Well that was kinda my point. There's quite a few people around here that hate Sun, IBM, SCO, Microsoft to an equally venomous degree. The kind of person that hears that Bill Gates breathes on a daily basis and instinctively starts holding their breath in defiance of his monopoly.
There was a young man who said "God Must think it exceedinly odd If he finds that the tree Continues to be When there's no one around in the quad"
"Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd I AM always around in the quad And that's why the tree Will Continue to be Since observed by,
yours faithfully,
God."
As a casual user of NetBSD, I'm interested in version 2.0 as it will have lots of new stuff that I really want (threading etc.) Can anyone enlighten me as to the expected release schedule for 2.0?
One reason might be that spammer's can't guess your email address by dictionary searching. Case in point: my wife set up an email account some years ago and used a name based on a "Peanuts" character. For various reasons she didn't use the account and I'm fairly sure she did not sign up for any mailing lists etc. so the name was not published. Then all of a sudden she gets 20-30 porn messages a day into the account, because some spammer decided to try
In the Whoniverse, this would suggest that herring are in fact natives of the planet Tersurus - the most kindly and peace-loving race ever encountered by the Doctor, but also the most shunned and abhorred species because they communicated by precisely-modulated gastric emissions.
'Oh no, the planet of the bottom burpers'
Of course, that's only relevant if you reboot frequently. (Please everyone, put aside the obvious/. meme about Windows and the BSOD). On the other hand, if you are talking about a couple of minutes per day to start work then it's comparable to, say, an extra toilet break.
I know nothing about Newham specifically, but the perception in many parts of the UK are that many local councils are not well run. It might well be that a half-decent audit would find potential savings whoever the sponsor and whatever the IT system in use.
My local authority caused a stink when it bought expensive laptops for all the councillors - because it was later suggested that these machines were hardly ever used. Small example, but such is local politics.
Also, and I mean no disrepect to anyone in local government IT in the UK, but it's not well paid compared to the private sector - there are plenty of PHBs I guess.
If it's "cool", perhaps it was something different and non-obvious. Perhaps it was innovative. Using the phrase cool and then comparing it to something as mundane as buying and selling stuff rather undermines the argument.
.. that it's internal and NOT part of the API. If I describe the internals of Linux device driver, warn you that that internals may change in the next release, but that the user won't see the difference, there's nothing bad about that. Same thing.
Sheesh people, save your thunder for when M$ really does something bad.
Unfortunately this view of the Septuagint has no direct historic evidence, so ultimately accepting it is an act of faith. It's true that the gospel writers were familiar with the septuagint, judging from the ways in which the OT is quoted. And it's an extremely valuable witness to the text alongside the Masoretic and other Jewish sources. But there's no way of *proving* that it's the best witness to the text.
Wow. You can afford to access slashdot, but can't afford a couple of bucks/pounds/euro's for a Pratchett? I'm stunned.
My local bookstore's kneehigh in paperback editions of LOTR.
Eh?
Even if we assume that the Masoretic text is "full of errors",how can we know? By comparison to older hebrew manuscripts - SOME OF WHICH WE HAVE. So, use the older fragements! Yes, use the Septuagint as one witness to the text, but don't throw out Hebrew texts, that's just plain daft.
I have read the article, and still don't understand why calling an instance member function d.GetWeekDay() is somehow to be deprecated in favour of GetWeekDay(d).
Making "set" methods instance but "get" methods static introduces an asymmetry in design which is surely confusing? And there is no difference in efficiency, I would guess.
I agree with part of the interview - i.e. overuse of O-O can be a bad mistake - but I'm lost on this one.
Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this
Hmmm. So what you're saying is "if you don't like this bit of reporting, don't read it". Quite bizarre. It may be biased/wrong or whatever, but you won't do yourself any favours by sticking your head in the sand. There are quite enough people who don't RTFA at the moment. Please don't make it worse.
Unfortunately, the trolls are taking over the BSD postings (or more correctly everyone else is abandonding slashdot bsd forums and leaving them to pleasure themselves in peace)
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Well that was kinda my point. There's quite a few people around here that hate Sun, IBM, SCO, Microsoft to an equally venomous degree. The kind of person that hears that Bill Gates breathes on a daily basis and instinctively starts holding their breath in defiance of his monopoly.
SETI ... Ug says SETI good ... Ug says Sun baaad
Sun
Oh no, Ug says make pain stop!
Yes, interesting factoid for the day! The UK is actually an independent nation that actually has its own laws! Gosh!
There was a young man who said "God
Must think it exceedinly odd
If he finds that the tree
Continues to be
When there's no one around in the quad"
"Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd
I AM always around in the quad
And that's why the tree
Will Continue to be
Since observed by,
yours faithfully,
God."
As a casual user of NetBSD, I'm interested in version 2.0 as it will have lots of new stuff that I really want (threading etc.) Can anyone enlighten me as to the expected release schedule for 2.0?
In the Whoniverse, this would suggest that herring are in fact natives of the planet Tersurus - the most kindly and peace-loving race ever encountered by the Doctor, but also the most shunned and abhorred species because they communicated by precisely-modulated gastric emissions. 'Oh no, the planet of the bottom burpers'
Given Clinton's antics perhaps it's important to know how often the Democrats go DOWN on us.
Anyone? Anyone? What next? Does anyone care where Dubya buys his underpants?
Technically we are celebrating the failure of a plot to bring down the government (King+Parliament) by means of an explosive nature.
moniker = (Slightly obscure) British English expression meaning "name"
Of course, that's only relevant if you reboot frequently. (Please everyone, put aside the obvious /. meme about Windows and the BSOD). On the other hand, if you are talking about a couple of minutes per day to start work then it's comparable to, say, an extra toilet break.
My local authority caused a stink when it bought expensive laptops for all the councillors - because it was later suggested that these machines were hardly ever used. Small example, but such is local politics.
Also, and I mean no disrepect to anyone in local government IT in the UK, but it's not well paid compared to the private sector - there are plenty of PHBs I guess.
Perhaps (IANAL) it is patentable.
Honestly this is not intended as a troll.
So, putting aside the syntax, this would be a little like coroutines or even WinAPI Fibers?
It's you
Sheesh people, save your thunder for when M$ really does something bad.
Unfortunately this view of the Septuagint has no direct historic evidence, so ultimately accepting it is an act of faith. It's true that the gospel writers were familiar with the septuagint, judging from the ways in which the OT is quoted. And it's an extremely valuable witness to the text alongside the Masoretic and other Jewish sources. But there's no way of *proving* that it's the best witness to the text.
Wow. You can afford to access slashdot, but can't afford a couple of bucks/pounds/euro's for a Pratchett? I'm stunned.
My local bookstore's kneehigh in paperback editions of LOTR.
Eh? Even if we assume that the Masoretic text is "full of errors" ,how can we know? By comparison to older hebrew manuscripts - SOME OF WHICH WE HAVE. So, use the older fragements! Yes, use the Septuagint as one witness to the text, but don't throw out Hebrew texts, that's just plain daft.
Obviously much more of a nerd than me. I still have no idea what that's all about.
I agree with part of the interview - i.e. overuse of O-O can be a bad mistake - but I'm lost on this one.
Unfortunately, the trolls are taking over the BSD postings (or more correctly everyone else is abandonding slashdot bsd forums and leaving them to pleasure themselves in peace)