yeah, but check your phone bill. you probably pay $10 or more a month in gov't fees and taxes to help pay for internet access in school and making sure phone service is available everywhere (as if it isn't).
Broadband for everyone probably means broadband taxes for everyone.
they sell wma files. DRM wma files at that. You can't play them in MacOS. They're not supported in linux. They're only supported in windows and with wma players.
supporting opera/mozilla means testing all the css and javascript with those browsers. there are quite a few places where IE gets it wrong but they get it right which means nast hacks would be required to support all 3 platforms. sorry, it's a no-brainer: IE/windows only.
most games these days don't really excite me like games I used to play in the early 90s (arcade and home PC). Look at an arcade machine or joystick from the early 90s - you probably had 2 buttons to go with a joystick. Now look at an xbox controller - it's got 2 triggers, 6 buttons on top and 2 joysticks. sure the graphics are pretty, but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to do anything.
I got Rise of Nations the other day. It's pretty cool, but seems like civilization meets age of empires, so it's boring me already.
Meanwhile, I downloaded scummvm and beneath a steel sky. That seems much more interesting.
slashdot is definitely biased towards the open source/linux culture. However, there are 2 groups of slashdot readers: rabid, militaristic open source freaks in college/high school. they're living on daddy's dime, so they can drone on about this being the year linux conquors the desktop, MS sucks, gentoo linux is cool, etc.
However, there are also a lot of slashdot readers that have bills to pay, mouths to feed, etc, so they spend all day working with Windows and MS tools collecting a paycheck from the man. Maybe at night they use linux, or think open source is a good idea (but have traded ideals for a paycheck).
All the advertising in the world won't affect the first group (they don't have any money to spend anyhow), but the second group might convince their boss that VB.Net would be better than VB for the SQL front end (even if they'd rather use mono or python).
From the faq:
Why did we decide on a new programming language?
Smalltalk-80 is over 20 years old. We don't think the original team intended for the model to last this long (well, from discussions on the Squeak mailing list, they've said so).
Smalltalk doesn't adequately express many design possibilities that show up often in good complex programs. Requiring classes, not allowing multiple dispatch, and not including some form of multiple inheritance is limiting for a lot of interesting cases.
The Common Lisp and Dylan communities have created some powerful interface toolkits which Smalltalk cannot easily take advantage of.
Cecil is statically-typed and not very dynamic. Dylan suffers from a case of too much syntax, and not enough emphasis on live environments.
Common Lisp is not object-centered or generic enough with its functions.
Goo uses the unfriendly Lisp syntax, and isn't quite suited to object-centered thinking.
Self turned out to be too strange an environment for Smalltalkers, and never had a decent implementation. Strongtalk was bought up.
Bytecode virtual machines and chunk format are old hat. It'd be worth at least trying some different run-time setup.
The Squeak system is very powerful in terms of some experimental libraries and user interface ideas, but is based on an aging architecture and a license that is partly troublesome.
i think smalltalk++ would be a better approach than inventing a new language. Look at C++: it's backwards compatable with C, so a C coder is already a C++ coder and can slowly start making use of new C++ features.
the downside means most people wouldn't buy a computer to begin with, so there would be *less* people writing and using open source software.
Programmers start somewhere. Mom and dad buy little johhny a computer so he can do his homework (and play games), daddy can bring work home with him, mommy can organize her recipes. a couple years later they get a new one and johhny installs linux. or maybe he's so interested in them he goes to college, majors in CS and learns the joys of unix and open source. take away the MS gateway and you're shrinking the pie for everyone.
non-profit doesn't mean extra money won't be used on lavish offices, company cars, christmas bonuses, meetings in the cayman islands, fancy artwork for the executive washroom, etc.
Alternatively, money can be transferred to for-profit businesses which are owned/run by the same executives.
Both of those practices are common in non-profit and profit-regulated businesses (ok, it's common in all businesses).
sure they count. I work for a company that uses linux as an embedded OS. we started with a base version of linux, added realtime patches, etc, stripped out a lot of stuff we don't need, added drivers we do need. Every so often we sync up the parts we retained with the latest stable release. However, I know many embedded companies don't sync up, they just apply patches when major vulnerabilities are announced.
Universities and colleges can offer some benefits you won't find elsewhere. Free tuition for yourself (if you want to pursue a degree in a hobby field). Free or reduced tuition for your children. More vacation time.
