No, Windows could be free and OSS wouldn't be dead by a long shot.
If Windows were free and provided a solid server platform, then perhaps OSS would shrink in usage. Nevertheless, there's always going to be the diehards. Oh, and that won't happen anyway.
is that most women simply aren't intersted in IT. It's pretty obvious to me. How many of you found it beneficial to expound on the virtues of open source software or the beauty of TCP/IP structure during a date? Probably not many.
That's not to say that they can't be good at it, though. It seems that women will study harder and get better grades, but its gonna be guys hanging out after class discussing the stuff in the pub because they have a genuine interest. Just my two cents.
know the differences between most major licenses, and they know that not everything that runs under Linux is GPL'ed.
Must agree, though, that there needs to be a larger demand than under proprietary OS'es, especially when there is so much that is free for Linux. I myself, bought a copy of the commercial version of Tuxracer for Linux. So I guess "here" is the answer to where are people like that.
I agree with you; but you've got to admit that an integrated desktop is at least one of the most difficult tasks facing Linux.
High quality server software, individual apps, even Office suites, are much more doable within open source because their scope is limited and deep; the integral unit of these things is tangible--one application, one server, one project with defined limitations.
A desktop environment, on the other hand, must span across the surface of everything in order to integrate all aspects of a user experience. This is difficult in Linux because they guys who make everything don't work together, and you have third party developers like Redhat who get stuck with the somewhat unnatural responsibility of binding everything together to make it look natural.
I'm sure you already know this, but I'm just pointing out that while I agree it can be done, I can see the source of other people's skepticism.
Abstractness in PL's is always the simplification of powerful extant patterns of current programming, for example, Object-Oriented programming was already highly in use in systems such as windowing environments long before languages like Java and C++ incorporated it into their grammar. Polymorphism, templates, etc. also follow this paradigm.
So as long as there are powerful programming systems in use that are not already part of a language, PL's are bound to become more and more abstract. Of course the abstractions of these systems will tend to bloat programs and may inhibit low-level control; so, PL's capable of low-level optimization (akin to C) will always remain when performance is a requisite.
In keeping with the history of PL's, we will see the evolving languages charging ahead while their compilers try to keep pace: leaving their lower-level predecessors behind to tend to more obscure and specialized tasks.
is going on here. That photo on the main page this article links to is the same one that George Ziemann has on his site from the Ebay Vs. Musician article earlier.
I don't see any indication that this is supposed to be his server room. So who's lying?
I think it's great that the article mentions that "Search King" was founded "approximately a year before Google's inception", even though this information is irrelevant.
You can practically hear the guy whining, "I was here first, waahhh. ..I wanna be popular too!"
Latin, besides being damn cool, IS important. The simply ability to trace words back to their origins (even though English isn't a romance language) makes you understand your own language much better.
Since chat room speak is on the rise in more formal settings, I think a focus on the core of our language will help stem such idiocy. Not to mention the portability of its vocabulary and concepts such as declensions and noun gender into other languages.
Maybe you want more, but what you described (automating jobs) can be done with cron jobs and shell/perl scripts. Don't buy a horse from the next town over when you've already got one in the barn.
That's true, Metacity is the default. However Metacity (if you can believe it) has even fewer options than Sawfish. Custom shell command keybindings, for instance, do not exist.
But Gnome, too. I was very frustrated that the new version of Sawfish has the "new feature" of removed functionality. You cannot use viewports, and edge-flipping is therefore impossible by default.
Rather than try to LISP my way out of this cage, I actually put Enlightenment on there, and despite its ancient state, it's serving me much better than the optionless Sawfish. Gnome2 in general, while it is very sleek and anti-aliased, seems to have fewer options than it ought to; and in some cases, fewer than it already had in the past.
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No, Windows could be free and OSS wouldn't be dead by a long shot.
If Windows were free and provided a solid server platform, then perhaps OSS would shrink in usage. Nevertheless, there's always going to be the diehards. Oh, and that won't happen anyway.
is that most women simply aren't intersted in IT. It's pretty obvious to me. How many of you found it beneficial to expound on the virtues of open source software or the beauty of TCP/IP structure during a date? Probably not many.
That's not to say that they can't be good at it, though. It seems that women will study harder and get better grades, but its gonna be guys hanging out after class discussing the stuff in the pub because they have a genuine interest. Just my two cents.
Are you sure that the idea of a clinically obese person trying to get to a candy store isn't humor?
Are those the kind that come out of hot chicks' boobs in Austin Powers?
know the differences between most major licenses, and they know that not everything that runs under Linux is GPL'ed.
