Months ago i kindly asked the Gimp developers to add "Pattern Dither". Codingwise it's actually no big deal. One just have to reduce a matrix to dimension 2x2 internally.
They basically replied "Our dithering is superior. Noone will ever need this Pattern Dither.". Well, Adobe Photoshop has that feature. What i like about commercial software is they cannot afford a "We know better than you what is good for you" attitude.
"Wixen" is the German slang word for "masturbate". The prefix "wix" is used to devaluate something. "The WiX code" means something like "the f*cking code".
I only use a "m_" prefix for class attributes and "s_" for static class attributes. You will find this convention throughout most Open Source projects.
Making the variable name represent the variable type makes the code very ugly. And what do you do when you make up your mind and change and int to be a double? Touch each and every line using it? Bah.
With tools like JavaDoc, Doxygen and (put your favorite IDE here) this is moot anyway. They have better ways to tell you about your code.
Just for fun i once ran the windows version of our C++ product using wine on linux. The window menus were more snappy than the one from the native X11 version. Why is that? Probably because wine uses DGA by default, bypassing X11 altogether.
Sorry, i just stopped believing in the "X11 isn't slow" slogans some years ago. Of course you can say "the toolkits use X11 ineffectively". Might be true. But that's like saying "Windows is secure, only the applications suck".
there is more information contained in a Hubble image like this than there is in a ground-based image taken by the most powerful telescope on Earth (Keck)
The JPL is a pretty viral license. It forces you to spread their space probes from your planet to all your customer's planets. This is un-solar systematic!
What's next? Calling GNUpiter Jupiter instead?
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funny words like ABACADABRA only using names of programming languages.
2005 will be the year of Linux' desktop breakthrough.
Mercury! It only makes people sick.
Months ago i kindly asked the Gimp developers to add "Pattern Dither". Codingwise it's actually no big deal. One just have to reduce a matrix to dimension 2x2 internally.
They basically replied "Our dithering is superior. Noone will ever need this Pattern Dither.". Well, Adobe Photoshop has that feature. What i like about commercial software is they cannot afford a "We know better than you what is good for you" attitude.
Maybe the article author has been laid off from Ericsson, I believe they used (use?) Eiffel a lot in-house
No, what you mean is Erlang.
Back when the Americas were colinized death was acceptable
Especially since they died for the possibility to live there.
The Antarctica is a warmer and nearer place to live in compared to the moon.
And? :)
"Wixen" is the German slang word for "masturbate". The prefix "wix" is used to devaluate something. "The WiX code" means something like "the f*cking code".
"Take it away! Take this green user interface away! Could be cryptonite!"
Super heroes ain't what they used to be.
Yeah, this damned overpriced ink.
I only use a "m_" prefix for class attributes and "s_" for static class attributes. You will find this convention throughout most Open Source projects.
Making the variable name represent the variable type makes the code very ugly. And what do you do when you make up your mind and change and int to be a double? Touch each and every line using it? Bah.
With tools like JavaDoc, Doxygen and (put your favorite IDE here) this is moot anyway. They have better ways to tell you about your code.
Just for fun i once ran the windows version of our C++ product using wine on linux. The window menus were more snappy than the one from the native X11 version. Why is that? Probably because wine uses DGA by default, bypassing X11 altogether.
Sorry, i just stopped believing in the "X11 isn't slow" slogans some years ago. Of course you can say "the toolkits use X11 ineffectively". Might be true. But that's like saying "Windows is secure, only the applications suck".
there is more information contained in a Hubble image like this than there is in a ground-based image taken by the most powerful telescope on Earth (Keck)
Really? VLT telescope produces images as sharp as Hubble
But where do you buy money?
So instead of seizing the 10 mio USD defence fund from ODSL they rather paid a 7 figure amount?
My company should quickly do some prudent deals with them...
The JPL is a pretty viral license. It forces you to spread their space probes from your planet to all your customer's planets. This is un-solar systematic! What's next? Calling GNUpiter Jupiter instead?
lenny@benny:~$ apt-cache show xfree86-common | grep Version
Version: 4.2.1-16
SCO UNIX(R) has been a dependable platform for thousands of McDonald's restaurants over the past 10 years
The probably meant 10 years ago.
when you made up your mind about what we poor non-English native speakers should learn.
the URL found links to "NT-animals.html".
George W. Buch told Tony Blair the CIA is ab-so-lute-ly sure Marsians are possessing weapons of mass destruction.
D-BUS is a system for interprocess communication (IPC).
It's a common successor for Gnome's CORBA and KDE's dcop usage.
Apropos competition. If you would send two rovers to mars, would you let them be controlled by two teams or by one and the same?
:)
Each versions has some pros and cons. Can we have a poll for that?