I have heard for years (How many? Almost ten? Might be wrong) that KDE was going to come to a "dead end" because of (inster one: non-GPL, strict-GPL-non-commercial, closed development, pact with the devil, etc.), and that Gnome would eventually dominate due to its keeping with the "true spirit" of the FOSS movement.
Scope and visibility resolution has its own set of complexities and the pitfalls that go with them.
Another added problem is that many languages dynamically allocate variables that are not global as they come into scope. Statically allocated from a design perspective, but dynamic in actual execution. For high-intensity applications this can be a problem.
AFAIK Many video game developers, for whom performance is key, use global variables exclusively. More to keep track of, but less complexity and (every once in a while) better performance.
And what was the Cold War? Were the US, UK and USSR just going to hurl nerf balls at each other? Was the Berlin Wall just a big pile of Oktoberfest bieren kegs?
And don't fool yourself into thinking that the UN had anything to do with the Cold War not erupting in open violence on a global scale. It is due solely to (1) our (US, UK and Russia's) sense of restraint and (2) The rest of the world's good sense just to sit back and let us handle it ourselves.
Actually, the early Christian church as described in the book of Acts employed total communism; and it worked, at least until the Sanhedrin had them cleaned out of Judea. In fact, the Acts early church is where Karl Marx received a lot of his ideas while writing the Communist Manifesto.
The problem with secular communism is it assumes that the natural state of man is one of goodness, benevolence and self-sacrifice. In the secular world, however, though considered virtues, they are hardly the norm.
As everyone knows, the roleplaying element is the most important part of CS. Voice just reminds me that I'm getting mopped up by 14 year old kids, not the "l33t krew" they purport themselves to be!
As an Augusta native, I can tell you those bridges are the only roads in the whole freaking city that don't have pot holes or construction all over them. I've blown six tires just driving down Walton Way. As for South Carolina... *shiver*
Hrmmm... but Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ (the forerunning compilers at the time, IMO) were both $200 a pop. For a grade-school kid, this was inaccessible.
That's why it took me six years to move up to Pascal. By that time, the longest program I'd written was a top-down Zelda clone that was 20,000 lines long (I've been looking for it, btw)!
Of course, my very first Pascal project was porting the game to Pascal, and I learned a lot in the process, like indentation.
Anyhow, a beginner language should not depend on features, or "correct technique," or even usefulness. The key to a beginner language is: how soon and how easily can they make pretty pictures? I'm telling you, so many CS students today have no passion for what they do because they never, ever had fun with it. For those of us who grew up on QBasic, we know that programming can, in fact, be fun. That's why I spent all my proms at home with QBasic.
For all those folks ranting at WHY someone would want to learn QBasic, I like to consider myself a QBasic "success story."
WAY back when when I got my first computer, DOS was this wierd arcane alter-world from Windows 3.1, I found QBasic. It CAME with my computer. I didn't have the internet, so free, downloadadable compilers were not an option. For me, QBasic was my only link to the programming world.
I never had a book, btw, so all I had to learn BASIC was a vague memory of LET and PRINT commands, and the help file. The help file was awesome. It is, to date, the only good docs I have ever seen from MS. After 6 years, I could do stuff in BASIC that my friends who started out in Pascal and C++ could not dream of doing. Why? Because their learning curve made it impossible.
Before I found QBasic, I wanted to be a writer or a chef or something silly like that. QBasic introduced me into the programming world in which I can now call myself a professional.
So, I'm going to do something right now that, as a Linux user, I thought I would never do...
Thanks, Microsoft.
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Ad hominim, all of it. "You're so stupid, I can't believe you said that" is not a valid argument. You have not properly addressed any of the quoted arguments.
The problem here is that the majority of Muslims (populace, not governments) hate and despise the US.
We tried to be nice. We let Saddam have his merry way for 12 years. We left Osama Bin Laden alone for 10. What did we get? 3000 dead.
So, we learned a lesson. They hate us, and being nice to them does not work. 9/11 happened ANYWAY. Yes, this will not make Muslims like us anymore. They probably hate us EVEN MORE now. But the goal is no longer getting them to like us. The goal now is to make sure their ability to harm us is impaired.
If you're an American, you're deluded. If you're not an American, you have the fortunate luck of not being a target of ethnic and religious hatred.
