Even for SCO to respond with anything less than an emphatic denial is enough for them to deserve having their tires slashed, their houses graffiti'd and roadkill posted through their letter boxes. And for people to sit in vans outside their corporate HQ with jury-rigged gadgets blasting radio white noise at all the CPUs therein.
And with 10,000 of those defined in your code, that's 10,000 instances of slightly-relabled Object to be constructed at startup and sit in RAM afterward, doing diddly-squat. A "public static final int CONST_FOO = 1" type definition meanwhile occupies precisely 4 bytes of space and takes no time to initialize.
Remember, even bare Object instances have behavior. You can wait on them, notify them, get their hashcode, etc etc... they are not negligible.
Real debugging uses (1) printf calls to trace execution path, dump variables, and detect the crash point down to the nearest few lines (2) eyeballs and brain to spot the goof now its position is locked down. Debuggers are just for the wierdass bugs, and mostly they break differently in those cases anyway, because they're singlestepping not running full tilt.
A good debugger for those cases whern one's needed is DDD.
Look and feel and expected behavior and interoperability are the point.
Ever tried to use an app that emulates your OS's native widgets with skins? It doesn't look right, it ignores global color and font settings, it ignores UI guidelines, it behaves differently when you drag the scrollbars, it uses its own oddball keystroke commands, you can't drag-n-drop to or from it... bleh.
Ah yes, the obligatory politcally correct "global ecological catastrophe", which in this case drives humans off the planet into space.
Hmm, come again, it drives the most resourceful species in known existence off a planet, and into space - which has no ecology, period, and is the most hostile location yet known (outside of volcanoes or the deep ocean)? Scared of ice and smog, one retreats into a radiation saturated desert of hard vacuum?
Eco hippies are so clueless sometimes.
And even this whole "unable to survive their own pollution" thing is BS. Walk outside and smell the air. 19th century london pea-souper it is not. The environment is getting better, not worse. And even if it were not... We are the only species that lives in the cold core of antartica. We are the only species that has an outpost in orbit. And yet a tad of funky air is supposed to scare us off the planet? Hah, don't make me laugh.
I suppose it's a cheap way of wishing humans out of the picture, but they could at least have invented something original.
I mean, take a look at this for example. Ouch. I mean, perl can be bad, C can get hairy, but sheesh. As far as hairy goes this is chewbacca overdosed on rogaine.
If you get a chemistry set, expect intrusions from nosy and thuggish bastards in ninja suits, who are operating on the assumption that you are making drugs, of which for some daft reason they disapprove.
JSP: overkill, mangle code into HTML and vice versa.
Webmacro: bloody unreadable.
Tea: vastly overkill, a whole new language.
XMLC: overkill in most cases, who wants to have to manipulate the DOM of a parsed page to set a few template variables?
Velocity: plenty good, but it isn't that portable, and it stll looks kinda ugly. All those ### make it impossible to edit templates in GUI webpage editors.
XSLT: ouch!
HTML template hits the spot. Simple, no business logic mangled into the page, can be XML-ly correct, and it's even portable between perl and java.
It most certainly is! At least in a capitalist economy. People vote with their wallets.
No, you miss the Very Important Difference.
- In democracy, everyone votes and then the bunch of politicians with the highest poll result get to forcibly impose their ideas on everyone else, expressly including the people who did not vote for them.
- Compared to business where a vast majority wanting X in no way prevents one from selling competitor Y, provided there are enough interested customers to turn a profit. Even if that's only one or two people.
There is also "cooperative multitasking" where the app must explicitly call yield() to hand over control. Effectively single tasking with hidden, rapid task switching. The disadvantages are pretty obvious - no suitability for SMP, and it can wedge solid or hog the CPU, but it also has advantages eg: in cases where you're running a semi-realtime app that absolutely must not be interrupted while it's doing some important stuff.
Who cares about what "people want"? Business isn't democracy, it's about finding a niche. If these folks can find buyers, and if they don't stupidly overextend themselves dotcom style, then they could keep ticking along despite never eclipsing the existing OSes.
Ironically I'd say yes. One of the main things that sets business above this current crop of deskbound fumblers is the willingness to take personal, mortal risks on new technology - and to find crews / passengers who know the risks and are prepared to chance it. This is the way that technologies get as polished and near-faultles as modern transport: by trial and (sometimes fatal) error.
I watch in amusement as yet another euro-firework goes pop. Yet another demonstration of the uselessness of the United Socialist Bureaucratic States of Europe. Yet another demonstration of the shoddiness of that oxymoron "nationalized industry".
