Presumably many libraries will be for domains that don't even exist yet. If SETI@home works, for example, we'll need libraries for communicating with aliens. Unless of course they are sufficiently advanced that they already communicate in XML.
Let's hope it's not Microsoft's XML, because that could cause a problem with communication:they might say "We come in peace" and start shooting at us with lasers and everything!
1. Ditch C# and VB as the back-end for ASP.NET code and use Brainf*ck, whitespace and/or Intercal instead
2. Rewrite Office in Lisp
3. Rewrite Windows in Haskell
4. Get into nuclear submarine business: with global warming and North Pole melting, PS (personnal submarine) will surely prove to be a great way to make money
Yeah, PHP would really help. I mean, not much fun seeing a Python program in console, while a kid could really enjoy seeing his own program on the web.
Right now, spammers send billions of spam each day! Imagine how much it would cost them to send one billion emails if an e-stamp costs, let's say, 0.01$ (one cent). That's $10,000,000 each day to send the same ammount of spam. Don't you think the number of spam in your inbox would be lower?
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- no Emacs
Imagine no GNU/Emacs
I wonder if you can
No need for more ram
A brotherhood if vi
Imagine all the people
Editing with Vim
Spam is a business. Like all business I know, its fuel is money. When spam stops being profitable, it will probably stop being so much a problem. Most geeks, nerds and hackers know how to recognize spam a mile away and most of us have spam filters installed, but common users do not. We need to help them by explaining them how spam works, by installing them filters (PopFile is an excellent free one on Windows and other platforms).
Just make sure as much people in your neighborhood never see spam, and after a while spamming will not be as much as a problem as it is right now.
Informing the common computer users is the first step.
I have high hopes for Arc. Paul Graham knows that hackers like the practical side of Perl and Python, but he also knows that just replicating them won't get anywhere. Instead, a Lisp dialect that is highly practical makes me hard instantly!
Do you really think that 93% of all end-users are masochists?
No, but I'm pretty sure that a good 70% of that mass:
a) doesn't know enough about computers to make a switch to Linux
b) thinks Apple computers are much more expensive than PC's
c) stick with what comes with the computer (a bit like most people do with cars)
I'm pretty sure if a nice easy to use Linux distribution (Knoppix, XandrOS, etc.) was installed by default on all HP/Compaq computers, more people would use Linux and stick with it, because it comes with the machine they bought.
You know when people say "But, Linux costs nothing... how good can it be?"
Well, thanks to this study, Linux now costs more, so we can say "Excuse me, but Linux is more expensive than Microsoft Windows 2000, so it *has* to be better, duh!"
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Presumably many libraries will be for domains that don't even exist yet. If SETI@home works, for example, we'll need libraries for communicating with aliens. Unless of course they are sufficiently advanced that they already communicate in XML.
Let's hope it's not Microsoft's XML, because that could cause a problem with communication:they might say "We come in peace" and start shooting at us with lasers and everything!
Steal Slashcode, but add a functionality to prevent dupes?
1. Ditch C# and VB as the back-end for ASP.NET code and use Brainf*ck, whitespace and/or Intercal instead 2. Rewrite Office in Lisp 3. Rewrite Windows in Haskell 4. Get into nuclear submarine business: with global warming and North Pole melting, PS (personnal submarine) will surely prove to be a great way to make money
Yeah, PHP would really help. I mean, not much fun seeing a Python program in console, while a kid could really enjoy seeing his own program on the web.
I say we should all support Microsoft going Open Source, I'm getting pretty tense here!
Right now, spammers send billions of spam each day! Imagine how much it would cost them to send one billion emails if an e-stamp costs, let's say, 0.01$ (one cent). That's $10,000,000 each day to send the same ammount of spam. Don't you think the number of spam in your inbox would be lower?
Imagine no GNU/Emacs
I wonder if you can
No need for more ram
A brotherhood if vi
Imagine all the people
Editing with Vim
That would explain the smell and the hair...
Is there a leftover of the manure or does it completely become methane?
Just make sure as much people in your neighborhood never see spam, and after a while spamming will not be as much as a problem as it is right now.
Informing the common computer users is the first step.
The winning combination for the $10 million lotto prize when you turn 18 is: 627129
I have high hopes for Arc. Paul Graham knows that hackers like the practical side of Perl and Python, but he also knows that just replicating them won't get anywhere. Instead, a Lisp dialect that is highly practical makes me hard instantly!
Do you really think that 93% of all end-users are masochists? No, but I'm pretty sure that a good 70% of that mass: a) doesn't know enough about computers to make a switch to Linux b) thinks Apple computers are much more expensive than PC's c) stick with what comes with the computer (a bit like most people do with cars) I'm pretty sure if a nice easy to use Linux distribution (Knoppix, XandrOS, etc.) was installed by default on all HP/Compaq computers, more people would use Linux and stick with it, because it comes with the machine they bought.
You know when people say "But, Linux costs nothing... how good can it be?"
Well, thanks to this study, Linux now costs more, so we can say "Excuse me, but Linux is more expensive than Microsoft Windows 2000, so it *has* to be better, duh!"
Don't you want to know if Ellen Feiss goes *BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP* when she has an orgasm?