Yeah, I like Disney movies, too. And even though Disney's personal Senator (Fritz) is trying his best to destroy the computer industry, or at least parts of it including Linux, the fact that Disney is using Linux to make its very high profile products is a gigantic win for the home team. Plus, now, Disney may have a reason to fight Fritz (or change his agenda) on a few things. Once they go Linux, they will probably want to keep using Linux. I'm sure they didn't make the decision to switch to it lightly.
There's some. For instance, Stallman, to date, hasn't used his military to invade other countries and kill millions of his own citizens. I know it's a nit, but I was here to pick it.
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or even farther to the right: Libertarian
Uhhh... no. Libertarians would please have you refrain from confusing them with right-wing republicans and other authoritarian nutjobs.
It has, indeed, become quite emberrassing to be an American
Pshaw. Why? because the US isn't running with the herd? Ask those uppity Euros about their little anti-semitic problem sometime, see if they have a good answer. Or ask why, if they're so hot on human rights, that they don't seem to actually care about humans in countries other than their own? Etc.
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Noone should be told what to do. Of course people should be told what to do, to a degree
Here's a better way to put it: People shouldn't be made to live for the sake of others.
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One reason people tend to see Global Warming as an "extreme left" issue is that quite often, "global warming" is used as an excuse for all kinds of collectivist claptrap that's unrelated to the stated problem -- which is the planet heating up.
For instance, "solutions" often include massive wealth "redistribution," controls imposed on first-world economies only, a call for elimination or nationalization of whole industries, etc.
"Global warming!" these days has the same ring to it as "Won't someone please think of the children?!?!"
it's totally a politcal issue. If "the left" were not actually intent on riding the coattails of disaster (real or imagined) into power, then people might take them more seriously. Being told that you're ruining the planet, your country and ideals are evil, and that you need "enlightened rule" by a bunch of arrogant fucks kind of rubs the wrong way. If you'll notice, most of the crusaders for global warming are not scientists, they're members of "Non-Governmental Organizations," who want power and money real bad. The actual scientific community is much less hysterical, much less unified, non-political, and much less sure of global warming and its causes.
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Yeah, it was an old-school triumph of marketing over reality. "Hmmm," says Erik, "this whole place appears to be a bunch of rocks a frozen sludge covered by snow. What should we name it, then? Well, we need more colonists... how about 'Greenland?' That'll get 'em coming!"
Case-sensitivity is easy, as it's just comparing bytes. Case-insensitivity is hard for non-English (and the more non-English, the harder it gets) languages, because you have to search through a table of equivalent glyphs. It's a lot more overhead. Also, the Unix core of OSX doesn't use Unicode natively, which adds a layer of complexity.
Why are DVD less epensive than CDs? Movies cost more to make than music. DVDs cost more to make than CDs. So why are movies almost always sold for less than soundtracks for movies?
... starts with a "G", ends in "REED"... you know the one...
"On the heels of a white paper alledging that Open Source software might include viruses, Microsoft has shipped the latest version of its proprietary software development environment with a virus. The irony meter is, by all accounts, pegged."
A special function called main is the entry point to all C++ programs. This function is not predefined by the compiler; rather, it must be supplied in the program text. If you are writing code that adheres to the Unicode programming model, you can use the wide-character version of main, wmain. The declaration syntax for main is:
int main( );
or, optionally:
int main( int argc[ , char *argv[ ] [, char *envp[ ] ] ] );
The declaration syntax for wmain is as follows:
int wmain( );
or, optionally:
int wmain( int argc[ , wchar_t *argv[ ] [, wchar_t *envp[ ] ] ] );
Alternatively, the main and wmain functions can be declared as returning void (no return value). If you declare main or wmain as returning void, you cannot return an exit code to the parent process or operating system using a return statement; to return an exit code when main or wmain are declared as void, you must use the exit funct
int PASCAL WinMain( HANDLE hInstance,// 3.x, NT/95/98
HANDLE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpszCmdParam,
int nCmdShow ) { ... same for Windows 3.x, Windows NT, Windows 98, et al... }
If I place the mouse cursor over a word, left-click, and drag, nothing happens. To select text, I have to place the cursor at the end of a section of text, and drag backwards to select the whole section; then, paste into Notepad (for instance) and trim the parts I didn't want.
* Selecting text for copy/paste is difficult. I often have to select more than I want, and then trim it down.
* In the Windows browser, selecting text will even do strange things like go back the the previous page, or close the browser window! It may be the gestures getting confused, but it's highly annoying.
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Yeah, I like Disney movies, too. And even though Disney's personal Senator (Fritz) is trying his best to destroy the computer industry, or at least parts of it including Linux, the fact that Disney is using Linux to make its very high profile products is a gigantic win for the home team. Plus, now, Disney may have a reason to fight Fritz (or change his agenda) on a few things. Once they go Linux, they will probably want to keep using Linux. I'm sure they didn't make the decision to switch to it lightly.
.... which brings us back to Newton:
"Fuckage increases with time."
HFS and HFS+ are both in the "POS" category of filesystems. One big b-tree catalog file? Yuk.
What Apple needs is XFS, or Reiser with Named Streams (or Extended Attributes).
