Ok, we know, we all know - Apple is a hardware company, they make their money selling hardware. You are not any cooler for saying that yet again. It's common knowledge, you are not smarter than the rest.
No. You write a EULA when you want to try to limit what people do with things they bought from you (it still boggles my mind that these things are allowed to exist at all). I would think that anything a user might want to do with GPLed software is covered by regular copyright law.
Uh, it has been proven that they are a monopoly - remember that court case thingie? Actually, that they are a monopoly is self-evident, what was proven was that they are an abusive monopoly. Just because they weren't punished doesn't mean they aren't a monopoly anymore.
You just know that during the first test flight it's going to get sucked into a wormhole and end up on a ship, a living ship, full of strange alien creatures.
Not trying to suggest any replacements or anything, but just for the record, PostgreSQL has trigger/view/stored proc support (among other things), can't say I know anything about powerbuilder, though. MySQL is just not the OS database engine. (though it is nice for what it does, I use both of the above alongside oracle).
Oh, and I do realize that no sane person would through out a working system and replace it with something else just because it's linux/os/free/cool/whatever, just you know, spreading the word;)
Re:A (hopefully) unbiased opinion on Perl v. Pytho
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Sigh. Since apparently it's useful to specify our linguistic orientation at the beginning: I work in Java and Perl for the most part, I am at least familiar with most other popular languages (I am not sure if I would go as far as "smattering" though), oh and I like Perl.
Ok, so your problems with perl are how it's designed, that it can't be implemented in terms of itself (wtf?), that you have to security audit it (what do you usually do? hope really hard that it's secure?) and apparently it would be better off being whitespace sensitive. Oh and I am sure that first type functions are somehow supremely better than sub refs.
Then you proceed to sneer at the concept of "practical". Hm, can you tell me how any of that affects software development (that which we, in the real world, use programming languages to accomplish)?
Out of curiosity, when you say "The CGI space has been seemingly co-opted completely by Perl", do you believe that everyone else is just stupid, and only you can see that this awful, awful language shouldn't be used at all? Incidentally, your assertion that PHP is somehow the logical successor to Perl to completely take over webapps leaves me doubting if you are as familiar with either, as you claim to be ("smattering" is a pretty strong term, after all).
Of course Perl has it's share of faults, every language has faults, posting long diatrabes about how certain languages are useless based half on stupid cliches and half on really esoteric "problems" is a fetish even worse than being a language zealot.
be a programming zealot, learn as many languages as possible, and which one to use in a given situation.
This is all nice and dandy, but at some point you come to realize that there are only about half a dozen commonly used languages out there, and that at any one place of employ you are likely to be using only two or three of them, at most; and that at some point you have to start worrying about getting shit done (and quickly) rather than selecting a language most perfectly ideal to the task at hand; because in the end, the time they are paying you for is more valuable than your arbitrary aesthetics.
For those wondering why I took the time to answer a stupid clueless diatribe with an angry "biased" diatribe - I'm waiting for clustalw to finish running before I go home, and have little else to do:)
Er, I just wanted to say something different - it seems that every single >2 post so far simply points out that this is not a tablet - ok, we got it. It doesn't make it any more of a "not a tablet" if everybody mentions it.
Article's numbers not clear
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I need to know how many genes we have in Libraries of Congress - these numbers just don't make any sense otherwise.
Re:I thought so.
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Frankly, I would have more faith in your scientific reasoning if you knew the difference between a gene and a genome.
Mostly this is a crowd that confuses their ability to make money with being truly significant. They all operate under the same set of deluded assumptions about themselves, they're drawn to this type of community for the insulation from reality it provides.
Hm, s/make money/type/; and I'd think you were talking about Slashdot:)
Oh no!! Not a couple of days! And I almost read it, too - I feel so dirty now. To think that a number of actual days has passed since the story first appeared and I have failed to read it. Damn.
Don't even joke about that! Tracking down Gates and Balmer (with a machete on-hand) would be really difficult to fit into my schedule, but would have to be done, should MS ever touch Perl (or perl, for that matter) in any manner.
Perl does have very limited "prototypes", unpopular as they are.
I would chalk this one up to personal preference - don't think I've ever noticed the absence of named parameters in perl (my experience is about equal parts perl and java, but mostly perl lately), but I guess it's important to some people.
