Mod up please RE google. Also I read a few blogs (sorry no references, look it up) about people moving away from Windows Azure because of ridiculously high costs for small/medium sized sites which are free on app engine! Hence some traffic coming from dotnet guys.
I am anxiously waiting to see how this fight turns out. I am going to start teaching some open-source tools and langs soon. Nothing closed, no Microsoft technologies. Harder, yes, but with App Engine the sky's the limit i think.
If their developers were actually good, they'd know that ActiveX is a dead, dead, dead technology-- dead to users, dead to developers, dead to its inventor. It's dead.
I'm curious, what would you advise clients about SilverLight???
...Lego shift the current block format a millimeter or so. That way it can cripple interoperability with mega blocks' products and further lock in customers. They can sell it as an innovation, saving money to their costumers with all the plastic being cut out. But that's just how we do it where I work...:)
I am so used to Free Software that such problems seem almost unbelievable.
Ummm, how does GNOME and HP droping it's plan
to use it sound to you? They dropped it because
the API changed too much. Sure GNOME 1.X still
exists but what level of support does it get?
Amazing how Newton's status has changed. In the early 70s the Cambridge Union Society actually sold off a copy of the Principia cheap (as the guy who beat me to it gloated at me at considerable length). They wouldn't do that nowadays when virtually every Latin edition is worth a great deal of money.
This reminds me of the auction where the notes
of newton or the first edition was sold for an enormous amount! Those people just don't get it do they. Newton's contribution to humanity is worth what? billions? trillions? better lives? better health? And the nice thing is that this knowledge is indestructible, which we cannot say about the first edition. If someone would deface the first edition it would be sad but insignificant. Open source anyone?
He did not "invent" or "discover" the thing by himself. It's li... (also complaing that geeks look up to Newton and Einstein)
Sure, he's just like you (or me) when it comes to science insight. It's all PR.
I'm not saying he should be deified (sp?), after all, he might had a bed temper, or was cruel to flys, but I can admire someone who has a special gift in the area of problem solving and understanding "stuff".
My current favourite posterboy is Poincaré who not only created a few modern math fields, but also had all the workings of relativity a few years before Einstein.
That's the (only) reason I install KDE. Fire up konqueror and go to "man:/somemanpage" and get a nice html page. A little weak on the hyperlinking tough. [[Well not the only reason i install kde, interactive geometry is also cool]]
Ever wonder how the Human brain evolved to its
current status of complexity? It was because of
the need to survive and outsmart eachother for
resources (food, shelter, females).
Please please mod parent up. I do not know if this
is general wisdom, but I have come up with these
exact ideas.
Here's another: I'm a vegitaarian, peace loving being -
or so I tell myself - but most of my
ancestors were the just opposit: cunning hunters and warriors. So me being here is a result
of many generations of carnivours!.
I am seeing a direct link between intelligence
and violence.
Whatever you do, please please don't use CM
(Computer Modern) fonts. In all due respect for
Knuth, what's the deal with that? And to
Tex/LaTex writers: have you heard of customisations? or are you just happy
somthing came out?
You might have the best text layout program
but what's the use when the results look
like amost any book by Springer-Varlag.
Blah blah blah, rant rant rant - I'm trying to ask whats the quickest
way to use Times...;-)
Sheesh, why mislead the poor guy? It's much easier:
soldeir all the odd leads, 1,3,5 etc to a
a thicker black wire, then soldier the even
numbered leads to a thick red wire. Next open the power supply box, find one wire colored GREEN-YELLOW, then....
Your program, on many compilers, will work just fine with void main(). On the other hand, printf() won't work unless you #include . Nice try at being snide though.
You did miss your's too. Only C++ compilers
would requier you to prototype (or c compilers using the right -w compiler switch). Were you thinking about, heavens, Visual C++?;-)
Mod parent +5 Funny. Just my opinion, no offense. Knuth is not Zapf.
Ithink that that thing (CM) was supposed to be a filler
until a real font was made.
Other then bad writers and high prices, the only thing that stops me from redeaing Springer Verlag books is CM. Just one word: Cambridge University Press.
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I am anxiously waiting to see how this fight turns out. I am going to start teaching some open-source tools and langs soon. Nothing closed, no Microsoft technologies. Harder, yes, but with App Engine the sky's the limit i think.
I'm curious, what would you advise clients about SilverLight???
Oh, i forgot it's 1AM in the US
please mod +1 funny
and if this zero-day was targeted at mysql? Please mod down parent.
Vista
Ooch! Uncalled for
Why is this modded 4 insighful?
You heard that, Miguel basher??
How do the GTK controls and form look on windows and Macs?
Has microsoft moved all of it's sites to ASP.NET?
I understand what you mean, but I would answer that question "yes, sure I can call someone who knows only language X a programmer".
It's like saying to someone who draws only with charcoal: you not an artist.
Not to trauuull, but KDE people: get over it, TrollTech just missed the the licsencing train by a few years. A good lesson to all s/w companies.
reason to download several gigs of things I don't use, such as emacs
Without emacs your computer will crash.
This reminds me of the auction where the notes of newton or the first edition was sold for an enormous amount! Those people just don't get it do they. Newton's contribution to humanity is worth what? billions? trillions? better lives? better health? And the nice thing is that this knowledge is indestructible, which we cannot say about the first edition. If someone would deface the first edition it would be sad but insignificant. Open source anyone?
Sure, he's just like you (or me) when it comes to science insight. It's all PR.
I'm not saying he should be deified (sp?), after all, he might had a bed temper, or was cruel to flys, but I can admire someone who has a special gift in the area of problem solving and understanding "stuff".
My current favourite posterboy is Poincaré who not only created a few modern math fields, but also had all the workings of relativity a few years before Einstein.
That's the (only) reason I install KDE. Fire up konqueror and go to "man:/somemanpage" and get a nice html page. A little weak on the hyperlinking tough. [[Well not the only reason i install kde, interactive geometry is also cool]]
That was funny.
Please please mod parent up. I do not know if this is general wisdom, but I have come up with these exact ideas.
Here's another: I'm a vegitaarian, peace loving being - or so I tell myself - but most of my ancestors were the just opposit: cunning hunters and warriors. So me being here is a result of many generations of carnivours!.
I am seeing a direct link between intelligence and violence.
You might have the best text layout program but what's the use when the results look like amost any book by Springer-Varlag.
Blah blah blah, rant rant rant - I'm trying to ask whats the quickest way to use Times ... ;-)
Sheesh, why mislead the poor guy? It's much easier: soldeir all the odd leads, 1,3,5 etc to a a thicker black wire, then soldier the even numbered leads to a thick red wire. Next open the power supply box, find one wire colored GREEN-YELLOW, then ....
you need to get one of these.
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You did miss your's too. Only C++ compilers would requier you to prototype (or c compilers using the right -w compiler switch). Were you thinking about, heavens, Visual C++? ;-)
Other then bad writers and high prices, the only thing that stops me from redeaing Springer Verlag books is CM. Just one word: Cambridge University Press.
Here is another great read, Larry on perl 6.