Also, GDC needs to become more stable and integrated into GCC, or at least appear in most Linux distros' package repositories. A 1.0-release with a stable ABI will also help. And the D-mangling patch for GDB should be integrated...
A stable cross-platform GUI library is also needed. WxWidgets is good on Windows and UNIX but only "OK" on MacOS X. A stable release of WxD will do. DWT (D port of Java's SWT) seems promising also but AFAIK only available as a win32-only alpha release so far. D bindings for Qt 4 would rock!
D is a really great language and I really hope it will catch on! It has a lot of potential to be the next big programming language in the areas where C and C++ rule today, and even in some of the areas where C# and Java rule. Unfortunatly I don't think it will happen because "the market" often wear blinkers but I'd love to be proven wrong.:)
No, Opera 8's JavaScript engine is still single-threaded, meaning it can only execute one event at a time, meaning that for example while it is doing an XMLHttpRequest all other JS-events on a page will freeze until it's finished. Opera 8 also don't support opacity on other things than PNG-images, making most scriptaculous effects unusable.
I just started studying at N3P in Stockholm/Sweden, which is a ~2 year (90 weeks) full time education in "Open Source entrepreneurship". It includes everything from project management to starting your own company to "IT" and basic system administration. Everything has a focus on Open Source, primary on the server side but also on the desktop application side. We have courses on Open Source licenses, software, philosophy etc. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is in the list of course material...
Basically they thought that there are too many smart people out there with great ideas and lots of self-learnt knowledge but who are stuck in the system. "Let's make nerds into company owners."
I really like this education. Rule #1 is "Don't follow the rules.":) A big part of the education is to think outside the box, avoid bureaucracy, turn crazy ideas into reality and revolutionize the world.:)
Anyway, sorry for the rant. To get to the point: When we started, everyone got an iBook to use for the course. They chose to go with Mac because it has really low support costs for them ("it just works"), and it's based on UNIX so we can run and test most Open Source applications locally without hassle (through Fink or DarwinPorts). They explicitly state that we are free to format it and install Linux or BSD though, no courses rely on Mac-specific software.
What, an anti-Christian joke on Slashdot? I'm so surprised that the most hated group on Slashdot--Christians--is the butt of constant off-topic jokes and stereotype ridicule!
If it makes you feel better I can say that I think that most other religions have even worse morals.:) And of course this wasn't a stab at any individual christian but rather a stab at those who In My Humble Opinion DO have fucked up double standard bigot morals, and they are too many to ignore...
To make you feel even better I also think that atheism often is bigotry. I'm a convinced agnostic.:) I may be a believer (in that there is something more) but I think that all organized religion is a scam and too often leads to bigotry and brainwash.
I have tinitus since 1996. I don't hear it (or more correctly, think about it) when there is some background noise but it's driving me mad when it's silent. My hearing is still very good though, on the non-damaged frequences. My tinitus has made me much more sensitive to loud volumes than I was before 1996. I frequently go to clubs and concerts and but I hate it when they crank the volume too high, although using ear plugs helps. I like moderate volume.
That said, I have a 60GB iPod Video which I use every day when I'm on the metro, bus, shopping etc. I always have the volume set to max but it's still too damn low. It's impossible to hear the music when people sitting next to me are talking, there is motor noise from the bus, etc. The background noise is often louder than the music...
I fail to see how you can get hearing damages from the iPod. I have never used an older iPod though, could they go louder?
Moral but not ethical: "You may not work on this project if you like anal sex."
(yes, this is a joke but unfortunatly most people seem to mix up "moral" with "christian/puritanian fucked up double standard bigot moral". The best thing with moral is that you can have your own. There is no Real Moral(tm).)
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One thing I forgot to mention in my last post, D is a system programming language. It aims to replace C++ first, Java/C# second. Its design is a lot cleaner than C++ (and even Java and C# in many places) and it's designed with compiler-writers in mind, which means that it is a lot more optimizable than C++. It also has support for inline assembler and things like that. You can write an OS kernel in pure D.
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Yes, D is a wonderful language! The main thing it is missing for it to take off for real now is a stable GUI library. For me, cross platform is a must for me to even look at it. Cross platform is at leastMac OS X, X11 and Windows.
