You don't know what you're talking about. Weakly typed languages have nothing to do with script programmers not being able to specify types(what is that supposed to mean?), it is purely a convenience, and helps reduce the number of variables and lines of code required to get a job done. Really, it does.
Someone else already posted an example.
int a=1;
WriteLine("a is type {0} and has value {1}", a.GetType().ToString(), a.ToString());
The beauty of it is when you translate the text. The translator now has option of moving parameters around inside the text. Awesome.
While many/.ers believe we are entering the "digital dark ages", it looks like we may also be entering a "business dark ages." In the great US of A these days, litigation is equally as important as producing a product; to some companies it's MORE important, eg. SCO, Rambus, etc.. Claims such as the one made by Gates are common practice among business execs. Enron, MCI, SCO, Adelphia, MS, etc. Name a large business that is honest? There are a couple, but it is not the norm. Perhaps it never has been.
In any case, it is obvious to me that there are still a great many hurdles humanity must face before individuals actually have the freedom so many millions of people have died for in the last century alone. Or something... It is just painful to watch as large corporations push smaller companies and people around, all the while receiving the blessing of our "representatives." I don't know what else to do. Vote, write your representatives, protest. Anything we can legally do only marginally works, if that...
I've been using Mozilla for years with PNGs will full alpha transparency and have never seen anything like this. What versions of X, libpng, and Mozilla are you using?
I said, "fuck you, you ignorant prick" in response to ad hominem attack, regarding MY use of Linux(where you now admit to saying that your work is more important than mine, which is impossible for you to know, completely subjective, and an unbeleiveably arrogant statement on your part; that IS offensive ad hominem), from you. What I said surely was offensive, but as I said, I was defending myself.
In essence, you said to me, "Shut up, my work is more important than yours!"
ad hominem - Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason
It is quite possible to resort to ad hominem defensively.
2. You implied that I have nothing on the line w/regards to Linux, ie. that I don't use Linux for anything but a hobby. Furthermore, you flat out said that you have more to be concerned about than me, ie. that whatever I'm doing is less important than what you are doing; assumptions like that are offensive. You don't walk around the street telling people to get out of your way because your business is more important than theirs.
I did no such thing, and my ad hominen was defensive, not offensive. Furthermore, your assumptions about me were phrased in an intentionally offensive manner, ie. ad hominem.
I've also managed to refain from ad hominen attacks. You might want to try it some time.
1. You haven't, 2. you might want to try skipping stories you have no interest in other than posting flaimbait to.
No, that's completely wrong. The reason SCO can do what is does is because the legal landscape of the U.S. allows companies to do this. This is news, stuff that matters, and it best fits in "Your Rights Online." Again, if you're tired of this story, stop reading it and STFU.
And who are you to assume what *I* have on the line w/regards the SCO suit? I have plenty on the line - so fuck you, ignorant prick.
Seriously, I can't beleive this got modded +5 Insightful. This story does indeed have a bearing to "Your Rights Online", if you use or distribute Linux in any way shape or form.
And please, if you're not interested in the story, do not respond to it!
Hmmm... If you were to base a project on GPLed code, then go back and remove the GPLed code and only use what you yourself wrote and license it under a different license, or even add your part of the code to another project, you would not be in violation. The GPL deals only in code, none of this fuzzy 2x removed derivative bullshit.
Galeon 1.3.6 was just released - I've been using it all day without a crash. I did have 1.3.5 crash a little too requently, but not as much as you indicate.
If you got out form under your bridge more often:), you'd know that RedHat is dropping it's boxed Linux distrobution as a product - ie. you will no longer be able to buy RH Linux at Walmart and Best Buy.
They are also opening RedHat Linux up to more community influence.
This move is not based on altruism; RH just wants to focus on the part of their business where they make money, support services for businesses.
Not to flame, but IMNSHO, Epiphany is a big step in the wrong direction. Galeon was doing great - the gtk2 version is very stable, has nice features, and is completely uncluttered and not in the least confusing. Epiphany has added some really weird bookmark functionality; it basically allows you to put bookmarks in many categories, which is nice in principle, but in practice it really slows down people who use bookmarks a lot. There is no bookmark toolbar functionality, and the bookmarks open in a separate window instead of having a nice quick menu... Bookmarks are a very simple thing, and the Epiphany crew is overengineering it to the extreme.
It's also still rife with bugs, eg. the toolbar does not work correctly using the "text beside icons" setting in GNOME.
