Last time I checked, the parent's are responsible for teaching a child the difference between right and wrong.
Now that I think about it, if you look at all the law suits like this, it would appear that Americans really want a communist government. God forbid we take responsibility for our own actions...
I wanted to understand how Microsoft could have screwed up so badly that the CLR was a worse platform for dynamic languages than the JVM...
So... when you decided to implement this language, you used CLR which, by your own accounts, is a worse platform... I dont' get it. You wanted to understand Microsoft's stupidity by building on it? Brilliant.
20k lines of code? That is miniscule. I've got a mid-sized enterprise system that's got 20k FILES containing millions of lines of code integrating a dozen desparate systems over a network of 50 or so servers. It handles thousands of concurrent users performing transactions - not just viewing content. That's just a mid-sized system. Some large scale systems use clusters of hundreds of servers. Not to bash what you're doing but I think you could use a little perspective on the size of your application.
I don't care if you've got a freakin army of PHP programmers, you're never going to build a system that can scale like Java.
1) Scripted languages in general: slow performance
2) Compiled languages in general: Requires rebuild before changes take effect, so testing and retesting is slowed down.
3) Java/.Net/Byte-code languages: Worst of #1 and #2 above.
Don't believe the hype about Java's performance. Today's just-in-time compilers can optimize code as well as hand optimized code and they don't waste resources optimizing paths that don't get executed. There are many benchmarks out there that confirm that Java's performance is comparable to C++ and even better in some areas.
I agree with your point though, there are a huge number of crappy programmers out there. Good programmers write good code in whatever language they are using.
So, what is good code?
IMHO, good code performs well and is easy to understand and use.
Basic economic principles drive OSS project funding just like everything else. First you need to find someone that has a demand for your product. Lacking that, you'll have to rely on philanthropy. I don't think there's much of that just for the sake of supporting OSS.
Here in Minnesota, that's exactly what they do. It is illegal to attach unrelated legislation to a bill. There was just recently a conceal and carry gun law declared unconstitutional for this very reason. http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/04/14/64167
I completely agree that this is what the US legislature needs to do. It would almost completely eliminate pork barrel projects and the sneaky, politically motivated manuvering that has so deranged and perverted our law making system.
We need a lean, transparent system because it's obvious that we can't trust our representatives.
1. The universe must have been created by an intelligent designer because it's too complex to explain any other way. 2. The designer's existance can't even be proven let alone explained. Period.
So how is it that the only way to explain the universe is by the existance of a "Designer" who's existance can't be explained?
Intelligent Design is nothing more than identity theft. Creationists were kicked out of the schools and they think that replacing the word "God" with "Intelligent Designer" somehow makes thier belief secular and scientific.
I've got a novel idea...
Teach science in school. Teach religion in church.
I think the reason creationists are unable to play by these rules is quite obvious: they aren't concerned about teaching their own children, they are concerned about teaching YOUR children.
The thing about Fundamentalism is, it's fairly unique to the United States, and even then, it's fairly unique to the Deep South, and even then, it's fairly unique to only a handful of denominations.
If you consider Minneapolis to be Deep South, then I agree with you. There are a lot of them up here too.
I was raised in Iowa in an evangelical fundamentalist church and they believe the bible is the literal word of God. All of it. I recently visited home and went to church with my parents (to avoid an ugly confrontation) and their church has grown dramatically in the 15 years since I attended regulary.
Don't kid yourself, these freaks are everywhere and spreading like a nasty virus.
The University of Minnesota has been replacing Sun hardware with LINUX (RedHat) in their computer labs since I attended in 1997. I had no idea we were so far ahead of our time.
You'll have to explain to me how this is any different than what Slashdot itself is all about - write a blurb about an article, maybe quote it, and link to it. This is not unique, a scam, or even interesting - it's the way things are.
And if, like you say, Rolland's journal entries are "lame rehashes of original and insightful technology articles", where can I find a source for fresh and interesting articles? That source used to be Slashdot.
How agreeable would it be if you found out your vote was counted for the wrong candidate? But since these machines leave no audit trail, I guess we'll never know.
There are plenty of other reasons. My main reason: I believe Bush will do more to protect this country than Kerry (who looks like a Basset hound, btw).
And your commentary on his appearance belies your true motivation; you don't think he looks like a President.
I still don't understand how a man who did everything to avoid military service is percieved as a better military leader than a man that persued military service and active duty. Is it Bush's willingness to start a conflict that people mistake for military leadership?
MS releases the source code in order to improve security thereby validating one of the main pillars of OSS - more eyes on the code makes for more secure code - although I'm sure you'll never hear them say that directly.
Microsoft produces plenty of software that runs on Windows and OSX that's (surprise, surprise) actually free.
