Some of this stuff is starting to ignore the asking for permission bit. That is when things are no longer good. Then again that is already violating other laws.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: C is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered C community when recently IDC confirmed that C accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all languages. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that C has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. C is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict C's future. The hand writing is on the wall: C faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for C because C is dying. Things are looking very bad for C. As many of us are already aware, C continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeC is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenC leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenC. How many users of NetC are there? Let's see. The number of OpenC versus NetC posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetC users. C/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetC posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of C/OS. A recent article put FreeC at about 80 percent of the C market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeC users. This is consistent with the number of FreeC Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeC went out of business and was taken over by CI who sell another troubled OS. Now CI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that C has steadily declined in market share. C is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If C is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. C continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, C is dead.
The speed limit was set at temporarily during the oil "shortage". States are now free to pick themselves. And have you diven on roads in those counties in LA during that period? not pretty from what I have heard.
Treasure? I doubt it. Linus is a great individual, and has my highest respect. But this is more than what HE accomplished. He has coordinated a great deal of it, but linux is no longer his. Linux is a community. Linus a world treasure? no. Linus is the the catalyst. The free software and open source movements were not his creation. Linus is the man that got things rolling faster. For that I thank him profusely.
Eh, I doubt it. While tensile strength needs to be high in a ballistics vest, it also needs to be a little bit elastic. If not the shock just gets passed to the body full force.
In the state of underhanded tactics that MS has been known to use (I mean, they are a large corp, you don't get THAT big without playing dirty, or being free), I am not at all surprised. Next thing you know, they are gonna give free copies of Office to people who influence buying for their companies....
I have to agree with you, I have had a leatherman wave for a while. My roommate showed me his gerber and I almost died of jealousy. Seriously, the Leatherman is a nifty toy, but the Gerber is a piece of engineering mastery. It's the little things that count.
Whew... and I thought all of my code that "Magically works" (getting data from god knows where in memory, yet still works, somehow, much like windows) would need to be written properly.
It's all true. I used to work for a certain government contracted tech support call center in Lawrence KS. Some of the people there couldn't operate a calculator, let alone a computer. Oddly enough, that's how HR liked it. If you put an idiot with a script in front of them on the phone, they may piss off people, but they are less likely to do any real damage. As apposed to the guy who thinks he knows what he is doing, and magically get's IE uninstalled on a win98 machine and all hell breaks loose (had to see it to believe it).
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Just need to cross reference it with everything2.com and wikipedia, and you have your own hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
Don't forget your towel!
Still takes a lot of Oil, Water, and Electricity to recycle that paper.
I have a problem swallowing the need for that. "Good NEWS!, It's a suppository." - the Professor.
I wanna smack the person who modded this up Insightful. It was a joke. The parent to my post requested it, so I did it.
:)
As for your post, this fake flame war is hurting my head
Some of this stuff is starting to ignore the asking for permission bit. That is when things are no longer good. Then again that is already violating other laws.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: C is dying Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered C community when recently IDC confirmed that C accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all languages. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that C has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. C is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict C's future. The hand writing is on the wall: C faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for C because C is dying. Things are looking very bad for C. As many of us are already aware, C continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeC is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenC leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenC. How many users of NetC are there? Let's see. The number of OpenC versus NetC posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetC users. C/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetC posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of C/OS. A recent article put FreeC at about 80 percent of the C market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeC users. This is consistent with the number of FreeC Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeC went out of business and was taken over by CI who sell another troubled OS. Now CI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that C has steadily declined in market share. C is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If C is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. C continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, C is dead.
Fact: C is dead
OT but... Get a hard pad, or a RedOctane 2.0 I weigh 240lbs, and that RedOctane keeps taking a beating without fail on 9 footers.
I'm sorry all circuts are busy right now...
/Ma Bell B$&%^
the thing that gets me though, is considering todays available technology, why is the sound quality of phones still so bad?
Cost is why.
Instead of getting more hardware, they started using more compression. From a business standpoint it's a no brainer.
The speed limit was set at temporarily during the oil "shortage". States are now free to pick themselves. And have you diven on roads in those counties in LA during that period? not pretty from what I have heard.
Treasure? I doubt it. Linus is a great individual, and has my highest respect. But this is more than what HE accomplished. He has coordinated a great deal of it, but linux is no longer his. Linux is a community. Linus a world treasure? no. Linus is the the catalyst. The free software and open source movements were not his creation. Linus is the man that got things rolling faster. For that I thank him profusely.
Eh, I doubt it. While tensile strength needs to be high in a ballistics vest, it also needs to be a little bit elastic. If not the shock just gets passed to the body full force.
In the state of underhanded tactics that MS has been known to use (I mean, they are a large corp, you don't get THAT big without playing dirty, or being free), I am not at all surprised. Next thing you know, they are gonna give free copies of Office to people who influence buying for their companies....
/Obvious tag needed
I have to agree with you, I have had a leatherman wave for a while. My roommate showed me his gerber and I almost died of jealousy. Seriously, the Leatherman is a nifty toy, but the Gerber is a piece of engineering mastery. It's the little things that count.
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Muahahahaha.... I Vant to suck your productivity...
Actually, it's already done, just need to port it.
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But will it lug it uphill in the snow both ways?
While your purpose is noble, please remember some businesses have these things called multi-year contracts.
Extreme stress, or extreme occilations?
Unfortunately they are at different angles on newer boards, negating the effect. Stickers or paint work well tho.
cripes, you're right. (now fixed)
If you CAN'T beat em, copy em, and advertize the hell out of your product/service.
If you can beat em, copy em, and advertize the hell out of your product/service.
Whew... and I thought all of my code that "Magically works" (getting data from god knows where in memory, yet still works, somehow, much like windows) would need to be written properly.
It's all true. I used to work for a certain government contracted tech support call center in Lawrence KS. Some of the people there couldn't operate a calculator, let alone a computer. Oddly enough, that's how HR liked it. If you put an idiot with a script in front of them on the phone, they may piss off people, but they are less likely to do any real damage. As apposed to the guy who thinks he knows what he is doing, and magically get's IE uninstalled on a win98 machine and all hell breaks loose (had to see it to believe it).