journalists talk about Windows or Microsoft, they say things like, "HOPELESS OPTIMISM must be a fundamental part of human nature, because we want to believe that new operating systems truly represent an improvement on their predecessors," when they are talking about Windows. Why do they represent it as a generalization when there is only one example that they have any experience with? Other parts of the article are funny too, but I just wanted to voice a pet peeve.
It's also not innovative except in allowing people to pass whole words in the form of tags when they could pass symbols and save bandwidth.
Well, I'll agree that html is getting more verbose than is necessary, but using a binary format is just a Bad Idea. The content can be compressed with gzip instead while it is sent out over the wire, and have the benefit of being small, while also being human-readable. Strangely enough, lots of browsers and servers support this. Why else would you get like 12 kBps on html when you get 3 kBps on compressed data?
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Of course it terminates. It terminates when you reach the desired accuracy (just like Newton-Raphson iteration).
If you're using C++, Stroustrup claims that STL sort() is faster than qsort(), because it gives the compiler a chance to optimize your code. Of course, it also bloats your program for the same reason.
I love your point about the "mini-evangelists." I wouldn't mind those people going away. I'm not convinced about the "socially inept engineers" point however. Sure, some of them couldn't make a decent UI if their life depended on it, but I believe that most of them don't because it isn't important to them (or even their users). If it were important to the developers, I think you would see UIs that are accessable to a wider user-base. This doesn't happen because the developers have an attitude of, "If you like it, use/improve it; if not, don't." This is a fine attitude from my standpoint.
Except for the pecuiliar views of the XSane author. http://bugs.debian.org/132679
Is anyone else bothered by the quantity of [clarifications] the author/editor inserted? It seems to me that they might change the meaning in some cases. Besides that, most of them are unnecessary.
^H is the backspace character, control+H. So you might say, "I hate that bitc^H^H^H^Hwoman!" You also see ^W sometimes, meaning delete previous word.
Have you tried to use MathML? As far as I'm concerned, it sucks. The level of verbosity just to get a definite integral for example is rediculous. Also when I tried it on mozilla there was no support for content tags, only presentation. I would be much happier with a TeX plugin.
Read it again.
TiBook. TiBook. TiBook.
That would be a laptop, which implies a built-in mouse. He wants a laptop with a built-in three button mouse, instead of buying an external mouse and dragging it around with him.
But Linus is real!!! I can prove it because I talked to him!!! And everything in Just For Fun is really true!!! Next you'll be trying to tell me that Linux is billions of years old.
Heh. I misread it and thought he meant the first digit, which would be a little more interesting.
learn to code...
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
while (1) cout << "I CANNOT CODE. GOTO 10\n";
return 0;
}
Here's my idea: All the Linux news sites should have their own kernel.org (semi-)mirror. That way, as soon as you read about a new kernel being released, you can download it from that same site. The bad thing is, that's a lot of bandwidth for each news site, but hopefully people get their news from enough sources that it wouldn't be too bad for any particular site.
That is the most utterly clueless article and statements I've read in a long time. We need to get a few gross of clue sticks and go on a search-and-destroy.
dude, that's the third time you posted that comment in the last few months! wtf? Troll.
That's a very good point, and one I hadn't thought of before. Although, it doesn't make me hate those bastards any less, maybe it could have been prevented that way.
I have noticed on some small programs that -Os actually made the binary bigger than -O3! Also, stripping the binaries produced with 2.95 and 3.0 doesn't reduce the size disparity.
Why is it that whenever journalists talk about Windows or Microsoft, they say things like, "HOPELESS OPTIMISM must be a fundamental part of human nature, because we want to believe that new operating systems truly represent an improvement on their predecessors," when they are talking about Windows. Why do they represent it as a generalization when there is only one example that they have any experience with? Other parts of the article are funny too, but I just wanted to voice a pet peeve.
Beautiful AND hilarious. Thank You.