Yes, I own Metamagical Themas. Great stuff. I really like Hofstadter too. Reading GEB in high school probably changed my life, in some way.
As for Penrose, I agree about his conclusions. His hypothesis that we have "microtubules" in our brains that have quantum effects has never been demonstrated. However, his discussion of the entire thing is pretty cool and worth reading. Well, I thought so, anyway.
That's what mathematician Roger Penrose thinks also, in case you weren't aware. You may want to read his book "The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind".
Actually, Canada and Australia are two of the top three biggest uranium producers, and for the US to be dependent upon them for uranium is no big deal. "Foreign dependence" is a code phrase for "dependence upon dictatorships with medieval beliefs about religion and society". Canada is already the biggest source of oil for the US.
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He's talking about how the local X server defaults to Unix domain sockets for transport, which are indeed implemented with shared memory.
I would love to switch back to Mail, but it lacks GPG integration. I know there's a hack to support it, but weird bugs kept happening. Does Leopard's Mail.app support GPG? I'm still on Tiger.
Because a lot of Google people love Unix, and the Mac is the best desktop Unix environment. That's why.
And do you think Google are so penny-pinchingly cheap that the massive boost in developer productivity they get from using Macs isn't worth the small extra cost over a system running Windows or Linux? Give me a break. What are they spending, maybe $50 000 extra total for the Macs? Google earns that in probably around 5 seconds.
twitter, you work at a university (LSU). You have no idea what businesses use and what they pay for Windows and Office. You also have no idea of the number of massive deployments or the conservative nature of large corps. Going on Slashdot and making broad, ridiculous claims and insulting people who actually know what they're talking about isn't going to convince anyone.
You raise an excellent point, and that's probably the main reason their stock has remained flat for the past while. You basically have a value stock in the hands of a management that can't let go of their growth past. My guess is their dividend payments will increase significantly.
They take technology that exists in lots of other places, and put it in a prettier package. OSX is nice, but it's BSD with pretty graphics. No, it's not. You should consider learning about software technology sometime.
Haha, I can't believe this kooky bullshit got modded up. Note to mods: the link is to a crackpot site where the author, who is not a physicist or a mathematician, provides "proofs" showing Einstein was wrong, modern physics is wrong, etc.
The article did mention some things along those lines, such as books (!) that compiled the best threads. I imagine there are sites to do the same thing, although as you suggested, it would be more interesting if the "best" threads were judged as such by users.
You're being deliberately obtuse. You can complain all you want, but don't call yourself a "victim" - you render the term meaningless and no one will take you seriously. Victims tend to realise they are such - if you strolled up to the typical Skype user and said, "You are a VICTIM! Look how unfortunate you are!", they'd think you were crazy. And they'd be right.
And I do have a wonderful life, thanks very much. I'm sorry yours sucks though.
I use it every day in my business - works great. But now my happiness is tainted by my victimhood. Perhaps spending some of those thousands of dollars I've saved on phone calls will make me feel better though.
In other words: get some perspective. People who get raped or murdered are victims. People who use proprietary application software run the spectrum from happy users to suckers, but that's about it.
He understands it perfectly well, and from many developers' perspectives, it makes the GPL cripplingly unfree. I personally don't feel that way, but a lot of people do.
Anyway, it doesn't matter, as every single day people roll fully GPL'd code into proprietary products with none the wiser. I've seen it happen many, many times. Licenses aren't really given a whole lot of respect in the software development world, particularly in the non-West. I'm sure most of the free software keeners on Slashdot would be appalled at how blatant and common this is.
Too bad you posted as AC, since your comment is a good one. I'd also like to add that when Chinese management says "Yes, we can do that," it means nothing except that they've saved face in case they fail.
Maybe that's why he chose to study kernels? Their requirements are well-known and pretty much the same regardless of implementation. But generally speaking, I agree with you 100%.
VS is great, don't get me wrong. I meant sort of in general, beyond just MS development, then the free/open tools are really good. Of course, I am using IDEA at the moment, which is not open, so I guess I'm not exactly practising what I preach.
Well, not necessarily. Perhaps for certain types of commodity applications, like office suites, but even then, it's tough to say. That's why I was interested in the comparison. Your assertion is certainly not true for games, for example.
Generally speaking, commercial desktop apps are still way ahead of their open counterparts, with the exception of code development tools and anything that directly implements a standard (browsers, mail clients, etc.)
One reason for this is that code quality as measured in this study may not directly relate to application quality as measured by the typical user. Photoshop is "good" not least because of its well-understood interface and the fact that everyone uses it, regardless of how admirable the code is.
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They are talking about their servers, where the real crunching and "magic" takes place, not the desktops.
Yes, I own Metamagical Themas. Great stuff. I really like Hofstadter too. Reading GEB in high school probably changed my life, in some way.
As for Penrose, I agree about his conclusions. His hypothesis that we have "microtubules" in our brains that have quantum effects has never been demonstrated. However, his discussion of the entire thing is pretty cool and worth reading. Well, I thought so, anyway.