Bull Shit.
Microsoft does not do anything that it doesn't think will produce revenue. All those "free" programs that you speek of are certainly paid for, you just don't see it on the reciept when you bought the OS. Perhaps a lesson in accounting would help here.
It seems to me that SCO's big promise to investors is that they will find a way to collect money from LINUX users.
I think there are only 2 possible outcomes.
Outcome 1: SCO is wrong and looses it's claim. Result: LINUX moves on unaffected and SCO goes the way of the Dodo.
Outcome 2: SCO wins it's claim. Result: LINUX replaces the offending code and SCO no longer has grounds for a claim. Again, SCO becomes irrelavant if not bankrupt.
Aren't you getting a little defensive? So you think that the comment "Why is it still so damn ugly?" is constructive? For your enlightenment, that type of comment is called an insult.
Gee wiz, I've never heard anyone suggest reading Apple's UI guide. What an orriginal suggestion.
My comment was not even slightly abusive. In fact it appears to be quite constructive. The guy just wanted to bitch and I suggested that he stop bitching and do something about it.
Oh, and do you really believe that slashdot is the appropriate forum for constructive critisism regarding UI design? Perhaps the KDE or GNOME forums would be more appropriate. Just a constructive suggestion.
"Maybe this is why some people are put of on linux."
If anyone is "put off" by the idea of helping out, screw them. I don't give a shit if people don't like Linux or feel put off, they should just stick to their Mac or Windows or whatever. Linux is by users, for users - I'm sure an intelligent, sensitive person like yourself already knows that. And being one of those users myself, I also know that you don't need to be a magician to write code.
So, just for you I'm going to regress to childhood - you grow up and take a little responsibility instead of assuming everyone else should fix it for you. Mommy still wiping your ass too?
Besides, this is slashdot - you know, the place where a bunch of idiots come to reveal their stupidity in a public forum.
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I'm sure most of you recognize that this is nothing new, Compiere has been operating just like this for years.
Last time I checked, the parent's are responsible for teaching a child the difference between right and wrong.
Now that I think about it, if you look at all the law suits like this, it would appear that Americans really want a communist government. God forbid we take responsibility for our own actions...
I wanted to understand how Microsoft could have screwed up so badly that the CLR was a worse platform for dynamic languages than the JVM...
So... when you decided to implement this language, you used CLR which, by your own accounts, is a worse platform... I dont' get it. You wanted to understand Microsoft's stupidity by building on it? Brilliant.
20k lines of code? That is miniscule. I've got a mid-sized enterprise system that's got 20k FILES containing millions of lines of code integrating a dozen desparate systems over a network of 50 or so servers. It handles thousands of concurrent users performing transactions - not just viewing content. That's just a mid-sized system. Some large scale systems use clusters of hundreds of servers. Not to bash what you're doing but I think you could use a little perspective on the size of your application.
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I don't care if you've got a freakin army of PHP programmers, you're never going to build a system that can scale like Java.
1) Scripted languages in general: slow performance
2) Compiled languages in general: Requires rebuild before changes take effect, so testing and retesting is slowed down.
3) Java/.Net/Byte-code languages: Worst of #1 and #2 above.
Don't believe the hype about Java's performance. Today's just-in-time compilers can optimize code as well as hand optimized code and they don't waste resources optimizing paths that don't get executed. There are many benchmarks out there that confirm that Java's performance is comparable to C++ and even better in some areas.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-1998/jw-
http://www.tommti-systems.de/go.html?http://www.t
http://java.sys-con.com/read/45250.htm?CFID=29694
I agree with your point though, there are a huge number of crappy programmers out there. Good programmers write good code in whatever language they are using.
So, what is good code?
IMHO, good code performs well and is easy to understand and use.
I feel safe now.
What a rediculous and inappropriate waste of time and money!!
Even worse, I expect this kind of shit.
Did you ever notice the ground transportation they use?
Levitating carts pulled by animals.
Star travel and anti-gravity and they need animals for propulsion?!
Basic economic principles drive OSS project funding just like everything else. First you need to find someone that has a demand for your product. Lacking that, you'll have to rely on philanthropy. I don't think there's much of that just for the sake of supporting OSS.
Here in Minnesota, that's exactly what they do. It is illegal to attach unrelated legislation to a bill. There was just recently a conceal and carry gun law declared unconstitutional for this very reason. http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/04/14/64167
I completely agree that this is what the US legislature needs to do. It would almost completely eliminate pork barrel projects and the sneaky, politically motivated manuvering that has so deranged and perverted our law making system.
We need a lean, transparent system because it's obvious that we can't trust our representatives.
...prepair to recieve the mark of the Beast.
