common users could always make webpages, html is extremely simple. Unless you mean visual editors, I don't believe I have ever seen worthwhile content produced in a visual editor.
Exactly. Bottom line is that open architecture is superior to closed architecture. x86 is actually a shitty architecture when you get right down to it, but at least it is open.
The transition to powerpc was not a change of architecture, it was an upgrade in architecture. x86 is an entirely different architecture with an entirely different instruction set.
Not to mention, the PowerPC processor is the only edge Macs have left on PC hardware. If Apple goes x86 the Mac will simply be an overpriced PC running a pretty gui on top of BSD.
The conversion was part of the same rage, he transferred that rage to keeping Padme from dying like his mother did. Did we mention the darkside? Every bad thing he does adds up like arsenic because he is Jedi.
Anakin had already killed women and children in Episode 2 after his mother died. The whole mother thing is what is driving him, he has been gritting his teethe the entire time through 2 and half movies now. Anakin was fucked in the head from the start.
If it were just an inner tormoil and emotion thing you would have a point, as jedi anakin was being corrupted by the dark side of the force.
'Do you apply this "Just because I have a brain that can perceive the suffering of others does not mean that I should." to humans as well? Are you a sociopath?'
Morally speaking, humans are no better than the other animals. Unless of course you believe in magic, souls, fairies, giants, gods, and so forth and base your morals upon them.
"so the argument that using a pointy stick or a rock (or any other weapon) to hunt is somehow "unnatural" doesn't hold water."
Indeed. The argument that anything humans do could be unnatural doesn't hold water. Humans are simply animals. Human animals have opposable thumbs and brains that are the result of evolution. There are other animals that are more capable than us in every area; speed (cheetah), bulk(elephant), strength(ape), vision(hawk), smell(dog), intellect(dolphin). These creatures are native inhabits of the planet Earth, they are the result of natural evolution, just like us.
I am not familiar enough with the details of PNG to say if it does or does not. But unless the PNG specification allows for extentions then adding one is a violation of the spec.
Some specs are designed to be extensible and some are not.
"The problem isn't software patents vs. hardware patents, the problem is bad patents vs. good patents. Despite the best efforts of the PTO, the current mechanism for filtering patents has collapsed. As a result, we are flooded by "bad" patents. True, most of these are software patents, but that's besides the point."
ALL software patents are bad patents. After software patents are eliminated, we can get back to working on the problem of bad hardware patents.
"GNU is NOT an entire OS. There is the Linux kernel which is maintained by corporate backing. That is not in the FSF's posession. (At least, the last time I checked.) Then there is the X11 system. Also supported by corporate backing and also not in the FSF's posession. Then there is KDE and GNOME which are not in the FSF's posession. By the time you whittle it down, you find that "GNU" consists of a wide variety of command line tools, most of which are standalone and have nothing to do with each other. The few complex pieces (e.g. GCC) again are supported directly by corporations."
Just to interject on a small point. The only thing you mentioned there that is part of the OS is the kernel. This annoys the hell out of me. An operating system is the software system that operates the hardware. An operating system provides the foundation on which you build a system usable by programmers or users, but it is NOT that entire system.
The rest are libraries and applications living in userspace. The linux kernel has had contributions from corporations but was and is primarily developed by volunteers. If you recheck your list you'll find out that most of the corporate contributors are just volunteers who are now getting paychecks (like Alan Cox). Corporate interests have helped to speed development of recent releases of the kernel but the kernel existed before them and could exist without them.
I would agree the FSF has not shown it could create a project as complex as java. However, the Free software community has developed solutions that are infinately more complex (like the Linux kernel). Actually even the first release of the kernel written by Linus alone was beyond the complexity of Java (although it hardly had the QA and stability of sun java).
There are numerous laws that are bad, wrong, blatantly immoral, and evil if anything is. Neither I, nor any other naitive born US citizen has agreed to the contract you speak of.
You and I are seperate people, I have no obligations or contracts to you. I have no obligation to participate in what you percieve as society in the manner you percieve I should.
"Don't say it isn't wrong. Say that your ends justify the means, but don't say the means aren't wrong. There is a big difference there."
No. There are a number of cases where the only moral action is violate the law. That is not mere justification.
Please, go back to your magic world of regulated morality. In my world the legal system defines the whims of corporations and the politicians they have bought and has no relation to right and wrong, moral or immoral.
