What will stop them form making Windows without IE crash every 15 minutes?
What will stop it from forcefully removing HTML rendering & ActiveX with IE, an invite them to install IE when Kazaa tells them it needs mshtml.dll? (Or is that a good thing - Kazaa will stop showing banners using IE? My version of Kazaa Lite still shows pop-ups.)
Finally, what will stop them from shipping the non-modular version with PCs and requesting that people buy the normal one for $XXX?
Does this mean that car-jacking is considered being of the category as rape & killing?
Also, does "killing of humans" mean that Prince of Persia is now "restricted"? What about Sierra's quests? What about Civilization (that's massive killing! sometimes genocide!)? What about Heroes of Might and Magic?
It's quite simple, in fact. The outside of the atom is made out of particles. To make it cheaper, they started to manufacture the inside out of air^H^H^Hwaves. Eighty years ago, they were paid to create a theory about why it's as good, so atoms reamined just as expensive.
Good thing they didn't have DMCA back then. In that case, it would be much easier for them to just prohibit any study of atoms, as a protection against reverse engineering. Or, atoms would be encrypted well enough no one could really find out what's inside.
I can't say I found a lot of information in the article... Still, here are some questions about the design of the language:
1) Why are classes like Integer so weird? It is such a pain to, for example, increment them... Change of this would conflict with absence of operator overloading, true (I don't like that too much either, but at least can imagine why it's (not) there). However, why not make them magical like String's "+"?
2) Several times I got caught on the fact that there is no way to pass an int by reference. And I don't like Integer (see aboive)...
3) One (public) class per file. This especially bugs me with small interfaces. Such a waste of screen space and disk space (each file takes up 4k on the file system)... Why not allow to put a hierarchy of interfaces (and, preferably, classes) in one file?
This wasn't intended to be troll, even if it looks and feels like one.;)
They're going to send out the CD's to all homes in America, with bold caption Open Source 6.0. Then, everybody will think Open Source == AOL and will start to hate everything connected to open source!
The answer is a definite 'kind-of'. Which is to say, 'no'.
I can't help but to remember a Disney cartoon. This phrase is usually said by the puny supporters of the Very Evil Guy when they fail another terrible plan...
The US govenment announced that it is now allowed to pass any laws, as long as they are in the best interest of its citizens. Everyone is now very happy (scroll down a bit).
Also,/. should shorten NYTimes, where free registration is required to NYTFRR in its stories. Less space wasted...
Windows YP will include X-BOX as a mandatory part of the operating system. Bill Gates says:
"Not inclusion of X-BOX in Windows put the development of Windows 10 years back. Now, we can move in the bright future with Windows YP! Toaster included, too!"
Mr Gates argued that the proposals allowed rivals to strip out anything they wanted and still call it Windows. "What Windows is loses any meaning," claimed Mr Gates.
Right, Windows that doesn't dictate everyone how to do web pages and music is not Windows! Also, it won't probably work too well... They'll see to it that the crash message box will read:
"Your program has performed an illegal operation and will be closed. This might have happened because your program needs Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 to run. Please contact the software manufacturer if the problem presists. To remedy the problem, you may also want to install MSIE 7.0 or later."
And, every visitor of our site (coming up soon) will be able to take part in the game! You too will be able to participate in our poll and decide which button should be pressed now. Each hour, majority will be decided and a step of the game will happen, for all of you to enjoy!
There is no point left in space for politicians, and no one else will supply the huge needed amount of money.
For politicians, there are exactly two reasons to explore space:
1) Military. You don't need anyone alive in orbit for this. The only things you need are lots of small satellites. Even if there is some exploration in this area, the public will rarely find out. Fortuanetly, there are a couple of exceptions (GPS, even though in no way exploration of space).
2) Public opinion. All money NASA has are pumped into the Space Station. Why? It has very little scientific value - the only thing I can imagine doing there is biology without gravity. However, lots of people know about it as the Big Thing. So, they are willing to elect the politicians who support the ISS.
The times of space needed for The Public Opiniton are passing, however, as well. Duting the Cold War, space was extremly important to both sides - show 'em we're better. Also, space was the New Big Thing for the people. So, both in the US and USSR space got as much money as it needed. Men were in space, and then on the moon. Shuttle and Proton were developed, and they still fly today. Nothing better was developed for 50 years (for Proton).
Now however, the times have passed. As Cold War ended, space stopped being one of the first military priorities. People cooled down towards space, as it became explored enough for them. The great need of exciting people about their country has passed, too. Not being the first priority, space can't get the huge funds it needs. And people who can pay want it to pay back. How will a spacecraft to Pluto pay me my $n million?
So, Pluto is passing by, but no one cares. I don't think there are going to be men on Mars in many years. To send men to Mars you need a cold war.
Slashdot Mirror
people should try to make Cygwin better. If it was just a bit faster & just a bit better polished, why would you need a PC emulator?
I'm using Cygwin all the time (too lazy to reboot)...
This is how Matrix begins.
Pretty cool (or should I say warm? or hot?)
Wait eight months and tell us!
what will stop MS from making Office require IE?
What will stop them form making Windows without IE crash every 15 minutes?
What will stop it from forcefully removing HTML rendering & ActiveX with IE, an invite them to install IE when Kazaa tells them it needs mshtml.dll? (Or is that a good thing - Kazaa will stop showing banners using IE? My version of Kazaa Lite still shows pop-ups.)
Finally, what will stop them from shipping the non-modular version with PCs and requesting that people buy the normal one for $XXX?
I mean, how far do you go? Slide rule? Abacus? They are all computing devices.