Or perhaps even UFS with softupdates and named streams support, plus a case-insensitive-but-case-retaining option.
There's some. For instance, Stallman, to date, hasn't used his military to invade other countries and kill millions of his own citizens. I know it's a nit, but I was here to pick it.
or even farther to the right: Libertarian
Uhhh... no. Libertarians would please have you refrain from confusing them with right-wing republicans and other authoritarian nutjobs.
It has, indeed, become quite emberrassing to be an American
Pshaw. Why? because the US isn't running with the herd? Ask those uppity Euros about their little anti-semitic problem sometime, see if they have a good answer. Or ask why, if they're so hot on human rights, that they don't seem to actually care about humans in countries other than their own? Etc.
Noone should be told what to do.
Of course people should be told what to do, to a degree
Here's a better way to put it: People shouldn't be made to live for the sake of others.
One reason people tend to see Global Warming as an "extreme left" issue is that quite often, "global warming" is used as an excuse for all kinds of collectivist claptrap that's unrelated to the stated problem -- which is the planet heating up.
For instance, "solutions" often include massive wealth "redistribution," controls imposed on first-world economies only, a call for elimination or nationalization of whole industries, etc.
"Global warming!" these days has the same ring to it as "Won't someone please think of the children?!?!"
it's totally a politcal issue. If "the left" were not actually intent on riding the coattails of disaster (real or imagined) into power, then people might take them more seriously. Being told that you're ruining the planet, your country and ideals are evil, and that you need "enlightened rule" by a bunch of arrogant fucks kind of rubs the wrong way. If you'll notice, most of the crusaders for global warming are not scientists, they're members of "Non-Governmental Organizations," who want power and money real bad. The actual scientific community is much less hysterical, much less unified, non-political, and much less sure of global warming and its causes.
Yeah, it was an old-school triumph of marketing over reality. "Hmmm," says Erik, "this whole place appears to be a bunch of rocks a frozen sludge covered by snow. What should we name it, then? Well, we need more colonists... how about 'Greenland?' That'll get 'em coming!"
21% of the users in my market segment (medical education) still use Navigator 4.7x. Shudder.
They still use GCC... but then, there are no BSD-licensed compilers.
"Synchronous" does mean poor performance when it involves a slow mechanical system like a disk drive.
Sync writes on BSD are not magic -- they have to wait the the disk mechanics to operate just like on other OSes.
Case-sensitivity is easy, as it's just comparing bytes. Case-insensitivity is hard for non-English (and the more non-English, the harder it gets) languages, because you have to search through a table of equivalent glyphs. It's a lot more overhead. Also, the Unix core of OSX doesn't use Unicode natively, which adds a layer of complexity.
Question:
... you know the one ...
Why are DVD less epensive than CDs? Movies cost more to make than music. DVDs cost more to make than CDs. So why are movies almost always sold for less than soundtracks for movies?
... starts with a "G", ends in "REED"
Wow, I hope the media pick up on that.
"On the heels of a white paper alledging that Open Source software might include viruses, Microsoft has shipped the latest version of its proprietary software development environment with a virus. The irony meter is, by all accounts, pegged."
The new "Trustworthy Computing" slogan: "Caveat Emptor"
It only infects one file that's never referenced by the system
So nice of them to include a useless, unneeded file in their package.
You can also read about main() in the MSDN.
Program Startup: the main Function
A special function called main is the entry point to all C++ programs. This function is not predefined by the compiler; rather, it must be supplied in the program text. If you are writing code that adheres to the Unicode programming model, you can use the wide-character version of main, wmain. The declaration syntax for main is:
int main( );
or, optionally:
int main( int argc[ , char *argv[ ] [, char *envp[ ] ] ] );
The declaration syntax for wmain is as follows:
int wmain( );
or, optionally:
int wmain( int argc[ , wchar_t *argv[ ] [, wchar_t *envp[ ] ] ] );
Alternatively, the main and wmain functions can be declared as returning void (no return value). If you declare main or wmain as returning void, you cannot return an exit code to the parent process or operating system using a return statement; to return an exit code when main or wmain are declared as void, you must use the exit funct
Read about WinMain in the MSDN library.
// 3.x, NT/95/98
... same for Windows 3.x, Windows NT, Windows 98, et al ...
int PASCAL WinMain( HANDLE hInstance,
HANDLE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpszCmdParam,
int nCmdShow )
{
}
Opening APIs isn't a reasonable punishment for prix fixing -- it's a non-sequitur. Fees, damages, penalties -- these are all just punishments.
If I place the mouse cursor over a word, left-click, and drag, nothing happens. To select text, I have to place the cursor at the end of a section of text, and drag backwards to select the whole section; then, paste into Notepad (for instance) and trim the parts I didn't want.
I'm working on porting Skinux to Linux, for the purposes of making a nice-looking GUI for an "audio TiVo" from a GCT-Allwell STB.
* Selecting text for copy/paste is difficult. I often have to select more than I want, and then trim it down.
* In the Windows browser, selecting text will even do strange things like go back the the previous page, or close the browser window! It may be the gestures getting confused, but it's highly annoying.
They'll have to stop using Linux right after they outlaw it.
I'm assuming that would be the case, anyway.