1. The universe must have been created by an intelligent designer because it's too complex to explain any other way.
2. The designer's existance can't even be proven let alone explained. Period.
So how is it that the only way to explain the universe is by the existance of a "Designer" who's existance can't be explained?
Intelligent Design is nothing more than identity theft. Creationists were kicked out of the schools and they think that replacing the word "God" with "Intelligent Designer" somehow makes thier belief secular and scientific.
I've got a novel idea...
Teach science in school.
Teach religion in church.
I think the reason creationists are unable to play by these rules is quite obvious: they aren't concerned about teaching their own children, they are concerned about teaching YOUR children.
I don't understand this Intel vs AMD Dual-core thing. Hasn't IBM been selling dual-core Power4 and Power5 chips for a while now?
The thing about Fundamentalism is, it's fairly unique to the United States, and even then, it's fairly unique to the Deep South, and even then, it's fairly unique to only a handful of denominations.
If you consider Minneapolis to be Deep South, then I agree with you. There are a lot of them up here too.
I was raised in Iowa in an evangelical fundamentalist church and they believe the bible is the literal word of God. All of it. I recently visited home and went to church with my parents (to avoid an ugly confrontation) and their church has grown dramatically in the 15 years since I attended regulary.
Don't kid yourself, these freaks are everywhere and spreading like a nasty virus.
The University of Minnesota has been replacing Sun hardware with LINUX (RedHat) in their computer labs since I attended in 1997. I had no idea we were so far ahead of our time.
You'll have to explain to me how this is any different than what Slashdot itself is all about - write a blurb about an article, maybe quote it, and link to it. This is not unique, a scam, or even interesting - it's the way things are.
And if, like you say, Rolland's journal entries are "lame rehashes of original and insightful technology articles", where can I find a source for fresh and interesting articles? That source used to be Slashdot.
How agreeable would it be if you found out your vote was counted for the wrong candidate? But since these machines leave no audit trail, I guess we'll never know.
There are plenty of other reasons. My main reason: I believe Bush will do more to protect this country than Kerry (who looks like a Basset hound, btw).
And your commentary on his appearance belies your true motivation; you don't think he looks like a President.
I still don't understand how a man who did everything to avoid military service is percieved as a better military leader than a man that persued military service and active duty. Is it Bush's willingness to start a conflict that people mistake for military leadership?
MS releases the source code in order to improve security thereby validating one of the main pillars of OSS - more eyes on the code makes for more secure code - although I'm sure you'll never hear them say that directly.
Although it's got a ways to go to catch up to Java, they are making fast progress over at Zope?
Word. Gentoo is damn cool!
Microsoft produces plenty of software that runs on Windows and OSX that's (surprise, surprise) actually free.
Bull Shit.
Microsoft does not do anything that it doesn't think will produce revenue. All those "free" programs that you speek of are certainly paid for, you just don't see it on the reciept when you bought the OS. Perhaps a lesson in accounting would help here.
It seems to me that SCO's big promise to investors is that they will find a way to collect money from LINUX users.
I think there are only 2 possible outcomes.
Outcome 1: SCO is wrong and looses it's claim.
Result: LINUX moves on unaffected and SCO goes the way of the Dodo.
Outcome 2: SCO wins it's claim.
Result: LINUX replaces the offending code and SCO no longer has grounds for a claim. Again, SCO becomes irrelavant if not bankrupt.
Has anyone heard of .bashrc?
Aren't you getting a little defensive? So you think that the comment "Why is it still so damn ugly?" is constructive? For your enlightenment, that type of comment is called an insult.
Gee wiz, I've never heard anyone suggest reading Apple's UI guide. What an orriginal suggestion.
My comment was not even slightly abusive. In fact it appears to be quite constructive. The guy just wanted to bitch and I suggested that he stop bitching and do something about it.
Oh, and do you really believe that slashdot is the appropriate forum for constructive critisism regarding UI design? Perhaps the KDE or GNOME forums would be more appropriate. Just a constructive suggestion.
"Maybe this is why some people are put of on linux."
If anyone is "put off" by the idea of helping out, screw them. I don't give a shit if people don't like Linux or feel put off, they should just stick to their Mac or Windows or whatever. Linux is by users, for users - I'm sure an intelligent, sensitive person like yourself already knows that. And being one of those users myself, I also know that you don't need to be a magician to write code.
So, just for you I'm going to regress to childhood - you grow up and take a little responsibility instead of assuming everyone else should fix it for you. Mommy still wiping your ass too?
Besides, this is slashdot - you know, the place where a bunch of idiots come to reveal their stupidity in a public forum.
"--THIS IS NOT A TROLL, THIS IS CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM--"
If you really want to be constructive, go get the source code and show us all how it's done.