Currently the most promising project is WxD but it's still not ready for production use. I'd love to see bindings for Qt 4, because it feels much more "native" (user-wise, without #ifdef'ing code for each platform) than Wx currently does, especially on OS X. Also, I find Qt to be better designed.
Search for Eudora on and you'll find a whole bunch of tools to convert your Eudora mail to standard mbox format which just about any mail program (including Thunderbird) can import...
What's even funnier (or scarier, I can't decide) is that the same search on google.se (Sweden) displays this text in Swedish at the bottom of the page:
"Som reaktion på ett klagomål som stödjer sig på USA:s lag "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA), har vi tagit bort 2 resultat från den här sidan. Om du vill kan du läsa det DMCA-relaterade klagomålet som orsakade borttagningen av ChillingEffects.org."
It's almost a word-for-word translation of the text displayed at google.com. We don't have that stupid law in Sweden (yet) so why are they crippling the results for us?
They prefer meat but don't require it in the way that cats do.
Tell that to my cat! He loves black olives, field mushrooms, broccoli, potatoes and many other vegetarian things. I have a friend who has a cat who is really crazy about feferoni. I you give her some ham and some feferoni she will eat the feferoni then only eat the ham if she is hungry...
For iPod-users, create a mono ~50kbps VBR AAC file using faac --tns -q90 -i mybook_mono.wav -o mybook_ipod.m4b . Using the extension.m4b will make the iPod treat it as a "real" audiobook and it will be bookmarkable.
For pure speech, -q0 Vorbis is more than good enough and it will also be around 50 kbps.
For those who can't use AAC or Vorbis, create a low quality MP3.
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The CVS-version of MPlayer can play .flv files.
or... you could check The Pirate Bay today. :)
Disclaimer: I haven't tried it personally, I don't even have a Windows box. But I have heard from others that it works great.
Nah, that was just a bad reinvention of Guru Meditation.
Also, GDC needs to become more stable and integrated into GCC, or at least appear in most Linux distros' package repositories. A 1.0-release with a stable ABI will also help. And the D-mangling patch for GDB should be integrated...
:)
A stable cross-platform GUI library is also needed. WxWidgets is good on Windows and UNIX but only "OK" on MacOS X. A stable release of WxD will do. DWT (D port of Java's SWT) seems promising also but AFAIK only available as a win32-only alpha release so far. D bindings for Qt 4 would rock!
D is a really great language and I really hope it will catch on! It has a lot of potential to be the next big programming language in the areas where C and C++ rule today, and even in some of the areas where C# and Java rule. Unfortunatly I don't think it will happen because "the market" often wear blinkers but I'd love to be proven wrong.
That's why I still stick to my audio books on parrot.
har har har
Great post! Sounds like me in a nutshell, and I'm going through ADD investigation right now.
No, Opera 8's JavaScript engine is still single-threaded, meaning it can only execute one event at a time, meaning that for example while it is doing an XMLHttpRequest all other JS-events on a page will freeze until it's finished. Opera 8 also don't support opacity on other things than PNG-images, making most scriptaculous effects unusable.
Heh. Poke around at tvtorrents.com
Or tvrss.net...
Please help boosting the development of the anonymous networks... Because that's what's going to happen if you keep on doing this.
Because the dead shine all night long!
:)
BTW, are you connected to yourself?
I just started studying at N3P in Stockholm/Sweden, which is a ~2 year (90 weeks) full time education in "Open Source entrepreneurship". It includes everything from project management to starting your own company to "IT" and basic system administration. Everything has a focus on Open Source, primary on the server side but also on the desktop application side. We have courses on Open Source licenses, software, philosophy etc. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is in the list of course material...
:) A big part of the education is to think outside the box, avoid bureaucracy, turn crazy ideas into reality and revolutionize the world. :)
.doc is a banned file format. :)
Basically they thought that there are too many smart people out there with great ideas and lots of self-learnt knowledge but who are stuck in the system. "Let's make nerds into company owners."
I really like this education. Rule #1 is "Don't follow the rules."
Anyway, sorry for the rant. To get to the point: When we started, everyone got an iBook to use for the course. They chose to go with Mac because it has really low support costs for them ("it just works"), and it's based on UNIX so we can run and test most Open Source applications locally without hassle (through Fink or DarwinPorts). They explicitly state that we are free to format it and install Linux or BSD though, no courses rely on Mac-specific software.
