Something that is clearly been overlooked here is that of personal taste and comfort. Much of the code I (we?) write is basic code that we've done a million times in a million different arrangements. For some of us music helps us get into a flow, and for those of us who have been doing it for a long time, it almost becomes instinctual. It's much like driving to a place you've gone a ton of times, your mind way wander you don't think about the specific turns but you get to the destination just fine. When it comes to a more complicated coding task, I always feel the need to pause my music to think it out. My boss said to me once "I don't understand how you concentrate and listen to music at the same time". I told him it has always helped me, even studying in school. In my case my boss is also a coder for many years. In the end it's a matter of personal taste, some of us focus better with background noise, where some of us need silence. Some of us like falling asleep w/ the tv on, some of us can't. Music's effect on code quality is given WAY too much credit.
Rick
Here's one thing I don't understand,as IANAL. Say the courts struck down the GPL as invalid, why is it SCO and KISS believe that, it instantly makes the source code public domain? Having the GPL invalidated pretty much invalidates thier right to use the code at all doesn't it?
lol.. the simpsons didn't get less mature.. it's exactly as it was when it started... Remember.. the simpsons's don't age.. but you do... so ask yourself this... has the show changed, or have you?
Just becase it's not free means that/. can't talk about it?
Last I checked it was "News for Nerds", not "News about open-souce/Free Softward for Nerds"
Comon...
Rick
You make it sound that there is someone with a rubber stamp authorizing each new distribution. It is simply a matter of different people having different ideas on the best way to distribute GNU/Linux.
Some people would have you think otherwise, but choice is a good thing.
This is where efficent coding comes in, and thinking outside the box, while i'm not a professional C programmer, it would be hard to get a directory listing of files the same length and do a case insensitive match on it. Alot more efficient than testing each case, and I'm sure there is a better way to do it than this.
I'm not disputing that it'll bloat slow it down slightly, but that's what you get if you want ease of use.
Well chaning the linux or BSD file systems to accomplish ease of use has never been the mentality of the community. I think a task like this should be the responsibility of the application.
If you ask for letters.txt, and the app can't find it, it's not to hard to see if there is a similar named file in different case.
"Forget Passport, forget web-services and all the other pieces and focus only on the framework and the common language runtime (that the focus of MONO) - its neat, and being able to compile code on several platforms without worrying about ports is a great achievement."
WHAT?!!! Yeah thank Sun for it... ever hear of JAVA?! I don't understand why people think.NET is a great achievement, when all it does is copy the idealism of Java.
Rick
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XSLT has the format-number() function, which could be used to format a date. I personally don't recommend mixing XSLT with anything. If you need your date formatted in a specific way, I recommend storing the data in a different structure and use pure XSLT.
Rick
I for one totally agree with everything you said.. i inisit on all of my work being html compliant (any new stuff will be xhtml-strict).. The only thing I disagree with is this :
"And chances are, if you aren't writing proper HTML now, you're not commenting your code eaither. "
I disagree... HTML by it's nature is commented. I never really felt the need to comment *MOST* html. I don't need to say "This is a table for...." when the markup describes it pretty well to begin with. Now I definately think on complex and dynamic sites there may be a need, but for plain static pages.. I don't see a need to comment them.
And my perl code is ALWAYS commented when others might read it:)
Rick
What I was trying to understand is the following.
You have C#, which is alot like Java to begin with, no doubt created with mircrosoft's J++ method of thinking. Extent and Conquer.
Now we have J#, a Java clone that will run on a JavaVM, but only with the.NET Framework. What VM would this work on other than MS's VM (which, if i remember correctly, can no longer be distributed as per the whole Java thing between Sun and MS).
So I install Sun's VM on a '.NET' enabled workstation and now my Java App can use '.NET' extenstions? Why not just port it to C#, the languages are so similar?
It just seems so silly to me. Apps are written in Java because of it's portability.. using J# defeates the purpose of using Java to begin with.
Am I still missing something?
Rick
It's designed to run on a Java Virtual Machine but will only work on the.Net Framework.... This sounds absurd, why not just use Java? I'll admit I'm not to informed on the whole '.NET' strategy (frankly, don't care), but can someone educate me on the possible use of J#?
