Brilliant! I really trust the opinions of an article authored by someone who can't spell and draws sweeping 'conclusions' from issues that haven't even been raised in the body.
The thread as a whole is about Hotmail, and only comparing it with GMail; I think mine is a perfectly valid observation to make in such a thread. (Agreed, though: to match this capability Gmail should use POP as this proprietary HTTP thing is garbage, albeit useful behind some oppressive firewalls.)
But you can use Hotmail this way... use Outlook Express to have an offline history and access the new stuff at any old web terminal, without hoping there's a POP client that won't leave your messages behind, or a SSH client.
Actually they played and won in a competitive world of DOS and C-compilers. Then moved on the word processors. If it's new to anyone it's Google, who want to project forward from killing off Altavista...
Google is up front about what they do and when. Spyware, by definition, is not. It also tends not to warn you when it installs itself.
Damn straight! What's it going to say (cf. Google toolbar): "would you like to install this software given that it tracks and discloses your personal information for no benefit at all to you?"?
Many companies like the one I work for require you to be able to get a service contract for any software. So, to use Linux they have to be able to get a service contract. That's why they go for those expensive ones
Exactly!... same in Munich - not everyone in the council has l33t sk1llz
Why would you want to take away peoples' right to derive proprietary software from works created by the government?
Because all too often the currently-privileged position of having developed, and knowing the internals of, public-funded software is used to then shaft the public out of license fees for such proprietary derivative software. (Unlike those talking philosophically I can cite examples.)
I believe such a licensing is the best way to level the playing field once software is created, and agree with the original poster.
Yes, that's why the soldiers natural intelligence is used for this task - as it has been since the day of the Ancients - this is a tool that integrates information useful to the choice.
Nope, you're not even reading what they are and aren't claiming:
"[T]he application integrates various sources of geospatial information [...] [f]rom this data, soldiers can easily find a safe route between two locations."
Good point. Some people always act (or, more to the point, talk about acting) from the point of view of wanting to police the world and enforce "truth, justice and [their] way".
Some of us just want to make a practical start on the problem...
Our favourite languages (mine's Haskell) not only have typing (unlike what I consider scripting languages), not only strong static typing (unlike Java), but actually have type features younger than me!;)
I agree that practical scripting languages need the kind of features you mentioned (string manipulation and at least regular expression matching - apparently that's also state of the art for Industry types, despite being under-powered for the very text structures we're using these days!), but I'd speculated previously that it's an untyped interpreted language that's called a scripting language...
... Exactly! Giving Americans irony is like giving you a language with a range of temporal constructions (or, indeed, Linux) - you'll use it ham-fistedly, break it and act as if you invented it yourself and no one else could understand (or make their own use of it).
How the arse could I not have been being sarcastic too? Do you then think I was taking you at your word that Linux is full of spyware and that I was saying that it's also where Joe Public uses desktop apps? ROFL!
That's almost as ironic as your dig about education...
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I agree his sources are well-chosen, but he then destroys his credibility by generalising and introducing his own groundless opinion. A shame...
Brilliant! I really trust the opinions of an article authored by someone who can't spell and draws sweeping 'conclusions' from issues that haven't even been raised in the body.
Ah, damn it... before you say anything, yes, I hybridized racist and fascist... deliberately, of course!
And they were the rascists?...
It does, but only Outlook XP (not previously).
The thread as a whole is about Hotmail, and only comparing it with GMail; I think mine is a perfectly valid observation to make in such a thread. (Agreed, though: to match this capability Gmail should use POP as this proprietary HTTP thing is garbage, albeit useful behind some oppressive firewalls.)
But you can use Hotmail this way... use Outlook Express to have an offline history and access the new stuff at any old web terminal, without hoping there's a POP client that won't leave your messages behind, or a SSH client.
Actually they played and won in a competitive world of DOS and C-compilers. Then moved on the word processors. If it's new to anyone it's Google, who want to project forward from killing off Altavista...
Damn straight! What's it going to say (cf. Google toolbar): "would you like to install this software given that it tracks and discloses your personal information for no benefit at all to you?"?
*Clickclickclick*...
Exactly!... same in Munich - not everyone in the council has l33t sk1llz
Because all too often the currently-privileged position of having developed, and knowing the internals of, public-funded software is used to then shaft the public out of license fees for such proprietary derivative software. (Unlike those talking philosophically I can cite examples.)
I believe such a licensing is the best way to level the playing field once software is created, and agree with the original poster.
Yes, that's why the soldiers natural intelligence is used for this task - as it has been since the day of the Ancients - this is a tool that integrates information useful to the choice.
Nope, you're not even reading what they are and aren't claiming:
Good point. Some people always act (or, more to the point, talk about acting) from the point of view of wanting to police the world and enforce "truth, justice and [their] way".
Some of us just want to make a practical start on the problem...
Well what is a scripting language?
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Our favourite languages (mine's Haskell) not only have typing (unlike what I consider scripting languages), not only strong static typing (unlike Java), but actually have type features younger than me!
I agree that practical scripting languages need the kind of features you mentioned (string manipulation and at least regular expression matching - apparently that's also state of the art for Industry types, despite being under-powered for the very text structures we're using these days!), but I'd speculated previously that it's an untyped interpreted language that's called a scripting language...
What do you think?
Lisp?!? Haskell!
... Exactly! Giving Americans irony is like giving you a language with a range of temporal constructions (or, indeed, Linux) - you'll use it ham-fistedly, break it and act as if you invented it yourself and no one else could understand (or make their own use of it).
(Now I'm trolling... and I couldn't care less.)
OK, now you're going to assault my understanding of irony based on my use of British English? And from your standpoint of near illiteracy?
Again (and still correctly formed), how could I not have been being ironic?
How the arse could I not have been being sarcastic too? Do you then think I was taking you at your word that Linux is full of spyware and that I was saying that it's also where Joe Public uses desktop apps? ROFL! That's almost as ironic as your dig about education...
You were being sarcastic, I was pulling you up on it... are we clear, troll?
Worms and spyware on the back of software that people actually use, instead of just talking about (servers aside).
Yeah, I've been meaning to do that since I upgraded from 5510 to 6800 (due to a failing keyboard). Are there drawbacks?...
Don't try to teach me computation theory, read what I'm saying!
Can't have it both ways - either you accept rotations as a mathematical representation or not... if you do, you've not ruled out the door knob!