In this case that isn't a corporate buzzword, but one with the adequate meaning, to convey a message with actual content. Let's not make the language poorer just because some stupid people don't know how to use it.
PHP is really getting better fast. When it gets good (not just with the features, but with a consistent (sub)set of them that is well written), it will be very nice.
You can make it at home, but an 800C furnance may be more expensive than you think (but still within reach of an individual). You'll probably no be able to do anything usefull with it (on a 3D printer or anywhere else).
There was a funny thing at Brazil. Our government did go through that route, created a governemnt CA, ordered governamental sites to use it, but didn't do the small step of offering the certificates free of charge. That way, governamental entities must do a full selection process (a 6 month process, with luck) to get a certificate that is valid for a year. Guess what, most government sites at Brazil use a self signed cert.
I'll second the people recommending you to buy some more RAM and turn off swapping. Also, you may have some background processes that are consuming memory, and should be used on such a low spec machine (Let's be fair here, 512M is low spec for a modern KDE/GNOME), like anti virus, torrent, or anything that shufles big amounts of data around.
Just upgrading your RAM to 1GB will make a huge difference. If you really don't want that, and have no process to disable, I'd recommend switching to a lighter desktop environment.
I really doubt RMS belives Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a useless strategy. What you are positioning yourself against is simply plain dumbness, I guess you'll have a hard time finding someone that disagrees with you on it.
Well, Oracle already did buy OpenOffice, and provided an answer to your question, so just take a look around.
By the way, if you are too lazy to look what the answer is, I'll give it to you. People would invent another brand, and fork Star Office^W^W ops, I mean, Open Office^W^W, ops again, LibreOffice.
I somehow can't agree with it, but can't also come with any counter example (and I doubt anybody actualy created one) to show you wrong. It is just that user interfacing doesn't need to be done with side effects (there is no fundamental reason for that need), but not using side effects is such a change that people (including me) can't grasp it.
In theory, the flow of logic languages fits way better the needs of user interface than imperative flow. Error handling, for example, is a bad fix for the inability of the imperative languages to have a more complex flow. Also, functional language is such a nice thing for the non-interface part of software, and the good news is that both mix very well. There is probably a very nice way to make real world software on a mix of logic-functional programming, it is just that nobody seems to know how that way is.
You are confusing external debt with public debt. It looks like China's government has a huge public debt, that is owned by chineese people. Also, China is a huge external credor, that means, chineese people (including governemnt) owns way more debt of foreign people (again, including governemnt), than foreign people owns chineese debt.
A government may issue public debt to remove money from the market and contain inflation. By the way, they only do that if they are serious about fighting inflation, what Cina doesn't look like doing. Now, their external reserves is mainly composed of debt the rest of the world (mainly the US) issued to buy chineese goods (and some for investing in China). China buys lots of US debt to keep the value of their currency low, to (at least they think) keep its industry competitive.
Most "business-critical" apps are promoted prototypes. That happens because people see the prototypes solve their problems now, and don't have ehough time/interest to wait for the fully working software.
And that is the reason most IT depts have to spend almost their entire budget keeping those duct-taped pieces from falling apart, and have no money to finish their prototypes. Thus, closing the circle.
Funny thing is, it does exist a solution for running IE6 on a modern OS, and doesn't even require a licensing fee (besides IE6 licensing, that those companies already have). The downside, it only runs on Linux.
It is quite hard to use nuclear weapons to create a police state. Now, controls on information technology, those are quite easy... I'd say, those are essential for a tyranny.
I'd wilingly pay for a Microsoft keyboard. And they used to make good mouses tough, altought I'm doubtfull about the new ones.
I wouldn't recomend their webcam, tough. My sister brought one, and it installed all kinds of weard things on her computer. Some people say they work great on Linux (I didn't test), but I can't recommend it for Windows users.
Nah... It just goes to show that ISO is usefull for coordinating standadizing efforts, but not for judging standard quality. That shouldn't be newsworth, since they weren't created to judge standards, just to create them. It only gets some importance because some countries started trusting ISO to do some job they never said they'd do, and codified that trust into law.
That said, I too got angry when they subverted ISO. But that was mainly because of the several clearly unlawful (and sometimes criminal) actions, like bribery, they commited and got away with. If they kept at ballot stuffing, I'd be way less anoyed.
Also, now that we have it clear that ISO just coordinates the standardazind, not judging them, we can finally switch to RFCs. (ISO just showed it is irrelevant.) I assure you that MS won't bribe any government to get a RFC approved.
"Remember yesterday's "games are too easy because they got popular and had to be dumbed down for the unwashed masses" thread? You really want that to happen to Linux?"
