Qt isn't available for enough platforms because it only runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Kindle, vXWorks, BSD, Solaris, Haiku, WebOS, OS/2, Tizen and AmigaOS? Anything that passes the "does it run on Amiga?" test is good enough for me.
It's sad but true. My wife works in the CS department at a major University, and I'm appalled at what they are churning out with regards to graduates. I know I'll probably get modded down and see the inevitable jokes about 'get off my lawn' and such, but it's really true. The vast majority of new programmers are more or less clueless aside from pushing out cookie cutter bloated code.
I think the real question is whether or not there's a long-term trend here. I wonder how many of us, who now have a great deal more experience, would have said the same thing regarding 1980's college freshmen.
Why make a contentious choice between bzr and git when we could implement a new, metalevel distributed revision control system that supports revision control across multiple revision control systems, each potentially running on multiple nodes?
Good call. I'll get started on the Emacs macro right away!
I think your list is highly selective. Assuming that this list is approximately correct, Christianity and Islam fare pretty well, historically speaking.
As far as I can tell from that list, a lot more killing has happened for non-religious pretenses than for religions pretenses.
If you don't find fault with that list, then I suggest you lay awake in bed fo a while tonight and re-examine some of your beliefs.
Also, one can do anything he wants "in the name of" some document or philosophy, regardless of whether or not it's actually consistent with it. For example, if I hear that you're not a fan of dogs, and so I kick a puppy in your name, does that suddenly make you a monster?
At least for Christians, it may be unethical to ignore bad copyright rules. In the Christian New Testament, St. Peter's first letter contains this passage:
"Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor."
A noteworthy thing here is that the letter carves out no exception regarding stupidly justified laws. (There are plenty of other places in the Bible that make it clear that it's okay for followers of God to disobey evil laws, however.)
Demanding authority and accountability means we need some standard, reliable source of truth to measure them against. Where do we get it from?
That doesn't sound correct to me. I think most persons realize they have to accept a lower standard, for the reason you give.
I think that the standard normally demanded is that a good-seeming knowledge vetting approach is consistently applied. With "good-seeming" being a combination of intuitively reliable and not producing many later-shown-false reports.
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Qt doesn't get out much beyond Win/Lin/Mac.
Qt isn't available for enough platforms because it only runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Kindle, vXWorks, BSD, Solaris, Haiku, WebOS, OS/2, Tizen and AmigaOS? Anything that passes the "does it run on Amiga?" test is good enough for me.
But can it run on Emacs?
It's sad but true. My wife works in the CS department at a major University, and I'm appalled at what they are churning out with regards to graduates. I know I'll probably get modded down and see the inevitable jokes about 'get off my lawn' and such, but it's really true. The vast majority of new programmers are more or less clueless aside from pushing out cookie cutter bloated code.
I think the real question is whether or not there's a long-term trend here. I wonder how many of us, who now have a great deal more experience, would have said the same thing regarding 1980's college freshmen.
Well, not to the extent that it approximates a Turing machine.
C++ stopped being a fully-humanly comprehensible language a long time ago. Might as well just add more crap to it like it's going out of style.
I don't know anything about ESR's recent history, but I learned a lot from reading his book, The Art of Unix Programming.
Good call. I'll get started on the Emacs macro right away!
I think your list is highly selective. Assuming that this list is approximately correct, Christianity and Islam fare pretty well, historically speaking.
As far as I can tell from that list, a lot more killing has happened for non-religious pretenses than for religions pretenses.
If you don't find fault with that list, then I suggest you lay awake in bed fo a while tonight and re-examine some of your beliefs.
Reliable citations, please.
Also, one can do anything he wants "in the name of" some document or philosophy, regardless of whether or not it's actually consistent with it. For example, if I hear that you're not a fan of dogs, and so I kick a puppy in your name, does that suddenly make you a monster?
I'll take a PC Nazi over a Mac Nazi any day.
You need to slow down and reread my post. Nothing in it is significantly contingent on whether or not the Bible is true.
Yes, I believe I did. Unless it's fair use. And I'm not a Christian ;)
At least for Christians, it may be unethical to ignore bad copyright rules. In the Christian New Testament, St. Peter's first letter contains this passage:
"Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor."
A noteworthy thing here is that the letter carves out no exception regarding stupidly justified laws. (There are plenty of other places in the Bible that make it clear that it's okay for followers of God to disobey evil laws, however.)
IIRC, U.S. courts recently decided that public-domain works could have their copyrights reinstated post facto.
If anything from Disney did ever accidentally enter the public domain, Congress would fix that in short order.
its called "confirmation bias" and we are all guilty of it.
I assume that's been reinforced by the cherry-picked psychological studies you've chosen to read.
Open your eyes to the psycho-industrial complex, man!
Demanding authority and accountability means we need some standard, reliable source of truth to measure them against. Where do we get it from?
That doesn't sound correct to me. I think most persons realize they have to accept a lower standard, for the reason you give.
I think that the standard normally demanded is that a good-seeming knowledge vetting approach is consistently applied. With "good-seeming" being a combination of intuitively reliable and not producing many later-shown-false reports.
You're doing that thing again, Other Barry.
I don't understand why he's not being charged with criminal fraud.
... I think I see the problem.
I see two problems.
Thanks, but I accidentally omitted a key detail: I want to be able to play when not connected to the Internet.
AFAIK, the PC-friendly versions of Kingdom Rush are all in Flash.
If it gets me a version of Kingdom Rush that I can play on my laptop, I'm game.
I believe you. I just wanted to make a tentacle porn joke.
don't confuse japan with china, you insensitive clod!
He's not. You're thinking of Tentacle Larry.
I wasn't trying to mock France. I just thought the similarity of their approach to cultural preservation was noteworthy.
Someone needs to tell these idiots that 1984 wasn't meant to be a manual.
If you mean the NSA, don't worry, they just got your message loud and clear.
What are they, French?