We, unfortunately, don't have that luxury. So we have to do things differently than you would.
Ummm... isn't this how Linux started? As a matter of fact, isn't this how UNIX started (some university hippy wanted to play with MULTICS)?
Dang dude. Exactly how many Gnome/KDE patches have *you* been submitting to help fight the "Great War" against Microshaft?
The only problem with OSS is anti-Microsoft idealogues who do nothing but criticize the efforts of others. Nobody who really advances Open Source gives a crap about Microsoft or how much market share they have.
I coded in QBasic for 6 years before I learned Pascal, with never an indention. Now that I've moved on to "real, professional" coding in C, C++ and Java, I can't help but look back and notice that the stuff I could do in QBasic was a lot cooler than the stuff I can do in C and Java today.
I'm a worse programmer today, and the worst part is, I can't remember any of it...:(
I couldn't really give a crap whether or not the "article" was slanted. What really makes this worthy of Slashdot is the clear evidence that the "know-not's" out there are hearing about the basic freedoms being taken away from them. So far, the cries of indignance over corporate tyranny of the digital world have been heard from the easily ignored "nerd" circles.
Maybe when John Q. Public learns (via Fox News, and hopefully others soon) that pretty soon he won't even be allowed the fair use of his property he was promised, there will be a out-cry.
Republican? Democrat? Forget the politics; if they're for destroying MY freedoms, they gotta go.
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I now see the need for a (-1, Corny) rating. If this poster were sitting in my living room, I would throw a cheetoh at him for his corniness.
I have heard for years (How many? Almost ten? Might be wrong) that KDE was going to come to a "dead end" because of (inster one: non-GPL, strict-GPL-non-commercial, closed development, pact with the devil, etc.), and that Gnome would eventually dominate due to its keeping with the "true spirit" of the FOSS movement.
I'm still waiting.
Scope and visibility resolution has its own set of complexities and the pitfalls that go with them.
Another added problem is that many languages dynamically allocate variables that are not global as they come into scope. Statically allocated from a design perspective, but dynamic in actual execution. For high-intensity applications this can be a problem.
AFAIK Many video game developers, for whom performance is key, use global variables exclusively. More to keep track of, but less complexity and (every once in a while) better performance.
And this out-dated, out-moded COBOL drivel still gets foisted on first-year CS majors.
...when we're going to get past this dubbing thing and see some subs.
And what was the Cold War? Were the US, UK and USSR just going to hurl nerf balls at each other? Was the Berlin Wall just a big pile of Oktoberfest bieren kegs?
And don't fool yourself into thinking that the UN had anything to do with the Cold War not erupting in open violence on a global scale. It is due solely to (1) our (US, UK and Russia's) sense of restraint and (2) The rest of the world's good sense just to sit back and let us handle it ourselves.
Does this mean it's too late to help smuggle that $3 million out of Nigeria?
Oh, look. Sierra Leone is giving me the same offer. Cool!
Kind of like paying to go to a Trekkie convention and laughing at the guy who has a slide rule in his pocket.
Actually, the early Christian church as described in the book of Acts employed total communism; and it worked, at least until the Sanhedrin had them cleaned out of Judea. In fact, the Acts early church is where Karl Marx received a lot of his ideas while writing the Communist Manifesto.
The problem with secular communism is it assumes that the natural state of man is one of goodness, benevolence and self-sacrifice. In the secular world, however, though considered virtues, they are hardly the norm.
As everyone knows, the roleplaying element is the most important part of CS. Voice just reminds me that I'm getting mopped up by 14 year old kids, not the "l33t krew" they purport themselves to be!
But that implies that SCO's reason for not publically releasing the offending lines of code is bogus.
I call bluff. Nothing was stolen.
...now I'm not even cool compared to other gamers.
Thanks Slashdot, you ruined my day.
As an Augusta native, I can tell you those bridges are the only roads in the whole freaking city that don't have pot holes or construction all over them. I've blown six tires just driving down Walton Way. As for South Carolina... *shiver*
Hrmmm... but Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ (the forerunning compilers at the time, IMO) were both $200 a pop. For a grade-school kid, this was inaccessible.
That's why it took me six years to move up to Pascal. By that time, the longest program I'd written was a top-down Zelda clone that was 20,000 lines long (I've been looking for it, btw)!
