If it was, then Gates would have donated the money anonymously, and he wouldn't be going out of his way to publicize it. I'm not saying that this is only about publicity, but you can't deny that it's an important consideration.
Oh, come on, there's no such thing. This crowd can't even agree on what text editor to use.
Just because there are people who disagree with you, doesn't make you into some kind of martyred hero of free speech. And complaining about 'bias' and a lack of 'objectivity' won't win people over to your side, it only makes you sound like a spoiled whiner.
Why is it that every time someone mentions prison on/., they feel obligated to include a reference to the ass-fucking that presumably takes place there? I'm not trying to single you out here, just commenting on what I perceive to be a persistent trend.
I don't code in java so my only experience with it is through applications.
Desktop apps are definitely Java's weakest point. (I should know, I've written a couple of them.) This is a problem with the GUI libraries, not with the language, or the core libraries, or the Java programmers. Unfortunately, a lot of people only think of Java in terms of desktop apps. This right there is the main reason why Java still has such a bad reputation.
The problem aside from Swing of using Java for UI work is the tools are wretched.
The GUI editor in NetBeans is pretty nice. Of course, it doesn't fix any of the inherent problems of Swing, but it just might make you forget them for a little while.
In Java, when you allocate an object, you have no control over when it gets deallocated,
You have some control, just not much. But why exactly is this a problem? If you're done using an object, the garbage collector takes care of it; why should you care when exactly it gets deallocated? If your object is holding onto some resource that needs to get released ASAP, then you add a method which releases that resource - there's no need to deallocate the object.
and you have no guaranteed way of performing some action just before it does.
That's absolutely wrong: you can override finalize(). (BTW, I write Java code for a living, and I can't even remember the last time I actually had to do that. Most of the time, the JVM and the core libraries take care of any clean-up automatically.)
Which is more American - free, government-developed, open-source software, or software that someone made a fortune on
In this particular case, it's irrelevant. Chances are that the government will still be contracting the work out to private companies. Why do people automatically assume that nobody ever gets paid to write open-source software?
The record holder (pun intended) is 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Oh, that's nothing. A friend of mine once managed to string one of them along for 6 or 7 hours. He was painting an apartment while the owners were away, so he had no use for the phone anyhow. If you have multiple phone lines - all the better.
Most telemarketers are required by company policy to stay on the line until they make a sale or the victim hangs up - they're completely powerless to stop this. Especially if you say something like "Yeah, let me just find my credit card."
In case any telemarketers want to know: YES, I do advocate this sort of behavior, and NO, I don't feel the least bit guilty about cutting into your earnings. There's plenty of honest ways to make a living.
Another tip-off: they completely ignore the recent revival of "Dr. Who". Hell, if they didn't like the new series as much, that would have been one thing, but I suspect they'd just never even heard of it. If it's not shown in the US, it doesn't exist.
Then again, you'd be crazy to expect too much from this sort of 'aticle'. It was probably put together at the last minute by some overworked intern.
A word of warning: if you're setting up an svn repository, DO NOT use the default backing store (which is based on Berkeley DB); use the FSFS backing store. Otherwise, you could get the exact thing that you're trying to avoid - that is, losing all your data. This has been a known problem for a while - it's the reason they introduced the FSFS option.
Other than that, I think svn is a pretty good product.
To expect them to become scientific experts, as well as journalistic masters and mistresses, is somewhat extreme.
Lets say you hire someone to write about baseball. You wouldn't expect him (yeah, I did say 'him': most women have better things to do with their lives) to actually play the game at a Major-League level, but you would expect him to have a command of certain basic knowledge, like, for example, the rules of the game. What the article is saying (and I completely agree) is that this expectation is not generally enforced for science and technology journalism.
"Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future."
I tried baiting a mousetrap with tofu once, just as an experiment. Little fuckers completely ignored it. We caught a lot of them with Gorgonzola, though.
If you want to be taken seriously in a serious world, you have to play by those rules.
I'd rather be taken seriously by people who aren't afraid to think for themselves. I realize that the people you refer to as "serious" are in the majority and that they hold a lot of power, and we all have to make compromises just to get by - but if nobody stands up to them, they'll just keep making MORE stupid rules.
Now you may call me an idiot again
I never called you an idiot. But I might be persuaded to change my opinion.
People who judge a software product by its name are idiots. Simple as that. Why should I, or anyone else, care what they think? And if you happen to be working for people like that, then you have my sincere condolences, but don't blame Linux developers for it.
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this is philanthropy, pure and simple
If it was, then Gates would have donated the money anonymously, and he wouldn't be going out of his way to publicize it. I'm not saying that this is only about publicity, but you can't deny that it's an important consideration.
The rats are not "invading"! They're trying to spread democracy!
according to Slashdot groupthink
Oh, come on, there's no such thing. This crowd can't even agree on what text editor to use.
Just because there are people who disagree with you, doesn't make you into some kind of martyred hero of free speech. And complaining about 'bias' and a lack of 'objectivity' won't win people over to your side, it only makes you sound like a spoiled whiner.