When I was in college, most of the janitors I knew told me they were thankful for their job because they had, or would soon have, kids in college.
The supreme court didn't declare the tomato a vegetable, they said that it should be treated as a vegetable for tax/regulation purposes.
That was in 1893. A fruit importer filed a lawsuit since to recover duties levied on fruits (but not vegetables). It had nothing to do with school lunch or nutritional guidelines.
I'm not suggesting that it's as hard to make an album as it is to write a book but there's at least as much creative talent at work here. That sort of talent deserves to be fairly compensated. Could you or I do it?
he's talking about trance music. cat/dev/random >/dev/speaker could do it.
The next step will be for CNet to be competing with an offshore website.
When a country runs a negative trade balance, that money doesn't just disappear. It returns to purchase US gov't debt or US properties (real estate, stocks, companies, etc.). The #1 and #2 holders of US gov't debt are Japan and China.
The CNets of the US are saving money now, but are digging a collective grave for themselves.
nafta? you've been listening to too many democratic presidential debates. NAFTA is largely irrelevant. Those low wage jobs that went to Mexico have since moved to India and china.
The first law of economics is that division of labor (and world trade) increase total prosperity.
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Broadband for everyone probably means broadband taxes for everyone.
supporting opera/mozilla means testing all the css and javascript with those browsers. there are quite a few places where IE gets it wrong but they get it right which means nast hacks would be required to support all 3 platforms. sorry, it's a no-brainer: IE/windows only.
I got Rise of Nations the other day. It's pretty cool, but seems like civilization meets age of empires, so it's boring me already.
Meanwhile, I downloaded scummvm and beneath a steel sky. That seems much more interesting.
However, there are also a lot of slashdot readers that have bills to pay, mouths to feed, etc, so they spend all day working with Windows and MS tools collecting a paycheck from the man. Maybe at night they use linux, or think open source is a good idea (but have traded ideals for a paycheck).
All the advertising in the world won't affect the first group (they don't have any money to spend anyhow), but the second group might convince their boss that VB.Net would be better than VB for the SQL front end (even if they'd rather use mono or python).
i think smalltalk++ would be a better approach than inventing a new language. Look at C++: it's backwards compatable with C, so a C coder is already a C++ coder and can slowly start making use of new C++ features.
Apple and IBM don't have a good track record for combined OS development.
Programmers start somewhere. Mom and dad buy little johhny a computer so he can do his homework (and play games), daddy can bring work home with him, mommy can organize her recipes. a couple years later they get a new one and johhny installs linux. or maybe he's so interested in them he goes to college, majors in CS and learns the joys of unix and open source. take away the MS gateway and you're shrinking the pie for everyone.
OS/2 was a joint venture between MS and IBM.
Alternatively, money can be transferred to for-profit businesses which are owned/run by the same executives.
Both of those practices are common in non-profit and profit-regulated businesses (ok, it's common in all businesses).
Yes. Numbers by themselves are not trademarkable. That's why intel branded the 586 a "pentium".
C and C++ have ISO and ANSI standards. How is that not "open"?
The lawsuit depended on java being closed source.
sure they count. I work for a company that uses linux as an embedded OS. we started with a base version of linux, added realtime patches, etc, stripped out a lot of stuff we don't need, added drivers we do need. Every so often we sync up the parts we retained with the latest stable release. However, I know many embedded companies don't sync up, they just apply patches when major vulnerabilities are announced.
When I was in college, most of the janitors I knew told me they were thankful for their job because they had, or would soon have, kids in college.
Anybody who spent money using an unofficial registrar deserves an unofficial tld. You can't expect a $200 fake harvard degree to make you smart.
That was in 1893. A fruit importer filed a lawsuit since to recover duties levied on fruits (but not vegetables). It had nothing to do with school lunch or nutritional guidelines.
Apple is making virtually no profit with a $0.30-$.35 cut of every song. How would Apple make more money at $.10 a song?
he's talking about trance music. cat /dev/random > /dev/speaker could do it.
When a country runs a negative trade balance, that money doesn't just disappear. It returns to purchase US gov't debt or US properties (real estate, stocks, companies, etc.). The #1 and #2 holders of US gov't debt are Japan and China.
The CNets of the US are saving money now, but are digging a collective grave for themselves.
The first law of economics is that division of labor (and world trade) increase total prosperity.
OSDN also supports Indian outsourcing.