Furthermore, it's been dumbed down to a point where it is below the level of complexity most casual web users want - excluding the confusing bookmark functionality. If you like using tabs, Epiphany has made a wreck of them. The options for opening new links in tabs, etc. have all been removed.
Frankly, I don't think they know WTF they're doing...
I invite anyone who knows more about Epiphany than me to correct anything that is factually incorrect.
The development version of The GIMP uses GTK2, and to good effect to. Some versions are more stable than others, and overall I've had good luck with the GTK2 development version of The GIMP.
I've already explained the "Algebra" thing in a couple other posts.
And you're full of shit. The word "Algebra" was adapted into the English language; it wasn't _replaced_. It's not the same thing...
As for the "Freedom Fries" crap, nobody complains because nobody cares.
Bullshit. Every single American I have spoken to and mentioned "Freedom Fries" to, has responded by saying how ridiculous and embarrassing that is, and that they'd like to shove a bucket of "Freedom Fries" up the asses of the Congressmen who have nothing else better to do. And where the fuck have you been, it's been laughed at and derided by the press as well. Americans do care, and we are embarrassed. For now I'll ignore your flaimbait "apathetic pile of fat..." bullshit.
Frankly, I really don't care if the French choose to use a word over the English word, but this is the government doing this. And do you honestly believe they're doing it for any other reason than anti-America sentiment? Words don't need to be forced to "flow", pronunciation changes according to the language. The French government is flat out forcefully removing a word from French vocabulary(in government offices).
What is your response to the person who pointed out that French radio is only allowed to play so much American music? And we Americans get called racist, jingoist, uncultured, arrogant, etc..
Ladies and Gentlemen, smell the coffee, arrogance is par for the course when it comes to governments, and sometimes citizens living under those governments. The French people weren't demanding a new word to use, so in this case it's just the government being a bitch.
Calling it viral is implying that you can "catch" it, and it's an offensive implication if I've ever heard one. You don't "catch" code, you willingly and knowingly insert it into your work. Following your ridiculous reasoning, ALL proprietary code is viral as well, because you can't insert it into your own work and do whatever you like with it, but that's utter bullshit as well.
GPLed code acts as a lure. If the code is enticing enough to convince you to open your own code, then you bite. It's your own damn choice.
I'll answer that for you: none, or several, depending on how you look at it.
Why do you keep trolling on this story? Do you have nothing better to do? Stop being such a prick; if you're not interested in Perl 6... then why are you paying attention. Really, please, STFU.
Seriously, why the hell was the parent modded +5 insightful? Unbelievable....
Languages evolve, and that's all there is to it. Should development of C, C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. be stopped because they have acheived their initial goals?
No, of course not. Let them evolve, as they all have done and continue to do.
I think Tomb Raider has always been a really good idea, both as far as game potential and sales potential. Tomb Raider is essentially a female Indiana Jones with big boobs - who wouldn't mind that? Seriously. Mixing adventure with FPS/action with sex appeal - a good formula for a game. Unfortuneately, the gameplay, graphics, storylines, etc. have always been sub-par.
The company I work for is a small.com -- yes, we're profitable:), probably because we actually have a viable business model... Most of our servers are really cheap Intel boxes, and we have some very inexpensive server-grade Intel boxes for our most critical servers. The savings just from not paying the MS "tax" for server software is nearly half our yearly IT budget(minus salaries). It's been years since we've bought new servers; our last hardware purchase was several gigs of ram for under $500, and that was our first purchase in about 2 years. For us to use MS server software would AT LEAST triple our IT expenses.
For small IT companies, NOTHING compares to FOSS when it comes to cost of doing business.
Then there's the fact that when we come across bugs, incompatibilities, and other problems we can often just fix it ourselves in the time it would take to file a bug report with MS.
BTW, I use MS as my example here because we used to be an MS-based shop.
Interesting. What exactly is "Second Life"? I was clicking around the site, looking at screenshots etc., but I'm on a modem here and it's abysmally slow... From the description it sounds like it's trying to be like the online world in "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson(and other similar virtual worlds of course). It looks interesting, but often these things are glorified chat rooms with avatars.
PS. great commentary on socialism/capitalism w/regards to FOSS.
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You don't know what you're talking about. Weakly typed languages have nothing to do with script programmers not being able to specify types(what is that supposed to mean?), it is purely a convenience, and helps reduce the number of variables and lines of code required to get a job done. Really, it does.
Someone else already posted an example.
int a=1; WriteLine("a is type {0} and has value {1}", a.GetType().ToString(), a.ToString());
The beauty of it is when you translate the text. The translator now has option of moving parameters around inside the text. Awesome.
I admit, that is pretty cool.
