To know about the features of Textmode Midnight Commander requires you to have used Linux/Unix.
Mr. TRACK does not know the features of Textmode Midnight Commander.
Therefore Mr. TRACK has never used Linux/Unix?
I don't think that's what they taught in Elementary school, Dr. Watson! Just kidding--I'll check those programs out. As aparently everyone else who uses Linux has.
It's at least possible, though, that more regulation could result in lower costs. Because of network effects, we might be caught in a sort-of local-minima. For example, there might exist a better type of automobile engine that runs on something cheaper than gas, consumers could not adopt it for lack of gas stations converted to the new fuel, while stations would not convert because consumers will still drive their old cars.
If the government steps into this hypothetical world and simply orders everyone to use the new style engine, it would reduce economic costs.
I played it for a couple of days untill I got sick to death of losing my experience, equipment, and pets to server farts. Wander... wander... kill something... wander.... wander... kill something.... get healed... wander...wander...
Didn't you read the story? He said it was a MMORPG! Zing!!;)
I don't think country music listeners are any dumber than the rest of us, anymore than I think people who smoke are any dumber than the rest of us. The only problem I have is with that they're listening to country music/smoking in public!
Wait a minute, mr. TRACK, don't you intentionally look for music that causes other people pain and discomfort? Looks likes it's back to the self-accusation world for me...
One really, really obvious feature that I've never seen is integration of the command line shell and a file manager. A lot of file managers let you open up a file manager view of a directory from the command line (even MS Windows with "start "). Except for a hack I saw once in Windows Explorer, I've never seen the ability to launch a command line shell set to the directory you're currently viewing in the file manager. This feature alone would make me use X windows whenever I had any choice in the matter.
Or even more exciting, If you could have a window that was half-command line, half-file manager, such that when you changed directories in one half, it would change directories in the other?
Those are the four letters you need to see to know Blizzard is in the wrong. For reasons we all know, this law is evil, and the message we need to send to companies is "If you use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, you lose."
I don't care why they want to shut down bnetd, if they can't do it without the DMCA, then I want them to suffer. I am not one to steal games that I play a lot, and I wasn't intending to play Warcraft III in the first place, but now I'm going to do everything I can to make sure anyone who wants to play this game without paying can do so. I will tell all of my game playing friends this: "Warcraft III? Oh, that game sucks, actually, but I've got a copy and a server you can run it on..."
If they are going to use rules that shouldn't exist, we have to break the rules (and them) in retaliation.
Sensible Mac-and-Windows-and-Linux owning hordes: But application/OS support for right-clicks/option-clicks isn't as common as it is on the PC, where everyone is forced to have that second button, therefore developers spend the time to code it.
On the other hand, support for things like secondary-clicks and keyboard shortcuts seems to have improved a lot with 10.1, so maybe my objection is no longer valid...
I said original game boy. The game boy color certainly isn't blurry. Pocket might not be either, never saw it--I'm talking about the huge one that needed 4 AAs.
In any event, if I put Game boy color games in my game boy advance, they look just as if it they were in my game boy color, except that I have the option of stretching it (with the L and R buttons)
So, the game boy advance screen is strictly better that the game boy color screen.
If you think it's the worst screen ever, play the original game boy again. There, now do you remember how blurry it would get whenever the screen scrolls? Now put an original game boy or color game boy cartridge in your GBA. Amazingly visible!
It's not the screen that's the problem: it's only with certain games (Castlevania, Circle of the Moon being the biggest offender).
Too bad I'd much rather see the money spent on domestic R&D then just paid directly to the foreigners....or rather to the foreign dictators who are responsible for the mess to begin with.
However, according to the UK Patent Office, patents are, by nature, vague so such an argument might not prove to be sufficient defence.
Part of BT's patent (see internet links)
"If I patented a flying machine the patent could equally apply to helicopters and aeroplanes even though they are completely different," explains Stephen Probert deputy director of the Patent Office.
"It seems ludicrous that a patent for one technology can cover another but patents are anything but precise and are meant to cover things that aren't yet invented," he says.
I don't know what to say--is this guy insane or is that how patents really work? By inventing the hot-air baloon I also invent the airplane, helicopter and spaceship? Patents are meant to cover things that aren't yet invented?!