That's obvious. Fingers.
;)
but I thought Macs never were PCs. PCs are computers that are 99% IBM PC compatible, right?
It had nothing to do with videogames
....
Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate...
I couldn't resist...
... car-jackings ...
Does this mean that car-jacking is considered being of the category as rape & killing?
Also, does "killing of humans" mean that Prince of Persia is now "restricted"? What about Sierra's quests? What about Civilization (that's massive killing! sometimes genocide!)? What about Heroes of Might and Magic?
'enough to buy the entire airline industry -- twice.'
Every major company will buy itself an airline. And then, airlines will truly be like OSes.
;)
It's quite simple, in fact. The outside of the atom is made out of particles. To make it cheaper, they started to manufacture the inside out of air^H^H^Hwaves. Eighty years ago, they were paid to create a theory about why it's as good, so atoms reamined just as expensive.
Good thing they didn't have DMCA back then. In that case, it would be much easier for them to just prohibit any study of atoms, as a protection against reverse engineering. Or, atoms would be encrypted well enough no one could really find out what's inside.
;)
Imagine how much lost nerd & geek productivity does Slashdot produce. It's scary to even try to imagine the number in $$....
;)
... is stealing of air from public domain.
You should be obliged to doing community service for this.
;)
I can't say I found a lot of information in the article... Still, here are some questions about the design of the language:
;)
1) Why are classes like Integer so weird? It is such a pain to, for example, increment them... Change of this would conflict with absence of operator overloading, true (I don't like that too much either, but at least can imagine why it's (not) there). However, why not make them magical like String's "+"?
2) Several times I got caught on the fact that there is no way to pass an int by reference. And I don't like Integer (see aboive)...
3) One (public) class per file. This especially bugs me with small interfaces. Such a waste of screen space and disk space (each file takes up 4k on the file system)... Why not allow to put a hierarchy of interfaces (and, preferably, classes) in one file?
This wasn't intended to be troll, even if it looks and feels like one.
--
I like '...' (and (nested) parens)...
They're going to send out the CD's to all homes in America, with bold caption Open Source 6.0. Then, everybody will think Open Source == AOL and will start to hate everything connected to open source!
Imagine, Open Source CD in a microwave...
;)
The answer is a definite 'kind-of'. Which is to say, 'no'.
I can't help but to remember a Disney cartoon. This phrase is usually said by the puny supporters of the Very Evil Guy when they fail another terrible plan...
Here (from this site).
The US govenment announced that it is now allowed to pass any laws, as long as they are in the best interest of its citizens. Everyone is now very happy (scroll down a bit).
/. should shorten NYTimes, where free registration is required to NYTFRR in its stories. Less space wasted...
Also,
Surely you don't believe that!
I mean, everybody says, this is so wrong!
Cooperation, scary...
Windows YP will include X-BOX as a mandatory part of the operating system. Bill Gates says:
"Not inclusion of X-BOX in Windows put the development of Windows 10 years back. Now, we can move in the bright future with Windows YP! Toaster included, too!"
Mr Gates argued that the proposals allowed rivals to strip out anything they wanted and still call it Windows. "What Windows is loses any meaning," claimed Mr Gates.
Right, Windows that doesn't dictate everyone how to do web pages and music is not Windows! Also, it won't probably work too well... They'll see to it that the crash message box will read:
"Your program has performed an illegal operation and will be closed. This might have happened because your program needs Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 to run. Please contact the software manufacturer if the problem presists. To remedy the problem, you may also want to install MSIE 7.0 or later."
Will be an interactive game of Tetris!
And, every visitor of our site (coming up soon) will be able to take part in the game! You too will be able to participate in our poll and decide which button should be pressed now. Each hour, majority will be decided and a step of the game will happen, for all of you to enjoy!
Just don't forget to bookmark: www.g4.org!
Yes, this move killed my program. Well, you know, I expected this, so I won!
Won what?
This site describes several packs of chips labeled with Episode II. Check your local department store... And that's before the release!
I can imagine Episode II on DVD including 2 DVDs with movie, and three with "additional features".
There is no point left in space for politicians, and no one else will supply the huge needed amount of money.
For politicians, there are exactly two reasons to explore space:
1) Military. You don't need anyone alive in orbit for this. The only things you need are lots of small satellites. Even if there is some exploration in this area, the public will rarely find out. Fortuanetly, there are a couple of exceptions (GPS, even though in no way exploration of space).
2) Public opinion. All money NASA has are pumped into the Space Station. Why? It has very little scientific value - the only thing I can imagine doing there is biology without gravity. However, lots of people know about it as the Big Thing. So, they are willing to elect the politicians who support the ISS.
The times of space needed for The Public Opiniton are passing, however, as well. Duting the Cold War, space was extremly important to both sides - show 'em we're better. Also, space was the New Big Thing for the people. So, both in the US and USSR space got as much money as it needed. Men were in space, and then on the moon. Shuttle and Proton were developed, and they still fly today. Nothing better was developed for 50 years (for Proton).
Now however, the times have passed. As Cold War ended, space stopped being one of the first military priorities. People cooled down towards space, as it became explored enough for them. The great need of exciting people about their country has passed, too. Not being the first priority, space can't get the huge funds it needs. And people who can pay want it to pay back. How will a spacecraft to Pluto pay me my $n million?
So, Pluto is passing by, but no one cares. I don't think there are going to be men on Mars in many years. To send men to Mars you need a cold war.
Wouldn't this nice ozone layer also protect us from the microwave waves the power generators will send to Earth?