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Ok, we know, we all know - Apple is a hardware company, they make their money selling hardware. You are not any cooler for saying that yet again. It's common knowledge, you are not smarter than the rest.
No. You write a EULA when you want to try to limit what people do with things they bought from you (it still boggles my mind that these things are allowed to exist at all). I would think that anything a user might want to do with GPLed software is covered by regular copyright law.
Uh, it has been proven that they are a monopoly - remember that court case thingie? Actually, that they are a monopoly is self-evident, what was proven was that they are an abusive monopoly. Just because they weren't punished doesn't mean they aren't a monopoly anymore.
It is? Cool!
pft, lightweight.
You forgot the sixth branch - MiniPax... I mean the Department of Homeland Security.
The interesting part is that Tom's blatant bias oscillates so frequently that you never know who he loves this week, AMD or Intel.
heh, Ivanova...
I would think the more logical name would be "BrownShorts"... well, it's not as bad as some distro names out there.
You just know that during the first test flight it's going to get sucked into a wormhole and end up on a ship, a living ship, full of strange alien creatures.
Oh, and I do realize that no sane person would through out a working system and replace it with something else just because it's linux/os/free/cool/whatever, just you know, spreading the word ;)
- Replace legacy UNIX systems with Linux.
- Profit!!!
If we are talking about "legacy" systems, anyway.Ok, so your problems with perl are how it's designed, that it can't be implemented in terms of itself (wtf?), that you have to security audit it (what do you usually do? hope really hard that it's secure?) and apparently it would be better off being whitespace sensitive. Oh and I am sure that first type functions are somehow supremely better than sub refs.
Then you proceed to sneer at the concept of "practical". Hm, can you tell me how any of that affects software development (that which we, in the real world, use programming languages to accomplish)?
Out of curiosity, when you say "The CGI space has been seemingly co-opted completely by Perl", do you believe that everyone else is just stupid, and only you can see that this awful, awful language shouldn't be used at all? Incidentally, your assertion that PHP is somehow the logical successor to Perl to completely take over webapps leaves me doubting if you are as familiar with either, as you claim to be ("smattering" is a pretty strong term, after all).
Of course Perl has it's share of faults, every language has faults, posting long diatrabes about how certain languages are useless based half on stupid cliches and half on really esoteric "problems" is a fetish even worse than being a language zealot.
be a programming zealot, learn as many languages as possible, and which one to use in a given situation.
This is all nice and dandy, but at some point you come to realize that there are only about half a dozen commonly used languages out there, and that at any one place of employ you are likely to be using only two or three of them, at most; and that at some point you have to start worrying about getting shit done (and quickly) rather than selecting a language most perfectly ideal to the task at hand; because in the end, the time they are paying you for is more valuable than your arbitrary aesthetics.
For those wondering why I took the time to answer a stupid clueless diatribe with an angry "biased" diatribe - I'm waiting for clustalw to finish running before I go home, and have little else to do :)
Hey, don't pooh pooh POOP, I use it every day!
Er, I just wanted to say something different - it seems that every single >2 post so far simply points out that this is not a tablet - ok, we got it. It doesn't make it any more of a "not a tablet" if everybody mentions it.
I need to know how many genes we have in Libraries of Congress - these numbers just don't make any sense otherwise.
Frankly, I would have more faith in your scientific reasoning if you knew the difference between a gene and a genome.
Hm, s/make money/type/; and I'd think you were talking about Slashdot :)
Terry Pratchett's a dude? Never realized that.
Um, no. Retarded movie-goers who still go to see it are why that drek makes it to theaters. And hey, it's cheap to make.
Oh no!! Not a couple of days! And I almost read it, too - I feel so dirty now. To think that a number of actual days has passed since the story first appeared and I have failed to read it. Damn.
Don't even joke about that! Tracking down Gates and Balmer (with a machete on-hand) would be really difficult to fit into my schedule, but would have to be done, should MS ever touch Perl (or perl, for that matter) in any manner.
I would chalk this one up to personal preference - don't think I've ever noticed the absence of named parameters in perl (my experience is about equal parts perl and java, but mostly perl lately), but I guess it's important to some people.
Hm I see most scripts have a .pl extension - does slashdot use Acme::Inline::PERL then? :)
I am not so sure about that.