#3: bats
taking it up the ass in Leavenworth
/., they feel obligated to include a reference to the ass-fucking that presumably takes place there? I'm not trying to single you out here, just commenting on what I perceive to be a persistent trend.
Why is it that every time someone mentions prison on
I don't code in java so my only experience with it is through applications.
Desktop apps are definitely Java's weakest point. (I should know, I've written a couple of them.) This is a problem with the GUI libraries, not with the language, or the core libraries, or the Java programmers. Unfortunately, a lot of people only think of Java in terms of desktop apps. This right there is the main reason why Java still has such a bad reputation.
The problem aside from Swing of using Java for UI work is the tools are wretched.
The GUI editor in NetBeans is pretty nice. Of course, it doesn't fix any of the inherent problems of Swing, but it just might make you forget them for a little while.
In Java, when you allocate an object, you have no control over when it gets deallocated,
You have some control, just not much. But why exactly is this a problem? If you're done using an object, the garbage collector takes care of it; why should you care when exactly it gets deallocated? If your object is holding onto some resource that needs to get released ASAP, then you add a method which releases that resource - there's no need to deallocate the object.
and you have no guaranteed way of performing some action just before it does.
That's absolutely wrong: you can override finalize(). (BTW, I write Java code for a living, and I can't even remember the last time I actually had to do that. Most of the time, the JVM and the core libraries take care of any clean-up automatically.)
If people are really going to choose 1 distro over the other, because Linus uses it, then they are pretty dumb users.
I think that was the whole point. There are a lot of dumb users out there, in case you haven't noticed.
Which is more American - free, government-developed, open-source software, or software that someone made a fortune on
In this particular case, it's irrelevant. Chances are that the government will still be contracting the work out to private companies. Why do people automatically assume that nobody ever gets paid to write open-source software?
The record holder (pun intended) is 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Oh, that's nothing. A friend of mine once managed to string one of them along for 6 or 7 hours. He was painting an apartment while the owners were away, so he had no use for the phone anyhow. If you have multiple phone lines - all the better.
Most telemarketers are required by company policy to stay on the line until they make a sale or the victim hangs up - they're completely powerless to stop this. Especially if you say something like "Yeah, let me just find my credit card."
In case any telemarketers want to know: YES, I do advocate this sort of behavior, and NO, I don't feel the least bit guilty about cutting into your earnings. There's plenty of honest ways to make a living.
If explorers and scientists had to wait for the rest of the people to stop acting like fools, human civilization would never get anywhere.
Correlation does imply causality, but it doesn't prove it.
What were we talking about again?
Another tip-off: they completely ignore the recent revival of "Dr. Who". Hell, if they didn't like the new series as much, that would have been one thing, but I suspect they'd just never even heard of it. If it's not shown in the US, it doesn't exist.
Then again, you'd be crazy to expect too much from this sort of 'aticle'. It was probably put together at the last minute by some overworked intern.
A word of warning: if you're setting up an svn repository, DO NOT use the default backing store (which is based on Berkeley DB); use the FSFS backing store. Otherwise, you could get the exact thing that you're trying to avoid - that is, losing all your data. This has been a known problem for a while - it's the reason they introduced the FSFS option.
Other than that, I think svn is a pretty good product.
To expect them to become scientific experts, as well as journalistic masters and mistresses, is somewhat extreme.
Lets say you hire someone to write about baseball. You wouldn't expect him (yeah, I did say 'him': most women have better things to do with their lives) to actually play the game at a Major-League level, but you would expect him to have a command of certain basic knowledge, like, for example, the rules of the game. What the article is saying (and I completely agree) is that this expectation is not generally enforced for science and technology journalism.
There's a line I heard somewhere about those who fail to learn history, but I can't remember how it goes, Oh well, it's probably not important.
Yeah, I think everyone involved was kinda hoping we'd all forget about that one.
By the way, "that guy" is David Hasselhoff. Funny, I always think of him as "that guy who had the talking car". Must be a generational thing.
"Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future."
- Criswell
The argument for an "open" patent office site has nothing to do with Linux users.
Read Nabokov.
A good bit of advice. When you're done with old Vlad, how about reading the page title? This article is about the Copyright Office, not the USPTO.
Otherwise it gives some people *cough* M$ *cough* an advantage on Patents.
This article is about the Copyright Office - it has nothing to do with patents.
Cop 1: I wouldn't hold out much hope for the stereo, though.
Cop 2: Or the Credence.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0118715/
No other animal eats tofu either.
I tried baiting a mousetrap with tofu once, just as an experiment. Little fuckers completely ignored it. We caught a lot of them with Gorgonzola, though.
If you want to be taken seriously in a serious world, you have to play by those rules.
I'd rather be taken seriously by people who aren't afraid to think for themselves. I realize that the people you refer to as "serious" are in the majority and that they hold a lot of power, and we all have to make compromises just to get by - but if nobody stands up to them, they'll just keep making MORE stupid rules.
Now you may call me an idiot again
I never called you an idiot. But I might be persuaded to change my opinion.
People who judge a software product by its name are idiots. Simple as that. Why should I, or anyone else, care what they think? And if you happen to be working for people like that, then you have my sincere condolences, but don't blame Linux developers for it.