But when I can write something in.NET in 5 minutes and have it execute on all the platforms I running, I sometimes have to make a deal with the devil and go with Microsoft.
I keep hearing people say that.NET is cross-platform. I don't get it. I understand you can do some cross-platform stuff with Mono and dotGNU, but anything with a GUI is inextricable tied to Windows. Downloading and installing Sun's JDK just to run an application is a major pain, but at least it's feasible. Getting your GUI client written in.NET to run on my platform is impossible.
Has the previous hype of Java and J2EE moved on to Ruby (on Rails) and Python?
No, the hype has moved on to C# and.NET. The religiosity people have towards Microsoft's semi-proprietary technology is definitely reminiscent of the 1990's Java hype. Especially among management (who think they've finally found the silver bullet).
I don't blame people for getting excited over.NET, because compared to MFC and traditional COM, it's a wonderful thing. But many people are going overboard on it.
That's part of the point right there. Why should you need a full blown script (which itself frequently breaks) when most every other project can get by with a half page README file?
No, I mean it's harder for a casual reader to spot mistakes and experts to verify that they are indeed mistakes. Get the orbital period of Pluto wrong, and it's easy to correct. Accuse someone of plotting to assassinate Kennedy, and it takes a major expose in the blogosphere to fix.
You used the word "we". Does this mean you a member of the X.org team? If so, where was the announcement for the non-Linux, non-Solaris community to get involved with testing? I didn't see any.
I love Open Source, but it is being held back by the attitude that the user must actively contribute code or be an undeserving freeloader. There's fifteen million projects out there, how the hell is anyone supposed to contribute to all of them?
Great. You guys go trash talk him, calling him a "sellout" and implying that he's been bought and paid for by the MPAA. Now that he thinks the opposition are a bunch of geeks with no social skills, who else can we turn to?
Sometimes I think we get the government we deserve...
It's not hard because there are dozens of Debian maintainers feverishly working day and night to keep it from breaking.
Try building GNOME from scratch, just like one of those Debian maintainers. Now compare that nightmare to anything else. Compare it to building KDE, or GCC, or Emacs, or a custom kernel, or X.org, etc.
Your link is comparing 42 science articles. Science is extremely objective. Wikipedia editors are predominantly geeks, and geeks love science. So it comes as no surprise that Wikipedia has only 25% more errors than the Encyclopedia Brittanica. But how does it rate for non-science articles? How does it rate for politics, biographies, literature, etc? Recent controversies over Wikipedia have been in regards to biographies, not science articles.
Does that chip on your shoulder interfer with your peripheral vision? I'm just asking, because people harshly criticize the US government everyday and get away with it. Don't let your fantasies interfer with your reality.
Hollywood has been adapting books since day one. Duh. The biggest movie of all time was a film adaption of a book. This isn't anything new, and it isn't anything wrong.
One-on-one physical violence upsets people. The bloodless eradication of millions that we don't have to face does not.
I can't believe how blind some people are.
The reason blowing up Alderaan didn't upset people is that NO ONE SAW ANYONE DIE! DUH! All we saw was an explosion out in space. We didn't get upset at the physical violence because there wasn't any. A narrator could have said "and then Alderaan blew up" and it would have been the same.
Don't try to make it seem as if humans are less sensitive to mass murder than to slapping a princess about in her cell, that's stupid. If Lucas wanted Star Wars to get an X/NC-17 rating, all he had to do was film a five minute slow motion death scene of some poor schmuck on Alderaan exploding and boiling away.
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WTF?
It's easy to understand. Whatever the US does, it is wrong. Always. Just remember that and you will get along just fine.
You'll have to pardon me. I'm still getting used to this NewSpeak the .NET advocates talk in.
But when I can write something in .NET in 5 minutes and have it execute on all the platforms I running, I sometimes have to make a deal with the devil and go with Microsoft.
.NET is cross-platform. I don't get it. I understand you can do some cross-platform stuff with Mono and dotGNU, but anything with a GUI is inextricable tied to Windows. Downloading and installing Sun's JDK just to run an application is a major pain, but at least it's feasible. Getting your GUI client written in .NET to run on my platform is impossible.
I keep hearing people say that
Has the previous hype of Java and J2EE moved on to Ruby (on Rails) and Python?