If they spread word around, maybe at a Parliment meeting, they might have gotten the same results without starting a revolution. Treason, even for a good reason, is still treason.
Crime is not synonymous with bad, wrong, or evil.
Is anyone else reading a fork implication here?
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Did anyone else read this as, "java gods declare sun evil, fork and establish new and open authority to replace them?"
Something about the overall tone seemed to imply that they weren't just writing an implementation, but intended it to supercede Sun's closed implementation.
That is not true. Every little bit of evidence proves SOMETHING. For instance, witnessing the bishop move diagnally is proof that there are times a bishop is able to move diagnally. The only way your physics teacher is correct is if you require an arbitrary measure of breadth before calling what is proven "something".
In my example, you do not have to prove that is the only way the bishop moves, or that the bishop can always move that way. Science in fact requires that you do not assume those things. But even without proving those aspects of the bishops behavior, you have still proven AN aspect of it's behavior. Applying mathmatics is a part of science, not an alternative.
Believe it or not, some of us would like hardware advances to make stuff run faster, rather than be used as justification for design changes that require bigger hardware to attain the same speed. My pc stil can not keep up with me.
When you use a VHLL there is still an application written in a language that offers the flexibility and power you mentioned. That application is the same for every application written in the VHLL. If you move everything over to VHLL's you are not eliminating the potential for buffer overflows, your just moving them to a single point of failure.
It seems to have gone right over your head. Re-read his post with the assumption he knows what apologize and apologist means. He was making a tongue in cheek word play off the common root.
Because Borland is using and benefiting from open source software (including winelib) just like everyone else. It is sort of like defending a UN structure or the Swiss.
They leveraged their intimate knowledge of undisclosed OS features to gain an edge with MSVC. Granted it is not much compared with other anti-competative behavior MS has been involved in. You probably couldn't make a strong enough case to win in court on it, but I am sure borland would hate their #1 competitor without anti-trust issues.
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common users could always make webpages, html is extremely simple. Unless you mean visual editors, I don't believe I have ever seen worthwhile content produced in a visual editor.
I'll put up with Mice but you can keep your Microsoft.
Exactly. Bottom line is that open architecture is superior to closed architecture. x86 is actually a shitty architecture when you get right down to it, but at least it is open.
The transition to powerpc was not a change of architecture, it was an upgrade in architecture. x86 is an entirely different architecture with an entirely different instruction set.
Not to mention, the PowerPC processor is the only edge Macs have left on PC hardware. If Apple goes x86 the Mac will simply be an overpriced PC running a pretty gui on top of BSD.
The conversion was part of the same rage, he transferred that rage to keeping Padme from dying like his mother did. Did we mention the darkside? Every bad thing he does adds up like arsenic because he is Jedi.
Anakin had already killed women and children in Episode 2 after his mother died. The whole mother thing is what is driving him, he has been gritting his teethe the entire time through 2 and half movies now. Anakin was fucked in the head from the start.
If it were just an inner tormoil and emotion thing you would have a point, as jedi anakin was being corrupted by the dark side of the force.
You sir, are clearly a Novell guy. Or at least spent a significant portion of your admin growup experience in the Novell world.
'Do you apply this "Just because I have a brain that can perceive the suffering of others does not mean that I should." to humans as well? Are you a sociopath?'
Can you give a reason why it shouldn't?
"animals other than humans"
Morally speaking, humans are no better than the other animals. Unless of course you believe in magic, souls, fairies, giants, gods, and so forth and base your morals upon them.
"so the argument that using a pointy stick or a rock (or any other weapon) to hunt is somehow "unnatural" doesn't hold water."
Indeed. The argument that anything humans do could be unnatural doesn't hold water. Humans are simply animals. Human animals have opposable thumbs and brains that are the result of evolution. There are other animals that are more capable than us in every area; speed (cheetah), bulk(elephant), strength(ape), vision(hawk), smell(dog), intellect(dolphin). These creatures are native inhabits of the planet Earth, they are the result of natural evolution, just like us.
I am not familiar enough with the details of PNG to say if it does or does not. But unless the PNG specification allows for extentions then adding one is a violation of the spec.
Some specs are designed to be extensible and some are not.
"The problem isn't software patents vs. hardware patents, the problem is bad patents vs. good patents. Despite the best efforts of the PTO, the current mechanism for filtering patents has collapsed. As a result, we are flooded by "bad" patents. True, most of these are software patents, but that's besides the point."