Of course, my very first Pascal project was porting the game to Pascal, and I learned a lot in the process, like indentation.
Anyhow, a beginner language should not depend on features, or "correct technique," or even usefulness. The key to a beginner language is: how soon and how easily can they make pretty pictures? I'm telling you, so many CS students today have no passion for what they do because they never, ever had fun with it. For those of us who grew up on QBasic, we know that programming can, in fact, be fun. That's why I spent all my proms at home with QBasic.
For all those folks ranting at WHY someone would want to learn QBasic, I like to consider myself a QBasic "success story."
WAY back when when I got my first computer, DOS was this wierd arcane alter-world from Windows 3.1, I found QBasic. It CAME with my computer. I didn't have the internet, so free, downloadadable compilers were not an option. For me, QBasic was my only link to the programming world.
I never had a book, btw, so all I had to learn BASIC was a vague memory of LET and PRINT commands, and the help file. The help file was awesome. It is, to date, the only good docs I have ever seen from MS. After 6 years, I could do stuff in BASIC that my friends who started out in Pascal and C++ could not dream of doing. Why? Because their learning curve made it impossible.
Before I found QBasic, I wanted to be a writer or a chef or something silly like that. QBasic introduced me into the programming world in which I can now call myself a professional.
So, I'm going to do something right now that, as a Linux user, I thought I would never do...
Thanks, Microsoft.
Ad hominim, all of it. "You're so stupid, I can't believe you said that" is not a valid argument. You have not properly addressed any of the quoted arguments.
The problem here is that the majority of Muslims (populace, not governments) hate and despise the US.
We tried to be nice. We let Saddam have his merry way for 12 years. We left Osama Bin Laden alone for 10. What did we get? 3000 dead.
So, we learned a lesson. They hate us, and being nice to them does not work. 9/11 happened ANYWAY. Yes, this will not make Muslims like us anymore. They probably hate us EVEN MORE now. But the goal is no longer getting them to like us. The goal now is to make sure their ability to harm us is impaired.
If you're an American, you're deluded. If you're not an American, you have the fortunate luck of not being a target of ethnic and religious hatred.
We, unfortunately, don't have that luxury. So we have to do things differently than you would.
...the money I saved by downloaded the "Best of Simon & Garfunkel" I can now contribute to Hezbollah! w00t!
Then again... S&G may be a terrorist act in and of itself... who is to say for sure?
David Boies's firm is trying a new four step litigation process:
1. Sue mega-corp for success where self fails.
2. Present no evidence but swear you would have made ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
3. ???
4. Profit!
Are you thinking of flamingos?
Perhaps the affect of wearing "not-ostrich" colored clothing could become the basis of antoher Ig Noble study?
Ummm... isn't this how Linux started? As a matter of fact, isn't this how UNIX started (some university hippy wanted to play with MULTICS)?
Dang dude. Exactly how many Gnome/KDE patches have *you* been submitting to help fight the "Great War" against Microshaft?
The only problem with OSS is anti-Microsoft idealogues who do nothing but criticize the efforts of others. Nobody who really advances Open Source gives a crap about Microsoft or how much market share they have.
Don't you mean: "Ahboot ten minutes?"
Why not just save time?
[GNU/]+GNU HURD[/HURD]*
Which is your favorite: additive or multiplicative closure?
Wait! It's all right! Battlestar Gallactica's coming to--
Huh? The director did what?
For *what* movie?
NNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I coded in QBasic for 6 years before I learned Pascal, with never an indention. Now that I've moved on to "real, professional" coding in C, C++ and Java, I can't help but look back and notice that the stuff I could do in QBasic was a lot cooler than the stuff I can do in C and Java today.
:(
I'm a worse programmer today, and the worst part is, I can't remember any of it...
I couldn't really give a crap whether or not the "article" was slanted. What really makes this worthy of Slashdot is the clear evidence that the "know-not's" out there are hearing about the basic freedoms being taken away from them. So far, the cries of indignance over corporate tyranny of the digital world have been heard from the easily ignored "nerd" circles.
Maybe when John Q. Public learns (via Fox News, and hopefully others soon) that pretty soon he won't even be allowed the fair use of his property he was promised, there will be a out-cry.
Republican? Democrat? Forget the politics; if they're for destroying MY freedoms, they gotta go.
-- Halivar