A sphynx is a type of hairless cat from North America. The correct spelling for the Egyptian thing is Sphinx. It's even spelled correctly in the linked-to article!
Well, in all fairness, maybe he simply wanted to have the contents of the directory in an array, regardless of the language used? After all, all languages give you the ability to do things in a silly or inefficient manner. Some just look worse than others while doing it;)
Well, I recently spent five weeks in the eastern California desert in a town with no used book stores, or new book stores for that matter. When I ran out of books to read, I got pretty bored. I would have killed for an e-book reader. Oh yeah, no internet connection either except when I went to the coffee shop.
Fast breeder reactors produce very little waste, but are sadly illegal in the US. France produces 80% of its power via nuclear, and you never hear about waste issues because of their implementation of breeder reactors.
While all of the energy-generation techniques you mentioned are viable for certain areas subject to geographical constraints, only nuclear is capable of large-scale power generation on a global scale. China and India alone have billions of people - you cannot build enough dams or windmills to power those nations cleanly.
It's not so much fixing as improving. QT4 (which the KDE team doesn't have much involvement with) TrollTech employs core KDE devs, and many other contributors submit code. Plus, parts of Qt4 will be hosted in KDE repositories. There is a lot of interaction between KDE and TrollTech, far more than you seem to think.
The key is "as long as it's in the repository". Unfortunately, the great majority of useful desktop software used in business, etc. is not, although that's simply because it doesn't exist. If commercial desktop apps ever do hit Linux, then the install problem will rear its ugly head in the worst of ways.
I am a longtime Linux user and contributor, so I'm not bashing it, and you don't need to explain how Linux repositories work as I use them all the time. But there are certain huge advantages to being able to buy something online, download it, and install it, without worrying about breakage. This is the main reason so many of us abandoned Linux as a desktop and moved to OS X.
Finally, your original post said "Linux", not "Ubuntu". The point and click installation you're talking about does not exist with most distributions, unless you install something like Synaptic (ugh) first.
Far better than the BSD ports system, as found in MacPorts? How so?
If you're talking commercial software, then it's a click on the installer, and you drag the app bundle into Applications. When you want to get rid of it, you drag it to the trash.
Either way, it meets or beats my Gentoo laptop cold. Sorry.
1. Really? Can you name some high-traffic sites where it's in use? I wasn't aware of this.
2. Yes, it does have more momentum, and my original post asked why, in case you didn't read it.
3. Django doesn't emulate Rails, as you imply. It's been around for years and is quite distinctively different. There are some good Django vs. Rails comparisons online if you want to read up on it, since you don't seem to know much about it.
Yeah, it's not so much a language thing either - yes, Ruby is slow, but Django also has sophisticated caching support, for example, which is a framework design issue that is language agnostic. I just think the framework itself, all talk of language aside, is really well designed. I like how you define your db scheme in Python (of course, it's possible to introspect an existing db to create the Python model classes as well), the loose coupling of urls, and so forth. The whole thing feels very practical and geared towards real-world usage.
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That's why I'm curious as to why Django (Python framework) doesn't get more press. It's fast and, unlike Rails, it's been proven to scale (ie washingtonpost.com). The languages have more similarities than differences, so it can't be that. Better marketing/hype, maybe?
I don't think a lot of good developers hang out there, to be honest, as the rates are hilariously terrible. Right now, there is a guy who wants a clone of the iTunes store. The maximum bid accepted: $300.
Strange, I only get two hits "Newton Tomasian", and they are both Biblical sites. So I'd say this is not a real person.
Anyway, why would a "scientist for the Atomic Energy Commission" know anything about biological evolution, or biological processes in general? Your whole post is idiotic.
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A sphynx is a type of hairless cat from North America. The correct spelling for the Egyptian thing is Sphinx. It's even spelled correctly in the linked-to article!
Well, in all fairness, maybe he simply wanted to have the contents of the directory in an array, regardless of the language used? After all, all languages give you the ability to do things in a silly or inefficient manner. Some just look worse than others while doing it ;)
The NSA have an OS X hardening guide you may be interested in: http://www.nsa.gov/notices/notic00004.cfm?Address=/snac/os/applemac/I731-006R-2007.pdf
Right, thanks very much for the link.