"That depends on the software. For a game, sure. But I could easily see some productivity software being as needed by a neighbor as a lawnmower. Yet we'd scoff if someone tried to make lending a lawnmower to your next-door neighbor illegal on the grounds that it takes money from lawnmower companies."
Is there ANY software you *need*?
Let's go back to the lawnmower analogy. After you lend him your lawnmower you don't both have lawnmowers do you? Eventually you can tell your neighbor that you don't want to keep lending it to him, and he should get his own. That doesn't hold true with software, once you lend it to him, he has his own copy and he doesn't need to bother you for it any more. And he most likely will never buy one.
"As a professional software engineer of 14 years, and sometimes commercial game beta tester, I know exactly how hard these folks work, how much they invest, etc. Do they "deserve" all they money they can get? Perhaps. So do I. So do you. So do ditch diggers. That doesn't mean the government must morally give me or you or the ditch diggers monopolies to guarantee it."
How did monopolies work into this? Buying a game doesn't lead to monopolies.
The "Period" remark was about the definition of stealing and not meant to invalidate your point.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough... If you take something that is not availible for free, it's stealing.. although we can debate that if you like, I thought it was cut and dry.:)
Rick
"The moral argument is on the other side, where I'm forced to refuse to help to a friend or neighbor when asked, just so someone else can make economic gain off of them"
You make it sound like your stealing bread to help feed thier family.. you not 'helping' them you stealing for them. They would be just fine w/o it to begin with.
Believe it or not there are people who work HARD to make good games, and their are companies who invest alot of money, these ppl deserve the money they make, and when you pirate the software that would normally be bought, you stealing. Period.
Now, I have aquired pirated software and music, but I don't justify it. It's wrong. Morally or leagally.
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I believe it falls under the "stuff that matters" clause. Although I have no doubt Scalia will dissent with that.
Something that is clearly been overlooked here is that of personal taste and comfort. Much of the code I (we?) write is basic code that we've done a million times in a million different arrangements. For some of us music helps us get into a flow, and for those of us who have been doing it for a long time, it almost becomes instinctual. It's much like driving to a place you've gone a ton of times, your mind way wander you don't think about the specific turns but you get to the destination just fine. When it comes to a more complicated coding task, I always feel the need to pause my music to think it out. My boss said to me once "I don't understand how you concentrate and listen to music at the same time". I told him it has always helped me, even studying in school. In my case my boss is also a coder for many years. In the end it's a matter of personal taste, some of us focus better with background noise, where some of us need silence. Some of us like falling asleep w/ the tv on, some of us can't. Music's effect on code quality is given WAY too much credit. Rick
Three dimensions were used in the show, they would set headings of "mark" , allowing for all vectors in 3d space. Rick
Terrorists with bombs don't kill people, CELL PHONES kill people.
Off topic or not, great question.
Here's one thing I don't understand,as IANAL. Say the courts struck down the GPL as invalid, why is it SCO and KISS believe that, it instantly makes the source code public domain? Having the GPL invalidated pretty much invalidates thier right to use the code at all doesn't it?
It's because all us developers think our way is the better way :P
Rick
lol.. the simpsons didn't get less mature.. it's exactly as it was when it started... Remember.. the simpsons's don't age.. but you do... so ask yourself this... has the show changed, or have you?
Just becase it's not free means that /. can't talk about it?
Last I checked it was "News for Nerds", not "News about open-souce/Free Softward for Nerds"
Comon...
Rick
You make it sound that there is someone with a rubber stamp authorizing each new distribution. It is simply a matter of different people having different ideas on the best way to distribute GNU/Linux.
Some people would have you think otherwise, but choice is a good thing.
Rick
Yeah, it looks great.. Saw the news a day or so ago on dot.kde.org, and I was like 'Beta already! they just released alpha' :)
Rick
It's ALPHA 1, not beta. Rick
This is where efficent coding comes in, and thinking outside the box, while i'm not a professional C programmer, it would be hard to get a directory listing of files the same length and do a case insensitive match on it. Alot more efficient than testing each case, and I'm sure there is a better way to do it than this.
I'm not disputing that it'll bloat slow it down slightly, but that's what you get if you want ease of use.
Well chaning the linux or BSD file systems to accomplish ease of use has never been the mentality of the community. I think a task like this should be the responsibility of the application.