.NET. The religiosity people have towards Microsoft's semi-proprietary technology is definitely reminiscent of the 1990's Java hype. Especially among management (who think they've finally found the silver bullet).
.NET, because compared to MFC and traditional COM, it's a wonderful thing. But many people are going overboard on it.
No, the hype has moved on to C# and
I don't blame people for getting excited over
That's part of the point right there. Why should you need a full blown script (which itself frequently breaks) when most every other project can get by with a half page README file?
If Wikipedia has errors, fix the errors or pay someone to do so for you.
And thus we're back to the old tired chant of "it's the damn user's fault!" Gee, and people wonder why Wikipedia doesn't get any respect...
No, I mean it's harder for a casual reader to spot mistakes and experts to verify that they are indeed mistakes. Get the orbital period of Pluto wrong, and it's easy to correct. Accuse someone of plotting to assassinate Kennedy, and it takes a major expose in the blogosphere to fix.
Whatever. The point is that Wikipedia has too many errors and doesn't seem the least bit concerned about it.
You used the word "we". Does this mean you a member of the X.org team? If so, where was the announcement for the non-Linux, non-Solaris community to get involved with testing? I didn't see any.
I love Open Source, but it is being held back by the attitude that the user must actively contribute code or be an undeserving freeloader. There's fifteen million projects out there, how the hell is anyone supposed to contribute to all of them?
Great. You guys go trash talk him, calling him a "sellout" and implying that he's been bought and paid for by the MPAA. Now that he thinks the opposition are a bunch of geeks with no social skills, who else can we turn to?
Sometimes I think we get the government we deserve...
It's not hard because there are dozens of Debian maintainers feverishly working day and night to keep it from breaking.
Try building GNOME from scratch, just like one of those Debian maintainers. Now compare that nightmare to anything else. Compare it to building KDE, or GCC, or Emacs, or a custom kernel, or X.org, etc.
Your link is comparing 42 science articles. Science is extremely objective. Wikipedia editors are predominantly geeks, and geeks love science. So it comes as no surprise that Wikipedia has only 25% more errors than the Encyclopedia Brittanica. But how does it rate for non-science articles? How does it rate for politics, biographies, literature, etc? Recent controversies over Wikipedia have been in regards to biographies, not science articles.
... while companies like IBM (AIX) and HP (TRU64/HPUX and VMS) are funding this project.
Which is sad, because it won't support AIX, TRU64, HPUX or VMS.
Small world then, because I happen to know two of them.
Please show some respect! The proper name is "GNU/X11R7.0".
It's even worse than that, because this new release ONLY supports Linux and Solaris.
...instead of having to release binaries of the entire X11 system.
Huh? What have you been smoking. No one has EVER had to do this.
The flip side of the coin is to put everything into the Linux kernel... and then X will only be usable under Linux.
And unless they synchronize their releases, also expect a GNOME-like dependency hell trying to build it all.
"X11R7.0 supports Linux and Solaris at this time, with other support pending."
Talk about a HUGE step backwards! X11R6.x supports dozens of platforms. X11R7 supports only two. What a shame.
Aren't anonymous comments supposed NOT to have any validity?
What makes anonymous comments any less relevent than anonymous sources, the latter having actually toppled a presidency once upon a time.
Does that chip on your shoulder interfer with your peripheral vision? I'm just asking, because people harshly criticize the US government everyday and get away with it. Don't let your fantasies interfer with your reality.
Hollywood has been adapting books since day one. Duh. The biggest movie of all time was a film adaption of a book. This isn't anything new, and it isn't anything wrong.
One-on-one physical violence upsets people. The bloodless eradication of millions that we don't have to face does not.
I can't believe how blind some people are.
The reason blowing up Alderaan didn't upset people is that NO ONE SAW ANYONE DIE! DUH! All we saw was an explosion out in space. We didn't get upset at the physical violence because there wasn't any. A narrator could have said "and then Alderaan blew up" and it would have been the same.
Don't try to make it seem as if humans are less sensitive to mass murder than to slapping a princess about in her cell, that's stupid. If Lucas wanted Star Wars to get an X/NC-17 rating, all he had to do was film a five minute slow motion death scene of some poor schmuck on Alderaan exploding and boiling away.
Sorry to disappoint you, but your signature is a myth. It is a piece of invented fiction. He never said that.