isn't this doing the same thing as IE into Windows which everyone on/. says is evil?
ack. i just read the replies to your comment and they all sound a bit like someone from the phone company explaining that is it wrong that all other phone companies track your calls but when her company is doing this it is something totally different and totally reasonable.
Can please someone explain me in clear and sound terms the recurrent FSF bashing ?
i can. stallman had some great ideas and wrote some k3wl essays, but time has changed. stallman became annoying. in his eyes, the only way to release software is GPL. while speaking all the day about freedom, he likes to enforce everyone to use the gpl. go to gnu.org and read some things like "why you shouldn't use the lgpl" and the like (don't get me wrong, i like the gpl-idea, but i also like the freedom to choose the license by myself).
the second reason is: whatever goes on in the it-world, the fsf (or stallman, most people think they are the same) must bash it. remember the "java trap" rant?
fsf bashing happens because fsf starts behaving like a lobby or a commercial organisation. trying to establish only one way of thinking as the right one and all that stuff. read some fsf papers about "linux is not gnu, but gnu/linux is".
ps:don't get me wrong again, i like the fsf, they just have a horrible pr.
i think there is one reason why a lot of different browsers would be cool: it enforces the implementation of standards. when there are a lot of different browsers the html/css standard becomes more important rather than coding for two or three different browsers.
i think prequels may be a good model for movie adoptions of video games. any decent game has a plot and a setting. it would sense to make a movie to "set up the story".
just waiting for pacman the movie with michael madson as pacman explaing why he is so afraid of these monsters.
What happens, though, when a species suddenly becomes its own greatest threat?
i'm pretty sure to know what will happen. the only thing that could prove me wrong is when some human-based archaeologist will dig a slashdot server up and read this comment in 100.000 years.
this simply is wrong. main is a static method of a class just as the main function in c is a function in a file. and static means this class does not need to be instantiated (that would produce an object) in order to execute the main method.
All Java offers is a cross platform unstable graphics suite, and a set of annoying libraries, and bad object oriented design
come on. this is just the usual fud. both awt and swing are stable. and the oo design of java is a very sophisticated one (to inherit from multiple classes is a real mess, better implement multiple interfaces and delegate for instance). and calling the core libraries "annoying" is just your opinion.
btw, i do not really see why so many people complain about swing performance. using 1.4.2, it runs as smooth as a native app on an amd 630mhz pc. the only bad thing is the jfileselector which no one should use, take the native awt dialog.
there's a difference 'tween linux users and windows users (for now): the linux user knows that the gui/window manager/whatever is just an interface, the windows user thinks all the windows and widgets are the operating system. an older windows user, someone who remembers that it took a command from the dos command line to start win3.1 may also know.
my point is: the gui (how it is) way is not the right way to move people from ms to linux. the power of linux is the kernel, the sockets and the huge base of free software available. and the freedom of choice, which includes the choice for your favourite window manager. this is something average windows users don't even know about: the gui is just a graphical layer in front of your os. this is something that makes linux and other unices extremly powerful from my pov.
the only way to move people to linux is to make them understand the real power of this operating system, not to make linux mimick the windows surface.
but i think about this like linus does: why should we take effort in moving people from windows to linux? there is no war, choose what you want, and if it's winxp, fine. not my prob.
the speed of the planes does not matter as long as it takes an hour to answer all the questionnaires at the us border, not to mention the security checks.
1) new virus
2) new anti-virus software
3) profit
4) goto 1)
in my opinion there is such a low number of people getting sued because the ifpi is not able/ has not the technology (be honest, they are not able) to find more people with 4 gigs of shared data. and the methods they use have not been tested yet by any european court[1].
and the other side did just start their engines yet while the ifpi is running out of fuel. this is literally just the beginning.
no need to get nervous.
[1] for example, in germany they first report an offence to the police by knowing that this criminal procedure will be appointed (therfor they had to aver every single download for every single shared file, which they can't) in order to get the ip address of their "target" (the providers must only reveal the ip address of a customer in connexion with a criminal procedure) so they can sue her at the civil court. one out of 68 defenders will argue like this or even better.