Oh, and
What, an anti-Christian joke on Slashdot? I'm so surprised that the most hated group on Slashdot--Christians--is the butt of constant off-topic jokes and stereotype ridicule!
:)
:) I may be a believer (in that there is something more) but I think that all organized religion is a scam and too often leads to bigotry and brainwash.
If it makes you feel better I can say that I think that most other religions have even worse morals.
And of course this wasn't a stab at any individual christian but rather a stab at those who In My Humble Opinion DO have fucked up double standard bigot morals, and they are too many to ignore...
To make you feel even better I also think that atheism often is bigotry. I'm a convinced agnostic.
I have tinitus since 1996. I don't hear it (or more correctly, think about it) when there is some background noise but it's driving me mad when it's silent. My hearing is still very good though, on the non-damaged frequences. My tinitus has made me much more sensitive to loud volumes than I was before 1996. I frequently go to clubs and concerts and but I hate it when they crank the volume too high, although using ear plugs helps. I like moderate volume.
That said, I have a 60GB iPod Video which I use every day when I'm on the metro, bus, shopping etc. I always have the volume set to max but it's still too damn low. It's impossible to hear the music when people sitting next to me are talking, there is motor noise from the bus, etc. The background noise is often louder than the music...
I fail to see how you can get hearing damages from the iPod. I have never used an older iPod though, could they go louder?
Moral but not ethical: "You may not work on this project if you like anal sex."
(yes, this is a joke but unfortunatly most people seem to mix up "moral" with "christian/puritanian fucked up double standard bigot moral". The best thing with moral is that you can have your own. There is no Real Moral(tm).)
One thing I forgot to mention in my last post, D is a system programming language. It aims to replace C++ first, Java/C# second. Its design is a lot cleaner than C++ (and even Java and C# in many places) and it's designed with compiler-writers in mind, which means that it is a lot more optimizable than C++. It also has support for inline assembler and things like that. You can write an OS kernel in pure D.
Yes, D is a wonderful language! The main thing it is missing for it to take off for real now is a stable GUI library. For me, cross platform is a must for me to even look at it. Cross platform is at leastMac OS X, X11 and Windows.
Currently the most promising project is WxD but it's still not ready for production use. I'd love to see bindings for Qt 4, because it feels much more "native" (user-wise, without #ifdef'ing code for each platform) than Wx currently does, especially on OS X. Also, I find Qt to be better designed.
Search for Eudora on and you'll find a whole bunch of tools to convert your Eudora mail to standard mbox format which just about any mail program (including Thunderbird) can import...
What's even funnier (or scarier, I can't decide) is that the same search on google.se (Sweden) displays this text in Swedish at the bottom of the page:
"Som reaktion på ett klagomål som stödjer sig på USA:s lag "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA), har vi tagit bort 2 resultat från den här sidan. Om du vill kan du läsa det DMCA-relaterade klagomålet som orsakade borttagningen av ChillingEffects.org."
It's almost a word-for-word translation of the text displayed at google.com. We don't have that stupid law in Sweden (yet) so why are they crippling the results for us?
Weren't most heavy workstations in Apple's primary domain (graphics, video, design) based on MIPS at that time, in Silicon Graphics' workstations?
> i find this amazing... you were at a party?
Yeah, he was. With doctors and health researchers discussing work.
a significant percentage of the churchgoing population (who, in turn, are a significant percentage of the population at large)
Please, this is about Europe, not the US...
Dark Energy May Be Changing
Dude, the goatse.cx domain hasn't been available for a year now! You can find some goatse.cx mirrors on Wikipedia, for example http://goatse.ragingfist.net. If you're going to goatse-troll, at least post working links. :)
They prefer meat but don't require it in the way that cats do.
Tell that to my cat! He loves black olives, field mushrooms, broccoli, potatoes and many other vegetarian things.
I have a friend who has a cat who is really crazy about feferoni. I you give her some ham and some feferoni she will eat the feferoni then only eat the ham if she is hungry...
For iPod-users, create a mono ~50kbps VBR AAC file using faac --tns -q90 -i mybook_mono.wav -o mybook_ipod.m4b . Using the extension .m4b will make the iPod treat it as a "real" audiobook and it will be bookmarkable.
For pure speech, -q0 Vorbis is more than good enough and it will also be around 50 kbps.
For those who can't use AAC or Vorbis, create a low quality MP3.