"Microsoft is a lot closer to solving these two issues than people think. Microsoft has the best virtual machine with.NET, the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs. And they have a notion."
better yet: they have a monopoly! They can shove whatever they want down people's throats.
There's a good reason why MIT's introductory computer science courses are teach in the Lisp dialect Scheme: so that they can focus on teaching algorithms, modular design and other high level concepts rather than doing the grease monkey work of dealing with manual memory allocation and an old CPU design when the world quickly changes to a more parallelized approach.
hehe, just after posting this i realized why the need for OpenOffice? Do we really want kids to become automatous, office-dwelling creeps at this early age? save them the trouble and just throw a text editor and calculator...
Strip it down. Throw Gnome or KDE and their memory-hungry associated daemons away and put a simple user interface upfront (FluxBox, XFCE), put in a good autonomous file-manager configured to proxy the right files to the right applications, make sure XMMS is fully loaded of plugins and is the only media player (light and lean) and give the kids some GIMP fun. Don't mind putting Apache, MySQL or PostgreSQL in there: kids are not likely to use them. If high-level scripting is really needed to run anything, just chose one out of perl/python/ruby, ok? Run as few services/daemons as possible. Save the memory for the inevitable resource hogs: Firefox (much lower) and OpenOffice (much higher)...
There's a pretty good reason: by still selling the old IPs, companies can claim people downloading the games to play them on emulators are infringing on their IP and criminally prosecute and shut them down. Nobody really cares for old games on a new console. Perhaps on cell phones and other portable devices with tiny screen and hardware.
So, people genuinelly in love for the old games or historically curious can either: * play them at their old consoles until they die; * pay 8 bucks for each of them, regardless of owning a legal copy already or not.
"A French Parliament member would likely stay in their home directory, not use the command prompt"
how is parent Insightful?! it's been ages since most desktop-geared Linux distributions shunned the CLI in favor of GUI integration and cleaniness, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Suse, you name it.
and BTW, French Parliament members don't touch a computer, they pay people to do data storage and retrieval for them.
any large codebase is a mess, especially ones written in ancient hierogliphic low-level imperative ideograms like C/C++. Just ask Windows Vista developers why it took so long...
the only good thing about proprietary software is that you are never able to see the horror yourself, since the code is closed...
Yes, exactly: Final Fantasy Tactics 2 it is. Even character designs feel somewhat similar. The music composer is also the same, but truth be told, FFT Wagnerian soundtrack is much, much better!:)
"With open source, there is no intellectual property. Anyone can use it and all your ideas become public domain."
he surely got some M$ love: it's the very argument they've been using in their lame "Get the facts" campaign. He must get up to times, since even M$ seems to be willing to get closer to Linux and open-source with the Novell deal and all.
and last but not least: open-source licenses rely heavily on copyright laws to work. no public domain really...
I'd go for quality of life: less coding, more freedom and some fun at the job.
Why would you want a job at a megacorporation in what will be probably a very stressful work environment and coding in one of those ironclad languages with layers upon layers of redundant abstractions and frameworks that in the end do exactly the same as ten lines of Perl?
you know, there are people who can't decide by themselves if it's a trap or not. Hope you guys fight it out and help these poor souls about it. thanks.
"Why isn't this just one of those random genetic mutations everyone is always talking about? Why does it have to be the start/end of an evolutionary path?"
Let enlighten you about how evolution works:
Suppose this is just a random DNA mutation. Now, suppose this extra pair of fins caused by this random mutation gives this single dolphin a competitive advantage against his single-pair mates, sya, more speed to chase food, get away from danger or reproducing. If he has an advantage, it's likely he'll get on with passing his mutated DNA to his descendants, which likely will also bear the same advantage and so on.
Evolution isn't really a smooth path: it's much more like a stair-step thing. Some random mutation get you an extra pair of fins, no more no less. No intermediary steps in between. This is why it's so hard to get "proof" of evolution of human beings from apes or birds from dinosaurs: there's no inbetween really.
Unfortunately, though, for this dolphin fellow, his extra fins will prove to be an evolutionary dead-end, since the fame will likely get him in rich chinese or japanes fin soups... no advantage at all thanks to stupid shit-throwing apes.
I second that. I've been experiencing freezes daily as well, while 1.5 never had such issue, even on the new hyperthreading cpu. I run Firefox ever since phoenix 0.4 on Linux.
In my humble opinion, i'd like for you guys to quit the M$-way-of-life and go back to the speedy open-source development model. Quit this stupid 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 releases and go back to true meaningful double digit version numbers. Firefox 2.0 feels a lot more like Firefox 1.6.
We all know M$'s major number versioning actually labels beta software as major software updates and you guys seems to be following this trend... quit it!
