Despite the complexities added, I think most tasks like word processing and information retrieval are made massively easier with computers. If you are old enough to have had to use a typewriter for papers, you know the difference.
Java is resigned to a niche market of server backends
Hardly a niche market, my friend. For consumers, perhaps, but for businesses this is and will be a huge need.
From the pinstripe webpage:
"The Pinstripe theme uses an API provided by Mozilla called nsTheme to draw the widgets. This API allows Pinstripe to draw the widgets and some backgrounds using the Mac's Appearance Manager. So the operating system draws most of the theme."
So, its somewhat native in drawing, even if not precisely like Camino (fully native widgets). The page says that Windows and Linux are not supported because of this.
Actually, the Pinstripe theme has achieved this for some time for Mozilla, and evidently will be standard from the next release on in Firebird. I care for native controls too, and we have 'em in Firebird.
No, it wasn't intuitive enough. The more commands that can be moved elegantly in the UI itself, and out of the right-click list, the better. A list may be handy, but it is not an elegant solution.
Um, Lydia Davis is fantastically good writer. Sienfeld is a sitcom. He got paid more, but that's because he works in a high-paying profession. Apart from a handful, writers have never ever been paid much, and hardly ever according to their worth. I am happy for her, and can think of few writers as deserving. She has created something far more substantial than a few good gags (and I am a big Sienfeld fan).
Not much to the article, and nothing about democracy. Social issues != democratic issues. Indeed, online game servers are usually run autocratically by the game company.
1) It would be cool in a movie, but in real life these things are true weapons. You can bring down electrical systems, stall trains, release sewage into the water supply. Real people can die real deaths because of these.
2) I think the possibility of low-level warfare is more dangerous than bombs. The cold war shows this: if you only have maximum response, then you will hesitate to use it. If you have lots of low-level responses (car bombs, plane hijackings, etc ) than it is easier to assault your enemy short of war. This is a totalitarian regime attacking their enemy without anybody raising their DEFCON levels. That is scary.
Hamas recently distributed a game where you assassinate Israeli leaders, lead suicide bombing missions, etc. Surely this is despicable. So, there is some moral line that can be crossed. The question is what the basis for that is.
In that case, it is blowing up innocents and getting points for it, something that is actually going on and immensely horrifying. The game itself is a recruitment tool. I think we would be justified in being disgusted at any such game, whatever the political position. A "MaiLai" game would be revolting to everyone.
If you are going to have a Vietnam game, then, you have to remove the massacres of civilians. Doing that risks whitewashing history. It is this whitewashing that is the question. I personally think it is bad, since there is no reason not to simply make up scenarios. The supposed "realism" that is the draw of such games is disingenuous if they whitewash the real context.
The GUI library (Qt) is already ported, so they just need to get it in shape and then fix the K apps to no longer use direct X11 calls. Then we too can have free alternatives to Office.
Turner explained himself further in subsequent posts. You simply need to follow the rules for LGPL in Java as in C (ie, package your app so that the LGPL library can be replaced simply). You state that: the LGPL works virtually the same as the GPL for Java code.
Certainly you can use the LGPL for C. Therefore, what is in fact true is that the LGPL works virtually the same for Java as for C.
I'm not sure you are right in the sense you mean. It does of course use QT, but I am not sure how much more "custom" QT on Mac OSX is than the Aqua widgets themselves, It is still drawn by Quartz, and thus gets the hardware accel. I could be wrong though.
It is, however, more native than running through the X11 server. I think this is really what they meant by "native."
Very true, but my understanding from the article is that Jordache and the USPA are trying to sell "Polo(TM) shirts", not "polo shirts by Jordache" I could be wrong.
It seems likely to me that they are doing this, not mainly to get people to buy the OS update, but to decide to buy a new computer. They price it high enough to make a new G5 seem reasonable.
From the link you provided, it looks like Lauren sued the USPA over its lisencing of Jordache's use of "Polo" as a clothing label. You imply he sued them over the word itself, which would be ridiculous. However, it is not unreasonable to argue that, while Lauren did not invent the term "Polo" in reference to a sport, he did establish it vis-a-vis clothing. Jordache's "Polo" line could seem to be a direct competitor, and thus an infringment.
No player-eating dragons or cities transported to the bottom of the sea. Just spamming a small bug which crashed some rooms for a few hours. The most fun was reading their strange blackmail missives on ProjectMagma.
They didn't have email back in the 18th century when Thomas Bayes came up with this statistical method. It is simply being applied to spam, but has been used for other more "useful" purposes as well.
Actually, I think spam is a major problem and not a trivial application of statistics.
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Despite the complexities added, I think most tasks like word processing and information retrieval are made massively easier with computers. If you are old enough to have had to use a typewriter for papers, you know the difference.
As usual, they have the full scoop. He did indeed take great initiative in creating the internet, but the statement is still awkward and self-serving.
Youve been reading to much Ayn Rand, my steely-eyed copper magnate.