Apologies for the possibly stupid question, but how are you booting OS X on an HP laptop?
Well, I recently spent five weeks in the eastern California desert in a town with no used book stores, or new book stores for that matter. When I ran out of books to read, I got pretty bored. I would have killed for an e-book reader. Oh yeah, no internet connection either except when I went to the coffee shop.
Fast breeder reactors produce very little waste, but are sadly illegal in the US. France produces 80% of its power via nuclear, and you never hear about waste issues because of their implementation of breeder reactors.
While all of the energy-generation techniques you mentioned are viable for certain areas subject to geographical constraints, only nuclear is capable of large-scale power generation on a global scale. China and India alone have billions of people - you cannot build enough dams or windmills to power those nations cleanly.
He restarted a single process on the Solaris box once a month. He didn't say he rebooted the whole thing.
You go and try to recompile an abandoned KDE 1.0 app on a KDE4 system and watch what happens. Hey presto!
The key is "as long as it's in the repository". Unfortunately, the great majority of useful desktop software used in business, etc. is not, although that's simply because it doesn't exist. If commercial desktop apps ever do hit Linux, then the install problem will rear its ugly head in the worst of ways.
I am a longtime Linux user and contributor, so I'm not bashing it, and you don't need to explain how Linux repositories work as I use them all the time. But there are certain huge advantages to being able to buy something online, download it, and install it, without worrying about breakage. This is the main reason so many of us abandoned Linux as a desktop and moved to OS X.
Finally, your original post said "Linux", not "Ubuntu". The point and click installation you're talking about does not exist with most distributions, unless you install something like Synaptic (ugh) first.
Try running a KDE 1.0 app and see how far you get. I am a big KDE proponent, but no one does backwards compat like MS.
Far better than the BSD ports system, as found in MacPorts? How so?
If you're talking commercial software, then it's a click on the installer, and you drag the app bundle into Applications. When you want to get rid of it, you drag it to the trash.
Either way, it meets or beats my Gentoo laptop cold. Sorry.
Once KDE4 is released and the Mac ports are finished, then you will have them :)
1. Really? Can you name some high-traffic sites where it's in use? I wasn't aware of this.
2. Yes, it does have more momentum, and my original post asked why, in case you didn't read it.
3. Django doesn't emulate Rails, as you imply. It's been around for years and is quite distinctively different. There are some good Django vs. Rails comparisons online if you want to read up on it, since you don't seem to know much about it.
Yeah, it's not so much a language thing either - yes, Ruby is slow, but Django also has sophisticated caching support, for example, which is a framework design issue that is language agnostic. I just think the framework itself, all talk of language aside, is really well designed. I like how you define your db scheme in Python (of course, it's possible to introspect an existing db to create the Python model classes as well), the loose coupling of urls, and so forth. The whole thing feels very practical and geared towards real-world usage.
That's why I'm curious as to why Django (Python framework) doesn't get more press. It's fast and, unlike Rails, it's been proven to scale (ie washingtonpost.com). The languages have more similarities than differences, so it can't be that. Better marketing/hype, maybe?
Right, well that's fair enough then.
Wasn't that a warm restart? Damn you!
Hopefully you aren't suggesting the results be suppressed in order to facilitate people's sense of responsibility.
Yeah, yeah, okay. Or even a 6502 (weren't they hardwired also?)
Ah yes, fond memories of a classic Slashdot beatdown.
a.out gets executed by microcode. In that sense, machine code is "read" like a script. Really, it's just turtles all the way down.
I don't think a lot of good developers hang out there, to be honest, as the rates are hilariously terrible. Right now, there is a guy who wants a clone of the iTunes store. The maximum bid accepted: $300.
Strange, I only get two hits "Newton Tomasian", and they are both Biblical sites. So I'd say this is not a real person.
Anyway, why would a "scientist for the Atomic Energy Commission" know anything about biological evolution, or biological processes in general? Your whole post is idiotic.