"why rape is bad? Is it because it's inherently bad? Or is it because society says so?"
I believe the one being raped says so. Perhaps society says so because it takes this point of view in consideration rather than the point of view of those practicing it? After all, we humans always care for the victims...
though i don't doubt there are some freaks out there who would enjoy...
hello? eXtensible in XML techs is there for a reason, ok? If a browser doesn't understand a particular tag or attribute, it simple ignores them, like they've been doing for the past decades. Browsers which understand the meaning will provide a better experience.
It's not like people were getting a hard time with IE6, despite it's handicapped CSS handling, for instance.
Be prepared to another brazilian invasion. MySpace's already giving signs of being a huge hub of gossips, vulgarity, diffamation and other Orkut features. Though, of course, it's not a feature of the software, it certainly brings out the worst from people. It's like, suddenly, all imbeciles in the world were given their private TV broadcast channel to transmit their opinions and thoughts throughout the world.
thankfully, it's easier to change the channel than on conventional TV, thanks to the multitude of channels providing much better content...:)
Sorry i was talking about infrastructure code, like, say, Visual Basic being written in C++ itself along with most other tools, libraries and whatnot. Quite unlike in the C-leaning Unix world...
yes, of course! If for no other reason than to come up with a decent API and well thought-out reusable functions/classes/components/whatever...
"a lot of newbie programmers must be reading slashdot, otherwise you wouldn't be getting modded up to 4"
I agree. It was only a half-assed, provocative comment that was somehow perceived as the macho programmer bill of rights.;)
Although, like i replied to someone, and someone else also reminded, the patterns the book describes are truly only useful with imperative OO languages. Lisp/Haskell/ML guys are much better off with first-class functions, currying and others far more expressive techniques, whereas the design patterns should prove clumsy solutions in such languages...
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yes, that's exactly why they use Scheme, a language with barely any syntax at all and a very minimum native library.
"Microsoft is a lot closer to solving these two issues than people think. Microsoft has the best virtual machine with .NET, the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs. And they have a notion."
better yet: they have a monopoly! They can shove whatever they want down people's throats.
There's a good reason why MIT's introductory computer science courses are teach in the Lisp dialect Scheme: so that they can focus on teaching algorithms, modular design and other high level concepts rather than doing the grease monkey work of dealing with manual memory allocation and an old CPU design when the world quickly changes to a more parallelized approach.
hehe, just after posting this i realized why the need for OpenOffice? Do we really want kids to become automatous, office-dwelling creeps at this early age? save them the trouble and just throw a text editor and calculator...
ah! i guess it's better than Wordpad...
Strip it down. Throw Gnome or KDE and their memory-hungry associated daemons away and put a simple user interface upfront (FluxBox, XFCE), put in a good autonomous file-manager configured to proxy the right files to the right applications, make sure XMMS is fully loaded of plugins and is the only media player (light and lean) and give the kids some GIMP fun. Don't mind putting Apache, MySQL or PostgreSQL in there: kids are not likely to use them. If high-level scripting is really needed to run anything, just chose one out of perl/python/ruby, ok? Run as few services/daemons as possible. Save the memory for the inevitable resource hogs: Firefox (much lower) and OpenOffice (much higher)...
It'll fly like as if running on a dual-core...
There's a pretty good reason: by still selling the old IPs, companies can claim people downloading the games to play them on emulators are infringing on their IP and criminally prosecute and shut them down. Nobody really cares for old games on a new console. Perhaps on cell phones and other portable devices with tiny screen and hardware.
So, people genuinelly in love for the old games or historically curious can either:
* play them at their old consoles until they die;
* pay 8 bucks for each of them, regardless of owning a legal copy already or not.
Nintendo would crush all emulators if they could.
"A French Parliament member would likely stay in their home directory, not use the command prompt"
how is parent Insightful?! it's been ages since most desktop-geared Linux distributions shunned the CLI in favor of GUI integration and cleaniness, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Suse, you name it.
and BTW, French Parliament members don't touch a computer, they pay people to do data storage and retrieval for them.
"Their code is a mess"
any large codebase is a mess, especially ones written in ancient hierogliphic low-level imperative ideograms like C/C++. Just ask Windows Vista developers why it took so long...
the only good thing about proprietary software is that you are never able to see the horror yourself, since the code is closed...
more music, more money, more crap.
should be the Music Industry Inc's moto...
"I'm a bigtime Microsoft fan. Yes, there are some out there, and I am one of them. (Xbox, 2 Xbox 360's, 3 XP machines, mice, etc. etc. etc.)"
you forgot your pink spotted M$ underpants and M$ pillow...
Lisa is right on the money! but Paris Hilton?! come on! just because of her Slutware Linux distribution?!