If you ask for letters.txt, and the app can't find it, it's not to hard to see if there is a similar named file in different case.
Rick
"Forget Passport, forget web-services and all the other pieces and focus only on the framework and the common language runtime (that the focus of MONO) - its neat, and being able to compile code on several platforms without worrying about ports is a great achievement." WHAT?!!! Yeah thank Sun for it... ever hear of JAVA?! I don't understand why people think .NET is a great achievement, when all it does is copy the idealism of Java.
Rick
XSLT has the format-number() function, which could be used to format a date. I personally don't recommend mixing XSLT with anything. If you need your date formatted in a specific way, I recommend storing the data in a different structure and use pure XSLT. Rick
If It's open sources, what to stop someone from removing the ads? Or am I missing something?
I for one totally agree with everything you said.. i inisit on all of my work being html compliant (any new stuff will be xhtml-strict).. The only thing I disagree with is this : "And chances are, if you aren't writing proper HTML now, you're not commenting your code eaither. " I disagree... HTML by it's nature is commented. I never really felt the need to comment *MOST* html. I don't need to say "This is a table for...." when the markup describes it pretty well to begin with. Now I definately think on complex and dynamic sites there may be a need, but for plain static pages.. I don't see a need to comment them. And my perl code is ALWAYS commented when others might read it :)
Rick
What I was trying to understand is the following. You have C#, which is alot like Java to begin with, no doubt created with mircrosoft's J++ method of thinking. Extent and Conquer. Now we have J#, a Java clone that will run on a JavaVM, but only with the .NET Framework. What VM would this work on other than MS's VM (which, if i remember correctly, can no longer be distributed as per the whole Java thing between Sun and MS).
So I install Sun's VM on a '.NET' enabled workstation and now my Java App can use '.NET' extenstions? Why not just port it to C#, the languages are so similar?
It just seems so silly to me. Apps are written in Java because of it's portability.. using J# defeates the purpose of using Java to begin with.
Am I still missing something?
Rick
It's designed to run on a Java Virtual Machine but will only work on the .Net Framework.... This sounds absurd, why not just use Java? I'll admit I'm not to informed on the whole '.NET' strategy (frankly, don't care), but can someone educate me on the possible use of J#?
Rick
"That depends on the software. For a game, sure. But I could easily see some productivity software being as needed by a neighbor as a lawnmower. Yet we'd scoff if someone tried to make lending a lawnmower to your next-door neighbor illegal on the grounds that it takes money from lawnmower companies." Is there ANY software you *need*? Let's go back to the lawnmower analogy. After you lend him your lawnmower you don't both have lawnmowers do you? Eventually you can tell your neighbor that you don't want to keep lending it to him, and he should get his own. That doesn't hold true with software, once you lend it to him, he has his own copy and he doesn't need to bother you for it any more. And he most likely will never buy one. "As a professional software engineer of 14 years, and sometimes commercial game beta tester, I know exactly how hard these folks work, how much they invest, etc. Do they "deserve" all they money they can get? Perhaps. So do I. So do you. So do ditch diggers. That doesn't mean the government must morally give me or you or the ditch diggers monopolies to guarantee it." How did monopolies work into this? Buying a game doesn't lead to monopolies. The "Period" remark was about the definition of stealing and not meant to invalidate your point. Maybe I wasn't clear enough... If you take something that is not availible for free, it's stealing.. although we can debate that if you like, I thought it was cut and dry. :)
Rick
"The moral argument is on the other side, where I'm forced to refuse to help to a friend or neighbor when asked, just so someone else can make economic gain off of them"
You make it sound like your stealing bread to help feed thier family.. you not 'helping' them you stealing for them. They would be just fine w/o it to begin with.
Believe it or not there are people who work HARD to make good games, and their are companies who invest alot of money, these ppl deserve the money they make, and when you pirate the software that would normally be bought, you stealing. Period.
Now, I have aquired pirated software and music, but I don't justify it. It's wrong. Morally or leagally.
Rick
Umm how is the fact that the members of UnitedLinux contradicting each other Offtopic? Sheesh.
Am I the only scared one here? Already contradicting each other?
Well, if the cable company catches you, they aren't gonna break down your door and arrest you now are they.