SSBM was seriously awesome, but, geez, you must not like/understand the virtues of mario games to call that one stage of side-scrolling mode a Mario game--Mario games are more than just games with Mario, after all.
So unsafe features never work? The user must have SOME way of getting unsafe code to work, or unsafe features wouldn't exist. I'm amazed at those who've used the.NET developer platform but don't understand logic. Oh, wait a minute...
Other riposte: Gee, there's two interpretations of your post, one of which is purely subjective but has nothing to do with C# or word files, the other based on implications one might make from this purely subjective idea into how C#, Java or.doc files should be designed. I guess I'll assume you're not a moron and consider it the latter.
The reciprical of this is what got Yahoo in trouble with France. Sure, Yahoo is an American company, and they could have told the French court to go to hell, but if they did, and then the French court rendered a judgment against them, the French judgment would probably be enforced by an American court.
Besides, even if you were right about this case, Yahoo probably has a real world business presence in France, so analogies between Yahoo and me aren't quite valid.
Originally, you said that adding CLS to VB made it cleaner and nicer. It's simply not logical to talk about the availability of libraries as making things cleaner.
If your college gave you the impression that functional programming was pretty much dead, that would be a failing of your education, not of any paradigm. Personally, I blame the OO paradigm for how broken and nonsensical all software engineering is--lacking a language with formalism sufficient to assure quality software, they instead try to enforce mathematical formalism on documentation and social relations between programmers. I don't like mult. inheritance either, but I don't need Microsoft to make the decision for the entire development community whether to use it or not.
That all being said, having looked more at the CLS, apparently it won't be a problem using different language paradigms inside it--but I'm still anxious to see how linking all of these languages together is going to work--if I write code in my favorite language "X" that does things C# doesn't do (like accept functions as first-class values or multiple inheritance or whatever), how the heck is a C# program supposed to use my "X" program as a library?
I'm absolutely certain they won't get BETTER. I didn't say they would be worse. Some languages are well thought out to begin with, not just thrown together like VB so that imposing any kind of object orientation on them at all is an improvement. There's a lot of different ways to object orientation (C++/Eiffel multiple inheritance vs. Java/C# single vs. Smalltalk/Objective-C dynamically typed) so assuming the Java/C# model is going to mess everyone else up, as the ironically pro-CLS Eiffel article de icaza links to highlights ("hey this CLS thing is great! It's object oriented bytecode! now if only they did object orientation Eiffel-style I would love it!"). And nuts to you if you actually use a language that (gasp!) isn't object oriented! Functional programming? Logic programming? Get with the times man!
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Mr. TRACK does not know the features of Textmode Midnight Commander.
Therefore Mr. TRACK has never used Linux/Unix?
I don't think that's what they taught in Elementary school, Dr. Watson! Just kidding--I'll check those programs out. As aparently everyone else who uses Linux has.
If the government steps into this hypothetical world and simply orders everyone to use the new style engine, it would reduce economic costs.
Didn't you read the story? He said it was a MMORPG! Zing!! ;)
Ummm, no.
You see the X-Men have funding . . .
Where do the X-Men get funding? Adventure capitalists?
Man, if someone else said what I just said, I'd sure have to punch 'em!
I don't think country music listeners are any dumber than the rest of us, anymore than I think people who smoke are any dumber than the rest of us. The only problem I have is with that they're listening to country music/smoking in public!
Wait a minute, mr. TRACK, don't you intentionally look for music that causes other people pain and discomfort? Looks likes it's back to the self-accusation world for me...
I thought it was really weird that no one would do such a thing--now I know why, they DID, they just hid it from me--IN PLAIN SIGHT! ;)
One really, really obvious feature that I've never seen is integration of the command line shell and a file manager. A lot of file managers let you open up a file manager view of a directory from the command line (even MS Windows with "start "). Except for a hack I saw once in Windows Explorer, I've never seen the ability to launch a command line shell set to the directory you're currently viewing in the file manager. This feature alone would make me use X windows whenever I had any choice in the matter.
Or even more exciting, If you could have a window that was half-command line, half-file manager, such that when you changed directories in one half, it would change directories in the other?