"The future will have its' own agenda, and it might be completely opposed to our own."
chill down, dude. It's not like they want to kill their grandads and disappear from the time continuum entirely...
Yes, exactly: Final Fantasy Tactics 2 it is. Even character designs feel somewhat similar. The music composer is also the same, but truth be told, FFT Wagnerian soundtrack is much, much better! :)
just out of curiosity, is your desktop wallpaper depicting Mr. Goatse?
"With open source, there is no intellectual property. Anyone can use it and all your ideas become public domain."
he surely got some M$ love: it's the very argument they've been using in their lame "Get the facts" campaign. He must get up to times, since even M$ seems to be willing to get closer to Linux and open-source with the Novell deal and all.
and last but not least: open-source licenses rely heavily on copyright laws to work. no public domain really...
I'd go for quality of life: less coding, more freedom and some fun at the job.
Why would you want a job at a megacorporation in what will be probably a very stressful work environment and coding in one of those ironclad languages with layers upon layers of redundant abstractions and frameworks that in the end do exactly the same as ten lines of Perl?
money isn't worth it.
you know, there are people who can't decide by themselves if it's a trap or not. Hope you guys fight it out and help these poor souls about it. thanks.
"Why isn't this just one of those random genetic mutations everyone is always talking about? Why does it have to be the start/end of an evolutionary path?"
Let enlighten you about how evolution works:
Suppose this is just a random DNA mutation. Now, suppose this extra pair of fins caused by this random mutation gives this single dolphin a competitive advantage against his single-pair mates, sya, more speed to chase food, get away from danger or reproducing. If he has an advantage, it's likely he'll get on with passing his mutated DNA to his descendants, which likely will also bear the same advantage and so on.
Evolution isn't really a smooth path: it's much more like a stair-step thing. Some random mutation get you an extra pair of fins, no more no less. No intermediary steps in between. This is why it's so hard to get "proof" of evolution of human beings from apes or birds from dinosaurs: there's no inbetween really.
Unfortunately, though, for this dolphin fellow, his extra fins will prove to be an evolutionary dead-end, since the fame will likely get him in rich chinese or japanes fin soups... no advantage at all thanks to stupid shit-throwing apes.
* Super Metroid levels. any of them.
* Zelda dungeons. any of them.
* Sonic the Hedgehog levels. any of them.
there are probably more from my 20+ years worth of gaming memory, but none as striking as those...
I second that. I've been experiencing freezes daily as well, while 1.5 never had such issue, even on the new hyperthreading cpu. I run Firefox ever since phoenix 0.4 on Linux.
In my humble opinion, i'd like for you guys to quit the M$-way-of-life and go back to the speedy open-source development model. Quit this stupid 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 releases and go back to true meaningful double digit version numbers. Firefox 2.0 feels a lot more like Firefox 1.6.
We all know M$'s major number versioning actually labels beta software as major software updates and you guys seems to be following this trend... quit it!
"why rape is bad? Is it because it's inherently bad? Or is it because society says so?"
I believe the one being raped says so. Perhaps society says so because it takes this point of view in consideration rather than the point of view of those practicing it? After all, we humans always care for the victims...
though i don't doubt there are some freaks out there who would enjoy...
hello? eXtensible in XML techs is there for a reason, ok? If a browser doesn't understand a particular tag or attribute, it simple ignores them, like they've been doing for the past decades. Browsers which understand the meaning will provide a better experience.
It's not like people were getting a hard time with IE6, despite it's handicapped CSS handling, for instance.
Be prepared to another brazilian invasion. MySpace's already giving signs of being a huge hub of gossips, vulgarity, diffamation and other Orkut features. Though, of course, it's not a feature of the software, it certainly brings out the worst from people. It's like, suddenly, all imbeciles in the world were given their private TV broadcast channel to transmit their opinions and thoughts throughout the world.
:)
thankfully, it's easier to change the channel than on conventional TV, thanks to the multitude of channels providing much better content...
Sorry i was talking about infrastructure code, like, say, Visual Basic being written in C++ itself along with most other tools, libraries and whatnot. Quite unlike in the C-leaning Unix world...
"programmers design too"
;)
yes, of course! If for no other reason than to come up with a decent API and well thought-out reusable functions/classes/components/whatever...
"a lot of newbie programmers must be reading slashdot, otherwise you wouldn't be getting modded up to 4"
I agree. It was only a half-assed, provocative comment that was somehow perceived as the macho programmer bill of rights.
Although, like i replied to someone, and someone else also reminded, the patterns the book describes are truly only useful with imperative OO languages. Lisp/Haskell/ML guys are much better off with first-class functions, currying and others far more expressive techniques, whereas the design patterns should prove clumsy solutions in such languages...