In Soviet Russia, err, uh... imagine a Beowulf cluster...
Ah forget it, this sucks.
As if the DMCA wasn't bad enough. And the Patriot Act. Christ, there's even serious talk about reinstating a draft in the US just so we can conduct this perpetual "war against terrorism."
Anyone ever notice the United States has been almost continuously at "war" with something/one or another since WW2? First the Germans, then the Koreans, then the North Vietnamese. When they couldn't find anyONE to pick on, then Reagan came up with the war on drugs. We all know how successful one's been.
This bill, if it passes, gives corporations the power to effectively repeal the first amendment. Oh, wait, that's been done before, too...
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When I first started, a graphical display of 320x200 was considered awesome ("you have graphics? And a touchpad? What's a touchpad?"). Nowadays, we have 20x the area as the norm.
Actually, the difference in area between a 12" monitor and a 21" monitor is more like 4x the area, not 20x. The difference in resolution might be 20-30x, but the screen area is still only 4x.
What happens when you try to draw on a 21" monitor using low-res icons and such is really small and hard to read text and icons. I run large size icons on my 19" monitor at home just because I typically am sitting about 4 feet away from it and I like to be able to see what I'm clicking.
Wow, a poll of a whole 200 students...not exactly a big enough sample size for this study to be taken seriously...
Actually, Gallup is able to make US public opinion polls accurate to within 3% by sampling approximately 1000 people. So, just because the sample size is small does not necessarily mean the poll is inaccurate. This is due to the Central Limit Theorem.
What we have here is a case of sampling bias. I'm sure this sample of 200 represents well the musical tastes of students at the Training Company's UK residential courses (assuming it was a random sample), but not much else.
...still using technology pioneered in the 60s.
Oh really? I didn't know Goddard invented the liquid-fueled rocket in the 60's.:) Great trick, too, considering he died in 1945.
In theory, ReactOS can be ported to other platforms, so the Win32 API could becom ea sort of write-once run-anywhere system. ReactOS also can be extended quite easily, so i could have an ObjC layer if I wanted to write it.
Sure, but unless you would like to emulate the Pentium 4 as part of the OS as well, you will need to recompile the apps. That means you need source code. Good luck running MS Office on ReactOS running on any of the non-Intel, non-PPC platforms here
This does most of those who maintain both a Windows box and an OSS box absolutely no good. The only reason they have the Windows box is for that one game, app, etc, that runs only on Windows/x86.
I realize I glossed over the first part of your post by omission, but really, Wine is what you want if you want to run Windows/x86 apps on top of a *nix compatible OS.
If this gets to the point where it can run a lot of popular Windows applications flawlessly, Microsoft will have to introduce some more undocumented system calls and other incompatibilities to make life difficult. My memory is a little fuzzy on this, but I seem to recall them doing this when updating DOS versions. Mysteriously, certain competitor's apps stopped working...
Either that, or MS will switch from being an OS vendor to a support vendor.
This is a common misconception. In fact, python is a strongly typed language. Every object in python has a definite type at any given time, and there are no implicit conversions between types.
What python is is dynamically typed. That is, a name can be rebound to a different object whose type may differ from the original value.
See http://kahakai.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Weak lyTyped for perhaps a more clear explaination of the difference.
I'm assuming you mean IDE as in "Integrated Development Environment." This begs the question, then, what do you want integrated?
I'm a big fan of IDLE, myself. It's by no means the slickest IDE out there or even the best tool for some jobs. However, it does (I)ntegrate a syntax-highlighting, auto-indenting editor; a debugger, class browser, and an interactive python shell.
The interactive shell is really the most powerful. From the shell, you can inspect your whole program at any point in its execution. What that means is that you don't *need* an IDE to write pure python code at all. A decent editor and the interactive shell are enough.
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Wouldn't the "real fans" download it off p2p and then buy it on CD as well?
Ah forget it, this sucks.
As if the DMCA wasn't bad enough. And the Patriot Act. Christ, there's even serious talk about reinstating a draft in the US just so we can conduct this perpetual "war against terrorism."
Anyone ever notice the United States has been almost continuously at "war" with something/one or another since WW2? First the Germans, then the Koreans, then the North Vietnamese. When they couldn't find anyONE to pick on, then Reagan came up with the war on drugs. We all know how successful one's been.
This bill, if it passes, gives corporations the power to effectively repeal the first amendment. Oh, wait, that's been done before, too...
Note to mods: before modding me off topic or flamebait, read this.
Actually, the difference in area between a 12" monitor and a 21" monitor is more like 4x the area, not 20x. The difference in resolution might be 20-30x, but the screen area is still only 4x.
What happens when you try to draw on a 21" monitor using low-res icons and such is really small and hard to read text and icons. I run large size icons on my 19" monitor at home just because I typically am sitting about 4 feet away from it and I like to be able to see what I'm clicking.
Actually, Gallup is able to make US public opinion polls accurate to within 3% by sampling approximately 1000 people. So, just because the sample size is small does not necessarily mean the poll is inaccurate. This is due to the Central Limit Theorem.
What we have here is a case of sampling bias. I'm sure this sample of 200 represents well the musical tastes of students at the Training Company's UK residential courses (assuming it was a random sample), but not much else.
...still using technology pioneered in the 60s. Oh really? I didn't know Goddard invented the liquid-fueled rocket in the 60's. :) Great trick, too, considering he died in 1945.
Sure, but unless you would like to emulate the Pentium 4 as part of the OS as well, you will need to recompile the apps. That means you need source code. Good luck running MS Office on ReactOS running on any of the non-Intel, non-PPC platforms here
This does most of those who maintain both a Windows box and an OSS box absolutely no good. The only reason they have the Windows box is for that one game, app, etc, that runs only on Windows/x86.
I realize I glossed over the first part of your post by omission, but really, Wine is what you want if you want to run Windows/x86 apps on top of a *nix compatible OS.
Either that, or MS will switch from being an OS vendor to a support vendor.
Yeah right, and monkeys will fly out my butt.
It's the only way to be sure.
Nuke the drive from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
What python is is dynamically typed. That is, a name can be rebound to a different object whose type may differ from the original value.
See http://kahakai.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Weak lyTyped for perhaps a more clear explaination of the difference.
I'm a big fan of IDLE, myself. It's by no means the slickest IDE out there or even the best tool for some jobs. However, it does (I)ntegrate a syntax-highlighting, auto-indenting editor; a debugger, class browser, and an interactive python shell. The interactive shell is really the most powerful. From the shell, you can inspect your whole program at any point in its execution. What that means is that you don't *need* an IDE to write pure python code at all. A decent editor and the interactive shell are enough.