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"should we blame the government or blame society? or should we blame the images on tv? no. blame canada." - someone popular
Some games that require small text (such as massive multiplayer games) REQUIRE a high res monitor.
something like mmpgs do look like games, but they are not real games. they are applications used for gaming. i think that gaming is about fun and about having a good time, and any information that is not recognized from the PAL (or NTSC) standard (like 7px text) has no place in a game. ah, yes, period.
i think this would be a good direction to go to. when the console does cover the heavy gaming section[1], the pc would be free from that strange hardware boundaries: when you do not use the pc for playing games, you do not need to buy a new graphics card every year.
the high hardware demands are only driven by games[2]. ok, if you had very special things to do (you are a music producer or you develop hq-3d apps for hollywood), you need to also update your hardware, but joe schmock doesn't need to.
Using indentation for block structure is the work of a mad-man. I'll never wilingly use such a "programming" language.
you are right. there is one reason why using two different characters that look the same on nearly every texteditor for two different purposes is a bad thing.
someone did mention it already: you gotta be able to see from the source wether it would compile or not. at least theoretically.
you are right and you are wrong. yeah, the oss community DOES discuss everything, but there is also a right-to-left version of the gome-desktop and also a version "op platt" (which is a german dialect spoken at the shores of that country). both are available NOW.
so no doubt here (the examples were just for play), oss is far more ahead in this matter than m$, and the oss community also has time and space to debate gpl versus lgpl (which is a serious debate for that matter).
now, who has the wits?
yeah, that reminds me of something: lately i had a rendevouz. oh, sorry, i mean deja-vu. if you do not know f. urlaub, you probably won't understand, but that probably won't mind.
m$ really knows how to sell simple (and already established) solutions as innovative, simple because their products did neglect such needs till now.
the l18n issue is soooo damn old, and everyone knows that it takes such a little effort to implement (it's mostly about externalizing strings from your source and managin' formatting objects in a centre place, like dates). it's nothing what i couldn't do with my eclpise in 5 minutes.
but the average business person will still think that m$ did invent the whole thing. (which they didn't, btw)
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isn't this doing the same thing as IE into Windows which everyone on /. says is evil?
ack. i just read the replies to your comment and they all sound a bit like someone from the phone company explaining that is it wrong that all other phone companies track your calls but when her company is doing this it is something totally different and totally reasonable.
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Can please someone explain me in clear and sound terms the recurrent FSF bashing ?
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i can. stallman had some great ideas and wrote some k3wl essays, but time has changed. stallman became annoying. in his eyes, the only way to release software is GPL. while speaking all the day about freedom, he likes to enforce everyone to use the gpl. go to gnu.org and read some things like "why you shouldn't use the lgpl" and the like (don't get me wrong, i like the gpl-idea, but i also like the freedom to choose the license by myself).
the second reason is: whatever goes on in the it-world, the fsf (or stallman, most people think they are the same) must bash it. remember the "java trap" rant?
fsf bashing happens because fsf starts behaving like a lobby or a commercial organisation. trying to establish only one way of thinking as the right one and all that stuff. read some fsf papers about "linux is not gnu, but gnu/linux is".
ps:don't get me wrong again, i like the fsf, they just have a horrible pr.
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i think there is one reason why a lot of different browsers would be cool: it enforces the implementation of standards. when there are a lot of different browsers the html/css standard becomes more important rather than coding for two or three different browsers.
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
i'd like to see you try.
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i think prequels may be a good model for movie adoptions of video games. any decent game has a plot and a setting. it would sense to make a movie to "set up the story".
.sig business long ago.
just waiting for pacman the movie with michael madson as pacman explaing why he is so afraid of these monsters.
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What happens, though, when a species suddenly becomes its own greatest threat?
i'm pretty sure to know what will happen. the only thing that could prove me wrong is when some human-based archaeologist will dig a slashdot server up and read this comment in 100.000 years.
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this is not a real sig.
(Main should not be an object)
this simply is wrong. main is a static method of a class just as the main function in c is a function in a file. and static means this class does not need to be instantiated (that would produce an object) in order to execute the main method.
All Java offers is a cross platform unstable graphics suite, and a set of annoying libraries, and bad object oriented design
come on. this is just the usual fud. both awt and swing are stable. and the oo design of java is a very sophisticated one (to inherit from multiple classes is a real mess, better implement multiple interfaces and delegate for instance). and calling the core libraries "annoying" is just your opinion.
btw, i do not really see why so many people complain about swing performance. using 1.4.2, it runs as smooth as a native app on an amd 630mhz pc. the only bad thing is the jfileselector which no one should use, take the native awt dialog.
