Bitingly insightful. It is as if the self-aggrandizing he is exhibiting is a backlash against a perceived lack of significance. I apologize if I'm stating the obvious here, but it hasn't really occured to me until you mention it, as it explains some of the ridiculous arrogance that seems common on the Internet.
Given how feature-incomplete the Google Office suite is in comparison to any desktop application, I don't see why this is even important. If this was some no-name web application, it wouldn't be a headline. The amount of hype being generated over the ability to run applications inside your browser through a mess of client side and server side interaction is absurd.
What is clear is we need a better platform for developing these sorts of applications, but AJAX and DHTML fails to impress me.
So could you explain to me exactly how the depth of one's explanation to a question posted on an Internet site is indicative of a better understanding of C?
The comments sure are defensive around here, but I can't really figure out why. I live and breathe software development, and I'll be the first to agree: software does suck. It bogs the user down with unnecessary details too often instead of just staying out of their way. Simplicity is rare, most user interfaces are made to be flashy, and memory/disk space requirements are often ridiculous, given the scope of the application.
People who complain that "today's music sucks" usually show themselves to be too lazy to research and find new bands that would be interesting to them. It is their loss. It takes a decent amount of time to comb through the huge amount of music out there and determine what you like. If you're not going to do it, then don't complain that you don't like what you're being fed on TV and radio. But it is a shame such tripe gets moderated up as if it actually means something.
I buy new CDs far too frequently, and when I go, I have to restrain myself from buying too many. My tastes are not what you'd call expansive, either. I listen to progressive rock mostly, with a little bit of pop and breakbeat thrown in for good measure.
Now, if the actual quality of music is declining, I'm sure someone can point us to a controlled experiment that indicates this.
There is nothing in WoW that even closely relates to Cheers. It is more like a microcosm of real life, right down to the fact that you have materialism is the dominating force in keeping people's noses to the grindstone. Regarding the author's specific points, I'd say the neutral ground argument is a bit weak, because players *are* obligated to play if they want to stop being called a "n00b" or other memes that spread like wildfire (I believe that 'nub' is all the rage as of late.) The leveler argument is totally incorrect: imagine if someone mentioned they were gay on public chat in WoW. I doubt they would be warmly received. In WoW, conversation is decidedly NOT the main activity, but something that grows out of the fact that WoW requires enormous amounts of time.
(Much of my disappointment with WoW is actually that of Internet. The anonymous nature makes it to easy to be unaccountable for what you say. Absent of real-world status, people feel like they need to invent their own even more inane class systems and base them off of incredibly superficial things, such as post count or how low your UID is, all because their little minds need a hierarchy.)
I wish I didn't have your mindset in high school or college. I could have made straight A's. But it is sad that people write off some learning as "mere memorization." Unfortunately, I was deluded into thinking that somehow I was *above* this sort of rote memorization that many other people did, so I generally slacked off in school, getting a B+. What I'm seeing now is that many things in life require tedious repetition to learn. The people that excel at them are the ones that put the effort in. Being smart merely means you have the capacity to understand it. Any sort of musical instrument, for instance, requires hours upon hours of practice in order to be played at a level resembling competance. The same holds true for athletes.
So do yourself a favor and quit telling yourself that memorization is bad. If this is hard to do, investigate yourself to find out why this is the case.
That's the sound of me laughing at everyone who believed that "do no evil" actually meant something. Guess what, they're out to screw you just like every other company!
Although I'm sure someone's going to come along and justify this invasion of privacy somehow, because we're talking about Google here. Take your best shot.
Perhaps I would, but I don't feel the need to apologize for the shortfailings of any operating system. I don't wish to evangelize or sit there and dissect the hardware to write drivers for it. I'll just use another card if I have to, or use another OS.
The OS is just a means to accomplish an end. Nothing more.
This example of blame shifting only further solidifies ESR's argument. People want things that work. They don't want to be told they chose the wrong wireless card or the MPAA doesn't want them to watch DVDs. If Windows is capable of doing these things, and Linux isn't, then the average user is going to assume that Linux is crippled in that regard.
I feel like I'm stating the obvious here, but it doesn't appear to be the obvious at this site.
But everyone knows that BitTorrent is primarily used for people seeding Linux ISOs and other highly legal things, so what sort of bad IP addresses are you referring to? I haven't ever had a problem with a client sending me malformed portions of the newest Ubuntu ISO.
I just pronounce it "gee-hey" and chalk it up to "kids who use words so often they had to invent alternate spellings to create the illusion of belonging to a subculture."
I love how people contest that it "just isn't fair" that IE starts up quicker than Firefox, when Opera seems to start up faster than both of them. Face it: Firefox has bloat in the form of XPCOM. They could have used native UI controls throughout, but nooooo, they had to go make their own 'platform' in the process.
Why should someone moderate the parent down? Because you don't agree with the way Win32 is designed?
Each application has 0 to N message queues, where N is the number of threads in an application. In other words, message queues are lazily created on a thread-basis. As for which messages get put in these message queues, that is up to the application programmer.