Java is resigned to a niche market of server backends
Hardly a niche market, my friend. For consumers, perhaps, but for businesses this is and will be a huge need.
I think they mean "End times"
The fact that it is windows only is not great. Otherwise, I agree. It is the tool I use in windows environments.
From the pinstripe webpage:
"The Pinstripe theme uses an API provided by Mozilla called nsTheme to draw the widgets. This API allows Pinstripe to draw the widgets and some backgrounds using the Mac's Appearance Manager. So the operating system draws most of the theme."
So, its somewhat native in drawing, even if not precisely like Camino (fully native widgets). The page says that Windows and Linux are not supported because of this.
Actually, the Pinstripe theme has achieved this for some time for Mozilla, and evidently will be standard from the next release on in Firebird. I care for native controls too, and we have 'em in Firebird.
ftp is fine. Use ftp, and you're golden.
I agree, actually. I prefer the "click-and-wait" approach used in Macs.
No, it wasn't intuitive enough. The more commands that can be moved elegantly in the UI itself, and out of the right-click list, the better. A list may be handy, but it is not an elegant solution.
Um, Lydia Davis is fantastically good writer. Sienfeld is a sitcom. He got paid more, but that's because he works in a high-paying profession. Apart from a handful, writers have never ever been paid much, and hardly ever according to their worth. I am happy for her, and can think of few writers as deserving. She has created something far more substantial than a few good gags (and I am a big Sienfeld fan).
Not much to the article, and nothing about democracy. Social issues != democratic issues. Indeed, online game servers are usually run autocratically by the game company.
I think the word you mean is "authorial" not "authoritarian." Good comment otherwise.
1) It would be cool in a movie, but in real life these things are true weapons. You can bring down electrical systems, stall trains, release sewage into the water supply. Real people can die real deaths because of these.
2) I think the possibility of low-level warfare is more dangerous than bombs. The cold war shows this: if you only have maximum response, then you will hesitate to use it. If you have lots of low-level responses (car bombs, plane hijackings, etc ) than it is easier to assault your enemy short of war. This is a totalitarian regime attacking their enemy without anybody raising their DEFCON levels. That is scary.
Hamas recently distributed a game where you assassinate Israeli leaders, lead suicide bombing missions, etc. Surely this is despicable. So, there is some moral line that can be crossed. The question is what the basis for that is.
In that case, it is blowing up innocents and getting points for it, something that is actually going on and immensely horrifying. The game itself is a recruitment tool. I think we would be justified in being disgusted at any such game, whatever the political position. A "MaiLai" game would be revolting to everyone.
If you are going to have a Vietnam game, then, you have to remove the massacres of civilians. Doing that risks whitewashing history. It is this whitewashing that is the question. I personally think it is bad, since there is no reason not to simply make up scenarios. The supposed "realism" that is the draw of such games is disingenuous if they whitewash the real context.
The GUI library (Qt) is already ported, so they just need to get it in shape and then fix the K apps to no longer use direct X11 calls. Then we too can have free alternatives to Office.
Turner explained himself further in subsequent posts. You simply need to follow the rules for LGPL in Java as in C (ie, package your app so that the LGPL library can be replaced simply). You state that:
the LGPL works virtually the same as the GPL for Java code.
Certainly you can use the LGPL for C. Therefore, what is in fact true is that
the LGPL works virtually the same for Java as for C.
Nothing new, just more opinions. Using the corporate "formatting means expertise" method is not especially helpful, but it is clear and well-done.
I'm not sure you are right in the sense you mean. It does of course use QT, but I am not sure how much more "custom" QT on Mac OSX is than the Aqua widgets themselves, It is still drawn by Quartz, and thus gets the hardware accel. I could be wrong though. It is, however, more native than running through the X11 server. I think this is really what they meant by "native."
Very true, but my understanding from the article is that Jordache and the USPA are trying to sell "Polo(TM) shirts", not "polo shirts by Jordache" I could be wrong.
It seems likely to me that they are doing this, not mainly to get people to buy the OS update, but to decide to buy a new computer. They price it high enough to make a new G5 seem reasonable.
From the link you provided, it looks like Lauren sued the USPA over its lisencing of Jordache's use of "Polo" as a clothing label. You imply he sued them over the word itself, which would be ridiculous. However, it is not unreasonable to argue that, while Lauren did not invent the term "Polo" in reference to a sport, he did establish it vis-a-vis clothing. Jordache's "Polo" line could seem to be a direct competitor, and thus an infringment.
No player-eating dragons or cities transported to the bottom of the sea. Just spamming a small bug which crashed some rooms for a few hours. The most fun was reading their strange blackmail missives on ProjectMagma.
They didn't have email back in the 18th century when Thomas Bayes came up with this statistical method. It is simply being applied to spam, but has been used for other more "useful" purposes as well.
Actually, I think spam is a major problem and not a trivial application of statistics.