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this is not a real sig.
Apparently, you're not aware of the existance of J#. C# is not Microsoft's version of Java. J# is.
seems that someone at microsoft has found out about yacc.
there's a difference 'tween linux users and windows users (for now): the linux user knows that the gui/window manager/whatever is just an interface, the windows user thinks all the windows and widgets are the operating system. an older windows user, someone who remembers that it took a command from the dos command line to start win3.1 may also know.
my point is: the gui (how it is) way is not the right way to move people from ms to linux. the power of linux is the kernel, the sockets and the huge base of free software available. and the freedom of choice, which includes the choice for your favourite window manager. this is something average windows users don't even know about: the gui is just a graphical layer in front of your os. this is something that makes linux and other unices extremly powerful from my pov.
the only way to move people to linux is to make them understand the real power of this operating system, not to make linux mimick the windows surface.
but i think about this like linus does: why should we take effort in moving people from windows to linux? there is no war, choose what you want, and if it's winxp, fine. not my prob.
the speed of the planes does not matter as long as it takes an hour to answer all the questionnaires at the us border, not to mention the security checks.
a part of the following is an anology.
the same pattern we know from the virus thing.
1) new virus
2) new anti-virus software
3) profit
4) goto 1)
in my opinion there is such a low number of people getting sued because the ifpi is not able/ has not the technology (be honest, they are not able) to find more people with 4 gigs of shared data. and the methods they use have not been tested yet by any european court[1].
and the other side did just start their engines yet while the ifpi is running out of fuel. this is literally just the beginning.
no need to get nervous.
[1] for example, in germany they first report an offence to the police by knowing that this criminal procedure will be appointed (therfor they had to aver every single download for every single shared file, which they can't) in order to get the ip address of their "target" (the providers must only reveal the ip address of a customer in connexion with a criminal procedure) so they can sue her at the civil court. one out of 68 defenders will argue like this or even better.
--
"should we blame the government or blame society? or should we blame the images on tv? no. blame canada." - someone popular
my wife and I have enough savings for 6 months of unemployment with absolutely 0 income; I hope we never have to use it
do you have an ego problem or why did you wrote that? i has no effect on your argument nor on the subject.
Some games that require small text (such as massive multiplayer games) REQUIRE a high res monitor.
something like mmpgs do look like games, but they are not real games. they are applications used for gaming. i think that gaming is about fun and about having a good time, and any information that is not recognized from the PAL (or NTSC) standard (like 7px text) has no place in a game. ah, yes, period.
i think this would be a good direction to go to. when the console does cover the heavy gaming section[1], the pc would be free from that strange hardware boundaries: when you do not use the pc for playing games, you do not need to buy a new graphics card every year.
the high hardware demands are only driven by games[2]. ok, if you had very special things to do (you are a music producer or you develop hq-3d apps for hollywood), you need to also update your hardware, but joe schmock doesn't need to.
Using indentation for block structure is the work of a mad-man. I'll never wilingly use such a "programming" language.
you are right. there is one reason why using two different characters that look the same on nearly every texteditor for two different purposes is a bad thing.
someone did mention it already: you gotta be able to see from the source wether it would compile or not. at least theoretically.
you are right and you are wrong. yeah, the oss community DOES discuss everything, but there is also a right-to-left version of the gome-desktop and also a version "op platt" (which is a german dialect spoken at the shores of that country). both are available NOW. so no doubt here (the examples were just for play), oss is far more ahead in this matter than m$, and the oss community also has time and space to debate gpl versus lgpl (which is a serious debate for that matter). now, who has the wits?
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yeah, that reminds me of something: lately i had a rendevouz. oh, sorry, i mean deja-vu. if you do not know f. urlaub, you probably won't understand, but that probably won't mind.
m$ really knows how to sell simple (and already established) solutions as innovative, simple because their products did neglect such needs till now. the l18n issue is soooo damn old, and everyone knows that it takes such a little effort to implement (it's mostly about externalizing strings from your source and managin' formatting objects in a centre place, like dates). it's nothing what i couldn't do with my eclpise in 5 minutes. but the average business person will still think that m$ did invent the whole thing. (which they didn't, btw)