Yep, for a couple od DE's, used by a small amount of distros, I surely do. That way I can continue using the good distros, while having all the advantajes of companies not ignoring or actively fighting Linux users.
By the way, I didn't comment on that thread, but I like easy games...
Yep, piracy is a crime since the tyrannies of Modern Age decided that they should take control of the information available to the peasants. They decided that just after they discovered that there were some dangerous information generated by that new thing called "science", that could triger severe unrest at those peasants.
Ok, the paragraph above may not be completely correct. They decided piracy should be a crime shortly after something called "press" started spreading dangerous information through the peasants. The information itself is way older, and just its existence didn't make anybody act.
Judging by the bureocracy of other countries, I'd guess that there are lots of honest public officals in Washington. But their decisions are constantly reversed by their (political) superiors.
Ruby seems to be very good for small projects, so its presence may be more than a fad (but will hardly grow, at least until some fundamental advancements on the language). Here at Brazil, C# and PHP are growing fast. C# has a tendency to lead to failed projects*, and Java has already took over the servers, with nowhere to grow anymore.
* I guess that is more due to managers that spend huge sums of money on what they could get for free than about a bad language and environment. But I've seen people burned because of the environment too.
It is more that creative thinkers and concrete thinkers abhor working with people that doesn't think at all. But there are also some minor issues of each group with the other, it is just not the biggest problem.
They may well have contained MySQL, at the expense of making Postgres grow, and remember that Postgres is a real competitor to Oracle, while MySQL isn't. That can end up being the most important thing to reduce Oracle DB and MsSQL marketshare.
They surely didn't contain LibreOffice (Sun was more successful in it than Oracle), altough they may have a viable business plan to turn OpenOffice into a sucessfull closed source suite.
Now, they have no chance at all to contain Java. It is simply composed of too big a community, with too diverse interests. If Oracle doesn't play nice, it will be ignored, while the community migrates to some new "FreeCoffe" or whatever, created because of trademark issues. Also, Oracle has no chance of making a viable competitor out of their codebase, not even if they had the best talent on the market. If the community turns away, their JDK will be left incompatible with the entire toolset.
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In this case that isn't a corporate buzzword, but one with the adequate meaning, to convey a message with actual content. Let's not make the language poorer just because some stupid people don't know how to use it.
Also, starting in Win 95 Microsoft started bundling DOS with Windows, killing the DOS named products, and making quite a big fuzz about that.
PHP is really getting better fast. When it gets good (not just with the features, but with a consistent (sub)set of them that is well written), it will be very nice.
Yes, they do. You'd be surprized by the amount of CYA present on big hierachies.
You can make it at home, but an 800C furnance may be more expensive than you think (but still within reach of an individual). You'll probably no be able to do anything usefull with it (on a 3D printer or anywhere else).
There was a funny thing at Brazil. Our government did go through that route, created a governemnt CA, ordered governamental sites to use it, but didn't do the small step of offering the certificates free of charge. That way, governamental entities must do a full selection process (a 6 month process, with luck) to get a certificate that is valid for a year. Guess what, most government sites at Brazil use a self signed cert.
I'll second the people recommending you to buy some more RAM and turn off swapping. Also, you may have some background processes that are consuming memory, and should be used on such a low spec machine (Let's be fair here, 512M is low spec for a modern KDE/GNOME), like anti virus, torrent, or anything that shufles big amounts of data around.
Just upgrading your RAM to 1GB will make a huge difference. If you really don't want that, and have no process to disable, I'd recommend switching to a lighter desktop environment.
I really doubt RMS belives Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a useless strategy. What you are positioning yourself against is simply plain dumbness, I guess you'll have a hard time finding someone that disagrees with you on it.
Well, Oracle already did buy OpenOffice, and provided an answer to your question, so just take a look around.
By the way, if you are too lazy to look what the answer is, I'll give it to you. People would invent another brand, and fork Star Office^W^W ops, I mean, Open Office^W^W, ops again, LibreOffice.
I somehow can't agree with it, but can't also come with any counter example (and I doubt anybody actualy created one) to show you wrong. It is just that user interfacing doesn't need to be done with side effects (there is no fundamental reason for that need), but not using side effects is such a change that people (including me) can't grasp it.
In theory, the flow of logic languages fits way better the needs of user interface than imperative flow. Error handling, for example, is a bad fix for the inability of the imperative languages to have a more complex flow. Also, functional language is such a nice thing for the non-interface part of software, and the good news is that both mix very well. There is probably a very nice way to make real world software on a mix of logic-functional programming, it is just that nobody seems to know how that way is.