That's what mathematician Roger Penrose thinks also, in case you weren't aware. You may want to read his book "The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind".
Actually, Canada and Australia are two of the top three biggest uranium producers, and for the US to be dependent upon them for uranium is no big deal. "Foreign dependence" is a code phrase for "dependence upon dictatorships with medieval beliefs about religion and society". Canada is already the biggest source of oil for the US.
He's talking about how the local X server defaults to Unix domain sockets for transport, which are indeed implemented with shared memory.
I would love to switch back to Mail, but it lacks GPG integration. I know there's a hack to support it, but weird bugs kept happening. Does Leopard's Mail.app support GPG? I'm still on Tiger.
I know people who send upward of 50 text messages a day. Not kidding. And lots of people easily - EASILY - go way over 1000 daytime minutes a month.
Because a lot of Google people love Unix, and the Mac is the best desktop Unix environment. That's why.
And do you think Google are so penny-pinchingly cheap that the massive boost in developer productivity they get from using Macs isn't worth the small extra cost over a system running Windows or Linux? Give me a break. What are they spending, maybe $50 000 extra total for the Macs? Google earns that in probably around 5 seconds.
twitter, you work at a university (LSU). You have no idea what businesses use and what they pay for Windows and Office. You also have no idea of the number of massive deployments or the conservative nature of large corps. Going on Slashdot and making broad, ridiculous claims and insulting people who actually know what they're talking about isn't going to convince anyone.
You raise an excellent point, and that's probably the main reason their stock has remained flat for the past while. You basically have a value stock in the hands of a management that can't let go of their growth past. My guess is their dividend payments will increase significantly.
That's good, I'm glad I was of help. Once you've learned some operating systems fundamentals, I recommend reading "Mac OS X Internals" by Amit Singh.
They take technology that exists in lots of other places, and put it in a prettier package. OSX is nice, but it's BSD with pretty graphics. No, it's not. You should consider learning about software technology sometime.
I think I'll pay a visit to my bananologer and see what my love life holds based on these old peels of mine.
Haha, I can't believe this kooky bullshit got modded up. Note to mods: the link is to a crackpot site where the author, who is not a physicist or a mathematician, provides "proofs" showing Einstein was wrong, modern physics is wrong, etc.
Do you honestly think Debian is even on Cisco's radar? Think again.
The article did mention some things along those lines, such as books (!) that compiled the best threads. I imagine there are sites to do the same thing, although as you suggested, it would be more interesting if the "best" threads were judged as such by users.
You're being deliberately obtuse. You can complain all you want, but don't call yourself a "victim" - you render the term meaningless and no one will take you seriously. Victims tend to realise they are such - if you strolled up to the typical Skype user and said, "You are a VICTIM! Look how unfortunate you are!", they'd think you were crazy. And they'd be right.
And I do have a wonderful life, thanks very much. I'm sorry yours sucks though.
I use it every day in my business - works great. But now my happiness is tainted by my victimhood. Perhaps spending some of those thousands of dollars I've saved on phone calls will make me feel better though.
In other words: get some perspective. People who get raped or murdered are victims. People who use proprietary application software run the spectrum from happy users to suckers, but that's about it.
He understands it perfectly well, and from many developers' perspectives, it makes the GPL cripplingly unfree. I personally don't feel that way, but a lot of people do.
Anyway, it doesn't matter, as every single day people roll fully GPL'd code into proprietary products with none the wiser. I've seen it happen many, many times. Licenses aren't really given a whole lot of respect in the software development world, particularly in the non-West. I'm sure most of the free software keeners on Slashdot would be appalled at how blatant and common this is.
So I'm being victimised by my copy of Skype, one of the most useful apps on my computer? I had no idea.
Uh-oh, Parallels is over there leering at me - help, help, I'm being oppressed!
Too bad you posted as AC, since your comment is a good one. I'd also like to add that when Chinese management says "Yes, we can do that," it means nothing except that they've saved face in case they fail.
Maybe that's why he chose to study kernels? Their requirements are well-known and pretty much the same regardless of implementation. But generally speaking, I agree with you 100%.
VS is great, don't get me wrong. I meant sort of in general, beyond just MS development, then the free/open tools are really good. Of course, I am using IDEA at the moment, which is not open, so I guess I'm not exactly practising what I preach.
Well, not necessarily. Perhaps for certain types of commodity applications, like office suites, but even then, it's tough to say. That's why I was interested in the comparison. Your assertion is certainly not true for games, for example.
Generally speaking, commercial desktop apps are still way ahead of their open counterparts, with the exception of code development tools and anything that directly implements a standard (browsers, mail clients, etc.)
One reason for this is that code quality as measured in this study may not directly relate to application quality as measured by the typical user. Photoshop is "good" not least because of its well-understood interface and the fact that everyone uses it, regardless of how admirable the code is.