ALL software patents are bad patents. After software patents are eliminated, we can get back to working on the problem of bad hardware patents.
"GNU is NOT an entire OS. There is the Linux kernel which is maintained by corporate backing. That is not in the FSF's posession. (At least, the last time I checked.) Then there is the X11 system. Also supported by corporate backing and also not in the FSF's posession. Then there is KDE and GNOME which are not in the FSF's posession. By the time you whittle it down, you find that "GNU" consists of a wide variety of command line tools, most of which are standalone and have nothing to do with each other. The few complex pieces (e.g. GCC) again are supported directly by corporations."
Just to interject on a small point. The only thing you mentioned there that is part of the OS is the kernel. This annoys the hell out of me. An operating system is the software system that operates the hardware. An operating system provides the foundation on which you build a system usable by programmers or users, but it is NOT that entire system.
The rest are libraries and applications living in userspace. The linux kernel has had contributions from corporations but was and is primarily developed by volunteers. If you recheck your list you'll find out that most of the corporate contributors are just volunteers who are now getting paychecks (like Alan Cox). Corporate interests have helped to speed development of recent releases of the kernel but the kernel existed before them and could exist without them.
I would agree the FSF has not shown it could create a project as complex as java. However, the Free software community has developed solutions that are infinately more complex (like the Linux kernel). Actually even the first release of the kernel written by Linus alone was beyond the complexity of Java (although it hardly had the QA and stability of sun java).
"This tripe gets modded Insightful?"
Do you consider that a valid alternative when you have no counter-argument?
There are numerous laws that are bad, wrong, blatantly immoral, and evil if anything is. Neither I, nor any other naitive born US citizen has agreed to the contract you speak of.
You and I are seperate people, I have no obligations or contracts to you. I have no obligation to participate in what you percieve as society in the manner you percieve I should.
"Don't say it isn't wrong. Say that your ends justify the means, but don't say the means aren't wrong. There is a big difference there."
No. There are a number of cases where the only moral action is violate the law. That is not mere justification.
Please, go back to your magic world of regulated morality. In my world the legal system defines the whims of corporations and the politicians they have bought and has no relation to right and wrong, moral or immoral.
Ok, this dude is browsing the web on a system with valuable data. Attention all hackers!!!!
If they spread word around, maybe at a Parliment meeting, they might have gotten the same results without starting a revolution. Treason, even for a good reason, is still treason.
Crime is not synonymous with bad, wrong, or evil.
Did anyone else read this as, "java gods declare sun evil, fork and establish new and open authority to replace them?"
Something about the overall tone seemed to imply that they weren't just writing an implementation, but intended it to supercede Sun's closed implementation.
Sounds good really.
That is not true. Every little bit of evidence proves SOMETHING. For instance, witnessing the bishop move diagnally is proof that there are times a bishop is able to move diagnally. The only way your physics teacher is correct is if you require an arbitrary measure of breadth before calling what is proven "something".
In my example, you do not have to prove that is the only way the bishop moves, or that the bishop can always move that way. Science in fact requires that you do not assume those things. But even without proving those aspects of the bishops behavior, you have still proven AN aspect of it's behavior. Applying mathmatics is a part of science, not an alternative.
Believe it or not, some of us would like hardware advances to make stuff run faster, rather than be used as justification for design changes that require bigger hardware to attain the same speed. My pc stil can not keep up with me.
When you use a VHLL there is still an application written in a language that offers the flexibility and power you mentioned. That application is the same for every application written in the VHLL. If you move everything over to VHLL's you are not eliminating the potential for buffer overflows, your just moving them to a single point of failure.
It seems to have gone right over your head. Re-read his post with the assumption he knows what apologize and apologist means. He was making a tongue in cheek word play off the common root.
That puts you in the technical elite when compared with the average user.
Because Borland is using and benefiting from open source software (including winelib) just like everyone else. It is sort of like defending a UN structure or the Swiss.
They leveraged their intimate knowledge of undisclosed OS features to gain an edge with MSVC. Granted it is not much compared with other anti-competative behavior MS has been involved in. You probably couldn't make a strong enough case to win in court on it, but I am sure borland would hate their #1 competitor without anti-trust issues.
Actually Microsoft wrote very little of Microsoft Windows. Generally Microsoft buys technology others have innovated rather than building their own.