Must agree, though, that there needs to be a larger demand than under proprietary OS'es, especially when there is so much that is free for Linux. I myself, bought a copy of the commercial version of Tuxracer for Linux. So I guess "here" is the answer to where are people like that.
Wow, this is great! That's because the office is, of course, the best place in the world to oggle porn. Yeah.
So now instead of seeing the embarrassing sites you're visiting, your boss will only notice more frequent hand...er...mouse gestures.
I agree with you; but you've got to admit that an integrated desktop is at least one of the most difficult tasks facing Linux.
High quality server software, individual apps, even Office suites, are much more doable within open source because their scope is limited and deep; the integral unit of these things is tangible--one application, one server, one project with defined limitations.
A desktop environment, on the other hand, must span across the surface of everything in order to integrate all aspects of a user experience. This is difficult in Linux because they guys who make everything don't work together, and you have third party developers like Redhat who get stuck with the somewhat unnatural responsibility of binding everything together to make it look natural.
I'm sure you already know this, but I'm just pointing out that while I agree it can be done, I can see the source of other people's skepticism.
Wow, I've got thirty moderator points on brak! Let's move on over!
There's one obvious benefit (depending on your architecture/manufacturer) with running 4 instead of 2: if one blows out, you aren't fried.
Abstractness in PL's is always the simplification of powerful extant patterns of current programming, for example, Object-Oriented programming was already highly in use in systems such as windowing environments long before languages like Java and C++ incorporated it into their grammar. Polymorphism, templates, etc. also follow this paradigm.
So as long as there are powerful programming systems in use that are not already part of a language, PL's are bound to become more and more abstract. Of course the abstractions of these systems will tend to bloat programs and may inhibit low-level control; so, PL's capable of low-level optimization (akin to C) will always remain when performance is a requisite.
In keeping with the history of PL's, we will see the evolving languages charging ahead while their compilers try to keep pace: leaving their lower-level predecessors behind to tend to more obscure and specialized tasks.
Breaking news every 200-400 million years!!
is going on here. That photo on the main page this article links to is the same one that George Ziemann has on his site from the Ebay Vs. Musician article earlier.
I don't see any indication that this is supposed to be his server room. So who's lying?
is not like the other?
Is it just me, or does anti-abortion stick out as being rather unlike pro-nazism and anti-semetism?
I hope that the sites in question were militant anti-abortion sites--otherwise this is the most illogical grouping I've seen in a long time.
do people seriously have that much time??? And where can I get some?
No excuses now; surely your sexual frustrations can't be a result time constraints.
Ah yes, just what I was lacking. Hollywood fiber-optic gossip and token rings of the rich and famous.
And which internet do you know of that you can call a place? And wow, where is it?!
step 1: iptables -P INPUT DROP
step 2: iptables -A INPUT -p all -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
step 3: iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
I think it's great that the article mentions that "Search King" was founded "approximately a year before Google's inception", even though this information is irrelevant.
.I wanna be popular too!"
You can practically hear the guy whining, "I was here first, waahhh. .
Imagine the IP laws regarding a briefcase full of thousands of people's intellects.
Latin, besides being damn cool, IS important. The simply ability to trace words back to their origins (even though English isn't a romance language) makes you understand your own language much better.
Since chat room speak is on the rise in more formal settings, I think a focus on the core of our language will help stem such idiocy. Not to mention the portability of its vocabulary and concepts such as declensions and noun gender into other languages.
Yeah, that's a bit unsettling; but hey, Einstein didn't wear socks, never used shaving cream, and forgot his own address.
.yup, using AOL is still worse.
Hmmm. .
Maybe you want more, but what you described (automating jobs) can be done with cron jobs and shell/perl scripts.
Don't buy a horse from the next town over when you've already got one in the barn.
That's true, Metacity is the default. However Metacity (if you can believe it) has even fewer options than Sawfish. Custom shell command keybindings, for instance, do not exist.
But Gnome, too. I was very frustrated that the new version of Sawfish has the "new feature" of removed functionality. You cannot use viewports, and edge-flipping is therefore impossible by default.
Rather than try to LISP my way out of this cage, I actually put Enlightenment on there, and despite its ancient state, it's serving me much better than the optionless Sawfish. Gnome2 in general, while it is very sleek and anti-aliased, seems to have fewer options than it ought to; and in some cases, fewer than it already had in the past.
That's right, because as we all know, all vegetable life, such as dandelions and asparagus, regenerate in bouts of wild, passionate sex. Yikes.