Lawyers defending Apache will probably be free.
And the entire world is embracing the US litigating spirit.
You are confusing external debt with public debt. It looks like China's government has a huge public debt, that is owned by chineese people. Also, China is a huge external credor, that means, chineese people (including governemnt) owns way more debt of foreign people (again, including governemnt), than foreign people owns chineese debt.
A government may issue public debt to remove money from the market and contain inflation. By the way, they only do that if they are serious about fighting inflation, what Cina doesn't look like doing. Now, their external reserves is mainly composed of debt the rest of the world (mainly the US) issued to buy chineese goods (and some for investing in China). China buys lots of US debt to keep the value of their currency low, to (at least they think) keep its industry competitive.
Most "business-critical" apps are promoted prototypes. That happens because people see the prototypes solve their problems now, and don't have ehough time/interest to wait for the fully working software.
And that is the reason most IT depts have to spend almost their entire budget keeping those duct-taped pieces from falling apart, and have no money to finish their prototypes. Thus, closing the circle.
Funny thing is, it does exist a solution for running IE6 on a modern OS, and doesn't even require a licensing fee (besides IE6 licensing, that those companies already have). The downside, it only runs on Linux.
It is quite hard to use nuclear weapons to create a police state. Now, controls on information technology, those are quite easy... I'd say, those are essential for a tyranny.
I'd wilingly pay for a Microsoft keyboard. And they used to make good mouses tough, altought I'm doubtfull about the new ones.
I wouldn't recomend their webcam, tough. My sister brought one, and it installed all kinds of weard things on her computer. Some people say they work great on Linux (I didn't test), but I can't recommend it for Windows users.
Nah... It just goes to show that ISO is usefull for coordinating standadizing efforts, but not for judging standard quality. That shouldn't be newsworth, since they weren't created to judge standards, just to create them. It only gets some importance because some countries started trusting ISO to do some job they never said they'd do, and codified that trust into law.
That said, I too got angry when they subverted ISO. But that was mainly because of the several clearly unlawful (and sometimes criminal) actions, like bribery, they commited and got away with. If they kept at ballot stuffing, I'd be way less anoyed.
Also, now that we have it clear that ISO just coordinates the standardazind, not judging them, we can finally switch to RFCs. (ISO just showed it is irrelevant.) I assure you that MS won't bribe any government to get a RFC approved.
Yep, for a couple od DE's, used by a small amount of distros, I surely do. That way I can continue using the good distros, while having all the advantajes of companies not ignoring or actively fighting Linux users.
By the way, I didn't comment on that thread, but I like easy games...
Yep, piracy is a crime since the tyrannies of Modern Age decided that they should take control of the information available to the peasants. They decided that just after they discovered that there were some dangerous information generated by that new thing called "science", that could triger severe unrest at those peasants.
Ok, the paragraph above may not be completely correct. They decided piracy should be a crime shortly after something called "press" started spreading dangerous information through the peasants. The information itself is way older, and just its existence didn't make anybody act.
Judging by the bureocracy of other countries, I'd guess that there are lots of honest public officals in Washington. But their decisions are constantly reversed by their (political) superiors.
Seems your economy was flexible enough to survive some extra 30 years...
Ruby seems to be very good for small projects, so its presence may be more than a fad (but will hardly grow, at least until some fundamental advancements on the language). Here at Brazil, C# and PHP are growing fast. C# has a tendency to lead to failed projects*, and Java has already took over the servers, with nowhere to grow anymore.
* I guess that is more due to managers that spend huge sums of money on what they could get for free than about a bad language and environment. But I've seen people burned because of the environment too.
It is more that creative thinkers and concrete thinkers abhor working with people that doesn't think at all. But there are also some minor issues of each group with the other, it is just not the biggest problem.
They may well have contained MySQL, at the expense of making Postgres grow, and remember that Postgres is a real competitor to Oracle, while MySQL isn't. That can end up being the most important thing to reduce Oracle DB and MsSQL marketshare.
They surely didn't contain LibreOffice (Sun was more successful in it than Oracle), altough they may have a viable business plan to turn OpenOffice into a sucessfull closed source suite.
Now, they have no chance at all to contain Java. It is simply composed of too big a community, with too diverse interests. If Oracle doesn't play nice, it will be ignored, while the community migrates to some new "FreeCoffe" or whatever, created because of trademark issues. Also, Oracle has no chance of making a viable competitor out of their codebase, not even if they had the best talent on the market. If the community turns away, their JDK will be left incompatible with the entire toolset.