So are you going to advocate moderating me down for telling the truth as well?
I love how its marked flamebait instead of actually rebutted, as if to say, "wah, this isn't what I want to hear, so I'll just squelch you instead of re-evaluating my beliefs." It is sad how much dogma there is around here, but somewhat funny how much faith people have in OSS while at the same time finding it impossible to see how people have faith in a deity.
This is yet another article that I read the comments on and really can't understand what the problem is here. All I'm seeing is a bunch of idealistic bitching. Sorry, but the entire world is not going to bow down to Google just because you do. Everyone seems to forget about the whole business thing is also taking place. Competition is cut-throat, and moves such as these are standard operating procedure. There is no monopoly here other than the one you've created in your head: "wah, ebay is so popular, no one will go anywhere else!!!"
The reality is that companies don't embrace competition. I'm sure that strikes a chord with most of you because of the whole Microsoft thing (and I forgot the oh-so-witty-and-juvenile dollar sign for the s, didn't I?), but that is your problem, not mine. I really think that people are sort of projecting their Microsoft angst onto this.
As an aside, I have to wonder about some of the responses. Suppose someone walks up to you and says, "how was your day?" Do you respond by saying, "it was terrible, eBay banned Google Checkout from being used on their site! They are such a monopoly! It pisses me off so much! I'm sick of their anticompetitive practices, and Google said they'll be starting anti-trust lawsuits soon, so they'll have the last laugh! eBay is so evil!" If I was on the receiving end of this, I would have to chuckle. Surely, the person saying all this can't care *that* much about what two companies are doing, can they? It is *just* as superficial as getting worked up over celebrities bashing each other in the media.
I have yet to be impressed by a Java application on the desktop. Everyone cites IntelliJ as a great example of Java on the desktop. It makes me cringe when it has to garbage collect occasionally, pausing for a couple of seconds. (GC may be faster than manual memory usage over the long term, but if it stops the user from getting anything done, it is slower in their eyes.) It consumes, on average, two hundred megabytes of RAM. The interface mimics a native application, getting it wrong in several places. Several common keyboard accelerators just do not work.
We need better native languages, thats all. D looks like it could step up here and fill that gap.
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It is absolutely laughable that you equate the human rights movement with differences in how software is licensed.
Bitingly insightful. It is as if the self-aggrandizing he is exhibiting is a backlash against a perceived lack of significance. I apologize if I'm stating the obvious here, but it hasn't really occured to me until you mention it, as it explains some of the ridiculous arrogance that seems common on the Internet.
Given how feature-incomplete the Google Office suite is in comparison to any desktop application, I don't see why this is even important. If this was some no-name web application, it wouldn't be a headline. The amount of hype being generated over the ability to run applications inside your browser through a mess of client side and server side interaction is absurd.
What is clear is we need a better platform for developing these sorts of applications, but AJAX and DHTML fails to impress me.
How about we quit sending each other email in HTML? Then we don't have to worry about all this crap.
You forgot the point about "IceWeasel" being too good a name to pass up!
So could you explain to me exactly how the depth of one's explanation to a question posted on an Internet site is indicative of a better understanding of C?
The comments sure are defensive around here, but I can't really figure out why. I live and breathe software development, and I'll be the first to agree: software does suck. It bogs the user down with unnecessary details too often instead of just staying out of their way. Simplicity is rare, most user interfaces are made to be flashy, and memory/disk space requirements are often ridiculous, given the scope of the application.
Down with another Slashdot meme.
People who complain that "today's music sucks" usually show themselves to be too lazy to research and find new bands that would be interesting to them. It is their loss. It takes a decent amount of time to comb through the huge amount of music out there and determine what you like. If you're not going to do it, then don't complain that you don't like what you're being fed on TV and radio. But it is a shame such tripe gets moderated up as if it actually means something.
I buy new CDs far too frequently, and when I go, I have to restrain myself from buying too many. My tastes are not what you'd call expansive, either. I listen to progressive rock mostly, with a little bit of pop and breakbeat thrown in for good measure.
Now, if the actual quality of music is declining, I'm sure someone can point us to a controlled experiment that indicates this.
There is nothing in WoW that even closely relates to Cheers. It is more like a microcosm of real life, right down to the fact that you have materialism is the dominating force in keeping people's noses to the grindstone. Regarding the author's specific points, I'd say the neutral ground argument is a bit weak, because players *are* obligated to play if they want to stop being called a "n00b" or other memes that spread like wildfire (I believe that 'nub' is all the rage as of late.) The leveler argument is totally incorrect: imagine if someone mentioned they were gay on public chat in WoW. I doubt they would be warmly received. In WoW, conversation is decidedly NOT the main activity, but something that grows out of the fact that WoW requires enormous amounts of time.
(Much of my disappointment with WoW is actually that of Internet. The anonymous nature makes it to easy to be unaccountable for what you say. Absent of real-world status, people feel like they need to invent their own even more inane class systems and base them off of incredibly superficial things, such as post count or how low your UID is, all because their little minds need a hierarchy.)