My prediction: in less than a decade from now, only businessmen will own space vehicles, and space will be settled by commerce, not governments. And at long last, with honest capitalism at the wheel, space tourism will become as normal, safe, available, and comparatively inexpensive as a luxury sea cruise.
...and not for the first reason you might think, either.
I suspect MS Office for linux will certainly not arrive soon - the reason being: linux library versions. To release a binary executable, you have to target it at a precise distro or set of distros, and specify this is a virgin, unpatched distro at that. But who in the real linux world keeps to the exact default-install unpatchced version of their distro? Nobody. Everybody tweaks to keep up wth the prereqs of their fave programs, or at the very least installs security patched updates.
Hence, the only software I've experienced as persistently stable and workable on all linuxen is compile-it-yourself source. Which does me no hassle at all, compiling is trivial. Still, it would panic MS, they shure-as-shit don't want to give out the MS Office source to Joe Hacker.
Vigilante justice (AKA blood-feud) is the best foundation for real justice. Far better than law made by politicians and enforced without the individual's consent.
I'll explain...
The supposition you seem to be working from is that unopposed vigilante justice would result in innocent folks being harmed. But, you forget that blood-feud cuts both ways - commit an injustice and you could be next on somebody's hit list.
It takes people very little time to realise that starting a war this way is to nobody's benefit. Thus spring up voluntary courts based on customary, not fiat, law. The aim of which, is to repair the harm done by one person to another. This voluntary legal system has market-forces that prevent the kinds of abuse to which legislative law is prone. Too harsh a fine, and the crook refuses to follow the judgement, preferring to shoot it out or at least negotiate for a different judge. Too soft, and the victim does likewise. And in no case can a law suit be brought where there has been no harm - the defendant would refuse to come to court, the judge would refuse to try it. Thus are avoided bread-and-circuses laws that steal from some and give favors to others, thus are avoided bans on victimless "crimes".
That was pretty much how it worked in viking Iceland - a system which lasted for 300 years (more than the USA thus far). They have sagas about their heroic lawyers, rather than hating them as pond scum as this culture does.
Not only does the law belong "in your own hands", but that's the only way to get honest justice.
...you have nothing to lose but your jobs, your liberty, and your self esteem. Hasn't anyone noticed yet that socialism is a dud?
Seriously, any industry that isn't a sweat-shop is complacent. A company or an individual who's inspired and actively working to turn ideas into saleable product hasn't got time to waste on the cushy stuff.
- Elves (and Elrond half-elven), who are born magical, and are immortal unless killed
- Dwarves, who are born magical and massively outlive humans
- Strider, who's a born king with "better" blood (and likely to long outlive any normal human)
- Gandalf, who's a sort of demi-god despite appearing human
- Treebeard, who's a walking talking tree, who can smash stone with a grasp-and-pull, and who lives almost as long as elves
- And the hobbits, who are about as ordinary as any character gets - although Frodo and Bilbo are semi-special, elite elf-friend ring-bearer mithril-wearing hobbits.
Not elitist? Hmm.
Disclaimer: I don't necessarily even *dislike* elitism.
Is your neighbor hoarding pencils? Since the Prevention Of Subversion Act (2009) was passed, all pens have been required to have proper government wireless logging. Owning a pencil is illegal. Report hoarders to the police! Your house may be inspected for contraband at any time - if we catch you with illegal untapped writing materials, the penalty is incarceration as an enemy combatant in Traitor City X-ray. Remember citizen, information is the poison by which treason subverts patriotism. Eternal war for eternal peace! Heil Bush!
Do you say this because an open-source BMRT would have been open to public scrutiny, forcing Pixar to explicitly identify the infringing source code? Or because an open-source BMRT would have been well-distributed and dispersed, preventing the shutdown of a single distribution point?
Partly the first argument, plus the fact that it woluld have been possible to tear out the specific code and rebuild around what's left.
But, mostly because it's easy to twist the arm of a corporation if you have deeper pockets, but much harder to attack a slew of hobbyist individuals. Who do they sue, who is authorized to surrender, how do they know they've cut off all copies, how do they deal with the bad PR of picking on the little guy? This is why no GPL programs have yet been harassed off the market.
Corporations are as a general rule disinclined to stand on principle. Wave a lawsuit in their face plus an attractive counteroffer and they'll agree without a fight.
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Even for SCO to respond with anything less than an emphatic denial is enough for them to deserve having their tires slashed, their houses graffiti'd and roadkill posted through their letter boxes. And for people to sit in vans outside their corporate HQ with jury-rigged gadgets blasting radio white noise at all the CPUs therein.