I don't care why they want to shut down bnetd, if they can't do it without the DMCA, then I want them to suffer. I am not one to steal games that I play a lot, and I wasn't intending to play Warcraft III in the first place, but now I'm going to do everything I can to make sure anyone who wants to play this game without paying can do so. I will tell all of my game playing friends this: "Warcraft III? Oh, that game sucks, actually, but I've got a copy and a server you can run it on..."
If they are going to use rules that shouldn't exist, we have to break the rules (and them) in retaliation.
Sensible Mac-and-Windows-and-Linux owning hordes: But application/OS support for right-clicks/option-clicks isn't as common as it is on the PC, where everyone is forced to have that second button, therefore developers spend the time to code it.
On the other hand, support for things like secondary-clicks and keyboard shortcuts seems to have improved a lot with 10.1, so maybe my objection is no longer valid...
So why did Nippon get .jp?
In any event, if I put Game boy color games in my game boy advance, they look just as if it they were in my game boy color, except that I have the option of stretching it (with the L and R buttons)
So, the game boy advance screen is strictly better that the game boy color screen.
It's not the screen that's the problem: it's only with certain games (Castlevania, Circle of the Moon being the biggest offender).
Too bad I'd much rather see the money spent on domestic R&D then just paid directly to the foreigners....or rather to the foreign dictators who are responsible for the mess to begin with.
It's RIGHT beside Washington D.C.
However, according to the UK Patent Office, patents are, by nature, vague so such an argument might not prove to be sufficient defence.
Part of BT's patent (see internet links) "If I patented a flying machine the patent could equally apply to helicopters and aeroplanes even though they are completely different," explains Stephen Probert deputy director of the Patent Office.
"It seems ludicrous that a patent for one technology can cover another but patents are anything but precise and are meant to cover things that aren't yet invented," he says.
I don't know what to say--is this guy insane or is that how patents really work? By inventing the hot-air baloon I also invent the airplane, helicopter and spaceship? Patents are meant to cover things that aren't yet invented?!
Camp X-Ray!!!!!
SSBM was seriously awesome, but, geez, you must not like/understand the virtues of mario games to call that one stage of side-scrolling mode a Mario game--Mario games are more than just games with Mario, after all.
As they say, "Intellectual Property is what you keep to yourself."
So unsafe features never work? The user must have SOME way of getting unsafe code to work, or unsafe features wouldn't exist. I'm amazed at those who've used the .NET developer platform but don't understand logic. Oh, wait a minute...
Other riposte: Gee, there's two interpretations of your post, one of which is purely subjective but has nothing to do with C# or word files, the other based on implications one might make from this purely subjective idea into how C#, Java or .doc files should be designed. I guess I'll assume you're not a moron and consider it the latter.
Now the whoops is mine--the first paragraph is a quote.
Whoops.
Besides, even if you were right about this case, Yahoo probably has a real world business presence in France, so analogies between Yahoo and me aren't quite valid.
Yah who wouldn't be aware of that! EVERYONE KNOWS!
If your college gave you the impression that functional programming was pretty much dead, that would be a failing of your education, not of any paradigm. Personally, I blame the OO paradigm for how broken and nonsensical all software engineering is--lacking a language with formalism sufficient to assure quality software, they instead try to enforce mathematical formalism on documentation and social relations between programmers. I don't like mult. inheritance either, but I don't need Microsoft to make the decision for the entire development community whether to use it or not.
That all being said, having looked more at the CLS, apparently it won't be a problem using different language paradigms inside it--but I'm still anxious to see how linking all of these languages together is going to work--if I write code in my favorite language "X" that does things C# doesn't do (like accept functions as first-class values or multiple inheritance or whatever), how the heck is a C# program supposed to use my "X" program as a library?
I'm absolutely certain they won't get BETTER. I didn't say they would be worse. Some languages are well thought out to begin with, not just thrown together like VB so that imposing any kind of object orientation on them at all is an improvement. There's a lot of different ways to object orientation (C++/Eiffel multiple inheritance vs. Java/C# single vs. Smalltalk/Objective-C dynamically typed) so assuming the Java/C# model is going to mess everyone else up, as the ironically pro-CLS Eiffel article de icaza links to highlights ("hey this CLS thing is great! It's object oriented bytecode! now if only they did object orientation Eiffel-style I would love it!"). And nuts to you if you actually use a language that (gasp!) isn't object oriented! Functional programming? Logic programming? Get with the times man!