I wish I didn't have your mindset in high school or college. I could have made straight A's. But it is sad that people write off some learning as "mere memorization." Unfortunately, I was deluded into thinking that somehow I was *above* this sort of rote memorization that many other people did, so I generally slacked off in school, getting a B+. What I'm seeing now is that many things in life require tedious repetition to learn. The people that excel at them are the ones that put the effort in. Being smart merely means you have the capacity to understand it. Any sort of musical instrument, for instance, requires hours upon hours of practice in order to be played at a level resembling competance. The same holds true for athletes.
So do yourself a favor and quit telling yourself that memorization is bad. If this is hard to do, investigate yourself to find out why this is the case.
It gets logged to the system's event log, which you can check out later.
That's the sound of me laughing at everyone who believed that "do no evil" actually meant something. Guess what, they're out to screw you just like every other company!
Although I'm sure someone's going to come along and justify this invasion of privacy somehow, because we're talking about Google here. Take your best shot.
Perhaps I would, but I don't feel the need to apologize for the shortfailings of any operating system. I don't wish to evangelize or sit there and dissect the hardware to write drivers for it. I'll just use another card if I have to, or use another OS.
The OS is just a means to accomplish an end. Nothing more.
This example of blame shifting only further solidifies ESR's argument. People want things that work. They don't want to be told they chose the wrong wireless card or the MPAA doesn't want them to watch DVDs. If Windows is capable of doing these things, and Linux isn't, then the average user is going to assume that Linux is crippled in that regard.
I feel like I'm stating the obvious here, but it doesn't appear to be the obvious at this site.
But everyone knows that BitTorrent is primarily used for people seeding Linux ISOs and other highly legal things, so what sort of bad IP addresses are you referring to? I haven't ever had a problem with a client sending me malformed portions of the newest Ubuntu ISO.
I just pronounce it "gee-hey" and chalk it up to "kids who use words so often they had to invent alternate spellings to create the illusion of belonging to a subculture."
I love how people contest that it "just isn't fair" that IE starts up quicker than Firefox, when Opera seems to start up faster than both of them. Face it: Firefox has bloat in the form of XPCOM. They could have used native UI controls throughout, but nooooo, they had to go make their own 'platform' in the process.
Why should someone moderate the parent down? Because you don't agree with the way Win32 is designed?
Each application has 0 to N message queues, where N is the number of threads in an application. In other words, message queues are lazily created on a thread-basis. As for which messages get put in these message queues, that is up to the application programmer.
So are you going to advocate moderating me down for telling the truth as well?
So much for claims that Java is "fast enough." :)
I love how its marked flamebait instead of actually rebutted, as if to say, "wah, this isn't what I want to hear, so I'll just squelch you instead of re-evaluating my beliefs." It is sad how much dogma there is around here, but somewhat funny how much faith people have in OSS while at the same time finding it impossible to see how people have faith in a deity.
This is yet another article that I read the comments on and really can't understand what the problem is here. All I'm seeing is a bunch of idealistic bitching. Sorry, but the entire world is not going to bow down to Google just because you do. Everyone seems to forget about the whole business thing is also taking place. Competition is cut-throat, and moves such as these are standard operating procedure. There is no monopoly here other than the one you've created in your head: "wah, ebay is so popular, no one will go anywhere else!!!"
The reality is that companies don't embrace competition. I'm sure that strikes a chord with most of you because of the whole Microsoft thing (and I forgot the oh-so-witty-and-juvenile dollar sign for the s, didn't I?), but that is your problem, not mine. I really think that people are sort of projecting their Microsoft angst onto this.
As an aside, I have to wonder about some of the responses. Suppose someone walks up to you and says, "how was your day?" Do you respond by saying, "it was terrible, eBay banned Google Checkout from being used on their site! They are such a monopoly! It pisses me off so much! I'm sick of their anticompetitive practices, and Google said they'll be starting anti-trust lawsuits soon, so they'll have the last laugh! eBay is so evil!" If I was on the receiving end of this, I would have to chuckle. Surely, the person saying all this can't care *that* much about what two companies are doing, can they? It is *just* as superficial as getting worked up over celebrities bashing each other in the media.
Show me a better IDE for doing native C++ development, and I'll switch. Nothing out there compares to VS2005 for writing C++.
Speculation is better than fact if it involves entities arbitrarily marked evil in a 13-year-old's worldview.
I have yet to be impressed by a Java application on the desktop. Everyone cites IntelliJ as a great example of Java on the desktop. It makes me cringe when it has to garbage collect occasionally, pausing for a couple of seconds. (GC may be faster than manual memory usage over the long term, but if it stops the user from getting anything done, it is slower in their eyes.) It consumes, on average, two hundred megabytes of RAM. The interface mimics a native application, getting it wrong in several places. Several common keyboard accelerators just do not work.
We need better native languages, thats all. D looks like it could step up here and fill that gap.
Ick, that should be "off," not "of." Looks like I need to get lunch.