And with 10,000 of those defined in your code, that's 10,000 instances of slightly-relabled Object to be constructed at startup and sit in RAM afterward, doing diddly-squat. A "public static final int CONST_FOO = 1" type definition meanwhile occupies precisely 4 bytes of space and takes no time to initialize.
Remember, even bare Object instances have behavior. You can wait on them, notify them, get their hashcode, etc etc... they are not negligible.
Real debugging uses (1) printf calls to trace execution path, dump variables, and detect the crash point down to the nearest few lines (2) eyeballs and brain to spot the goof now its position is locked down. Debuggers are just for the wierdass bugs, and mostly they break differently in those cases anyway, because they're singlestepping not running full tilt.
A good debugger for those cases whern one's needed is DDD.
Look isn't the point.
Look and feel and expected behavior and interoperability are the point.
Ever tried to use an app that emulates your OS's native widgets with skins? It doesn't look right, it ignores global color and font settings, it ignores UI guidelines, it behaves differently when you drag the scrollbars, it uses its own oddball keystroke commands, you can't drag-n-drop to or from it... bleh.
Ah yes, the obligatory politcally correct "global ecological catastrophe", which in this case drives humans off the planet into space.
Hmm, come again, it drives the most resourceful species in known existence off a planet, and into space - which has no ecology, period, and is the most hostile location yet known (outside of volcanoes or the deep ocean)? Scared of ice and smog, one retreats into a radiation saturated desert of hard vacuum?
Eco hippies are so clueless sometimes.
And even this whole "unable to survive their own pollution" thing is BS. Walk outside and smell the air. 19th century london pea-souper it is not. The environment is getting better, not worse. And even if it were not... We are the only species that lives in the cold core of antartica. We are the only species that has an outpost in orbit. And yet a tad of funky air is supposed to scare us off the planet? Hah, don't make me laugh.
I suppose it's a cheap way of wishing humans out of the picture, but they could at least have invented something original.
I mean, take a look at this for example. Ouch. I mean, perl can be bad, C can get hairy, but sheesh. As far as hairy goes this is chewbacca overdosed on rogaine.
Does anyone know of a "wipe" style utility that can also wipe ununsed disk space (deleted inodes etc) on linux?
If you get a chemistry set, expect intrusions from nosy and thuggish bastards in ninja suits, who are operating on the assumption that you are making drugs, of which for some daft reason they disapprove.
JSP: overkill, mangle code into HTML and vice versa.
Webmacro: bloody unreadable.
Tea: vastly overkill, a whole new language.
XMLC: overkill in most cases, who wants to have to manipulate the DOM of a parsed page to set a few template variables?
Velocity: plenty good, but it isn't that portable, and it stll looks kinda ugly. All those ### make it impossible to edit templates in GUI webpage editors.
XSLT: ouch!
HTML template hits the spot. Simple, no business logic mangled into the page, can be XML-ly correct, and it's even portable between perl and java.
Actually, at the end of the article it mentions the idea of taking a biopsy of yourself, and growing a You-Burger(tm).
Sounds like a useful sideline for famous celebrities. Brad Pitt Beefcake Burgers, Britney steak...
...is Kung Fu robots!! and then they'll be able to take over the wooorld!!!! bwahahahah
...does that sound like a manga title or what? ;-)
Upon seeing the above post, commercial-goods-search sites the web over are screaming in panic. What will google take over next?!!
Business isn't democracy,
It most certainly is! At least in a capitalist economy. People vote with their wallets.
No, you miss the Very Important Difference.
- In democracy, everyone votes and then the bunch of politicians with the highest poll result get to forcibly impose their ideas on everyone else, expressly including the people who did not vote for them.
- Compared to business where a vast majority wanting X in no way prevents one from selling competitor Y, provided there are enough interested customers to turn a profit. Even if that's only one or two people.
How precisely is java's new generics design flawed?
There is also "cooperative multitasking" where the app must explicitly call yield() to hand over control. Effectively single tasking with hidden, rapid task switching. The disadvantages are pretty obvious - no suitability for SMP, and it can wedge solid or hog the CPU, but it also has advantages eg: in cases where you're running a semi-realtime app that absolutely must not be interrupted while it's doing some important stuff.
Who cares about what "people want"? Business isn't democracy, it's about finding a niche. If these folks can find buyers, and if they don't stupidly overextend themselves dotcom style, then they could keep ticking along despite never eclipsing the existing OSes.
Like the Titanic?!?
Ironically I'd say yes. One of the main things that sets business above this current crop of deskbound fumblers is the willingness to take personal, mortal risks on new technology - and to find crews / passengers who know the risks and are prepared to chance it. This is the way that technologies get as polished and near-faultles as modern transport: by trial and (sometimes fatal) error.