In any case, it is obvious to me that there are still a great many hurdles humanity must face before individuals actually have the freedom so many millions of people have died for in the last century alone. Or something... It is just painful to watch as large corporations push smaller companies and people around, all the while receiving the blessing of our "representatives." I don't know what else to do. Vote, write your representatives, protest. Anything we can legally do only marginally works, if that...
"Civilization is only skin deep"
In essence, you said to me, "Shut up, my work is more important than yours!"
And I respond by saying, "Fuck you!"
Ie. Defensive ad hominem.
ad hominem - Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason
It is quite possible to resort to ad hominem defensively.
2. You implied that I have nothing on the line w/regards to Linux, ie. that I don't use Linux for anything but a hobby. Furthermore, you flat out said that you have more to be concerned about than me, ie. that whatever I'm doing is less important than what you are doing; assumptions like that are offensive. You don't walk around the street telling people to get out of your way because your business is more important than theirs.
If you're not interested, don't read it.
I did no such thing, and my ad hominen was defensive, not offensive. Furthermore, your assumptions about me were phrased in an intentionally offensive manner, ie. ad hominem.
I've also managed to refain from ad hominen attacks. You might want to try it some time.
1. You haven't, 2. you might want to try skipping stories you have no interest in other than posting flaimbait to.
And who are you to assume what *I* have on the line w/regards the SCO suit? I have plenty on the line - so fuck you, ignorant prick.
Seriously, I can't beleive this got modded +5 Insightful. This story does indeed have a bearing to "Your Rights Online", if you use or distribute Linux in any way shape or form.
And please, if you're not interested in the story, do not respond to it!
*rolls eyes at the idioacy*
They are also opening RedHat Linux up to more community influence.
This move is not based on altruism; RH just wants to focus on the part of their business where they make money, support services for businesses.
It's also still rife with bugs, eg. the toolbar does not work correctly using the "text beside icons" setting in GNOME.
Furthermore, it's been dumbed down to a point where it is below the level of complexity most casual web users want - excluding the confusing bookmark functionality. If you like using tabs, Epiphany has made a wreck of them. The options for opening new links in tabs, etc. have all been removed.
Frankly, I don't think they know WTF they're doing...
I invite anyone who knows more about Epiphany than me to correct anything that is factually incorrect.
YMMV.
And you're full of shit. The word "Algebra" was adapted into the English language; it wasn't _replaced_. It's not the same thing...
As for the "Freedom Fries" crap, nobody complains because nobody cares.
Bullshit. Every single American I have spoken to and mentioned "Freedom Fries" to, has responded by saying how ridiculous and embarrassing that is, and that they'd like to shove a bucket of "Freedom Fries" up the asses of the Congressmen who have nothing else better to do. And where the fuck have you been, it's been laughed at and derided by the press as well. Americans do care, and we are embarrassed. For now I'll ignore your flaimbait "apathetic pile of fat..." bullshit.
Frankly, I really don't care if the French choose to use a word over the English word, but this is the government doing this. And do you honestly believe they're doing it for any other reason than anti-America sentiment? Words don't need to be forced to "flow", pronunciation changes according to the language. The French government is flat out forcefully removing a word from French vocabulary(in government offices).
What is your response to the person who pointed out that French radio is only allowed to play so much American music? And we Americans get called racist, jingoist, uncultured, arrogant, etc..
Ladies and Gentlemen, smell the coffee, arrogance is par for the course when it comes to governments, and sometimes citizens living under those governments. The French people weren't demanding a new word to use, so in this case it's just the government being a bitch.
GPLed code acts as a lure. If the code is enticing enough to convince you to open your own code, then you bite. It's your own damn choice.
I'll answer that for you: none, or several, depending on how you look at it.
Why do you keep trolling on this story? Do you have nothing better to do? Stop being such a prick; if you're not interested in Perl 6... then why are you paying attention. Really, please, STFU.
Languages evolve, and that's all there is to it. Should development of C, C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. be stopped because they have acheived their initial goals?
No, of course not. Let them evolve, as they all have done and continue to do.
For small IT companies, NOTHING compares to FOSS when it comes to cost of doing business.
Then there's the fact that when we come across bugs, incompatibilities, and other problems we can often just fix it ourselves in the time it would take to file a bug report with MS.
BTW, I use MS as my example here because we used to be an MS-based shop.
PS. great commentary on socialism/capitalism w/regards to FOSS.
Cheers.
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Social spending far exceeds military spending... but facts are meaningless aren't they?
And really, to the US, $5b is chump change anyway.