I watch in amusement as yet another euro-firework goes pop. Yet another demonstration of the uselessness of the United Socialist Bureaucratic States of Europe. Yet another demonstration of the shoddiness of that oxymoron "nationalized industry".
My prediction: in less than a decade from now, only businessmen will own space vehicles, and space will be settled by commerce, not governments. And at long last, with honest capitalism at the wheel, space tourism will become as normal, safe, available, and comparatively inexpensive as a luxury sea cruise.
...and not for the first reason you might think, either.
I suspect MS Office for linux will certainly not arrive soon - the reason being: linux library versions. To release a binary executable, you have to target it at a precise distro or set of distros, and specify this is a virgin, unpatched distro at that. But who in the real linux world keeps to the exact default-install unpatchced version of their distro? Nobody. Everybody tweaks to keep up wth the prereqs of their fave programs, or at the very least installs security patched updates.
Hence, the only software I've experienced as persistently stable and workable on all linuxen is compile-it-yourself source. Which does me no hassle at all, compiling is trivial. Still, it would panic MS, they shure-as-shit don't want to give out the MS Office source to Joe Hacker.
Vigilante justice (AKA blood-feud) is the best foundation for real justice. Far better than law made by politicians and enforced without the individual's consent.
I'll explain...
The supposition you seem to be working from is that unopposed vigilante justice would result in innocent folks being harmed. But, you forget that blood-feud cuts both ways - commit an injustice and you could be next on somebody's hit list.
It takes people very little time to realise that starting a war this way is to nobody's benefit. Thus spring up voluntary courts based on customary, not fiat, law. The aim of which, is to repair the harm done by one person to another. This voluntary legal system has market-forces that prevent the kinds of abuse to which legislative law is prone. Too harsh a fine, and the crook refuses to follow the judgement, preferring to shoot it out or at least negotiate for a different judge. Too soft, and the victim does likewise. And in no case can a law suit be brought where there has been no harm - the defendant would refuse to come to court, the judge would refuse to try it. Thus are avoided bread-and-circuses laws that steal from some and give favors to others, thus are avoided bans on victimless "crimes".
That was pretty much how it worked in viking Iceland - a system which lasted for 300 years (more than the USA thus far). They have sagas about their heroic lawyers, rather than hating them as pond scum as this culture does.
Not only does the law belong "in your own hands", but that's the only way to get honest justice.
...you have nothing to lose but your jobs, your liberty, and your self esteem. Hasn't anyone noticed yet that socialism is a dud?
Seriously, any industry that isn't a sweat-shop is complacent. A company or an individual who's inspired and actively working to turn ideas into saleable product hasn't got time to waste on the cushy stuff.
Unlike:
- Elves (and Elrond half-elven), who are born magical, and are immortal unless killed
- Dwarves, who are born magical and massively outlive humans
- Strider, who's a born king with "better" blood (and likely to long outlive any normal human)
- Gandalf, who's a sort of demi-god despite appearing human
- Treebeard, who's a walking talking tree, who can smash stone with a grasp-and-pull, and who lives almost as long as elves
- And the hobbits, who are about as ordinary as any character gets - although Frodo and Bilbo are semi-special, elite elf-friend ring-bearer mithril-wearing hobbits.
Not elitist? Hmm.
Disclaimer: I don't necessarily even *dislike* elitism.
Is your neighbor hoarding pencils? Since the Prevention Of Subversion Act (2009) was passed, all pens have been required to have proper government wireless logging. Owning a pencil is illegal. Report hoarders to the police! Your house may be inspected for contraband at any time - if we catch you with illegal untapped writing materials, the penalty is incarceration as an enemy combatant in Traitor City X-ray. Remember citizen, information is the poison by which treason subverts patriotism. Eternal war for eternal peace! Heil Bush!
Do you say this because an open-source BMRT would have been open to public scrutiny, forcing Pixar to explicitly identify the infringing source code? Or because an open-source BMRT would have been well-distributed and dispersed, preventing the shutdown of a single distribution point?
Partly the first argument, plus the fact that it woluld have been possible to tear out the specific code and rebuild around what's left.
But, mostly because it's easy to twist the arm of a corporation if you have deeper pockets, but much harder to attack a slew of hobbyist individuals. Who do they sue, who is authorized to surrender, how do they know they've cut off all copies, how do they deal with the bad PR of picking on the little guy? This is why no GPL programs have yet been harassed off the market.
Corporations are as a general rule disinclined to stand on principle. Wave a lawsuit in their face plus an attractive counteroffer and they'll agree without a fight.