Why are you assuming that Python is more productive?
It's what I've read, and it chimes with my own experience.
I would love to see someone try and implement some of the code I have written (high-performance numerical work, image processing) in raw Python.
If you want high-performance numerical code Java isn't that suitable either, you want C or fortran at a minimum and probably hand-coded assembler. But I've seen plenty of serious image processing done in python, remember the recent jigsaw solving story?
This isn't a hard concept to understand. Really, it isn't. If you're downloading music that you see on CDs in stores, for free, it's illegal.
Nonsense. There are more than enough bands that sell CDs and make their music available free, and many more will freely release a few sample tracks from the album they're selling.
I installed woody on an SS10 with no difficulty at all (It has no cdrom drive, so I couldn't (at that stage) install sarge directly). Then I just did a dist-upgrade to sarge, which requires a bit of jumping through hoops as both the kernel and libc need to be upgraded and either is incompatible with the other, but the procedure is clearly explained on the website and I managed it with few difficulties.
I have since installed gentoo, using the standard install process, and it's worked pretty much perfectly - only gripe I have is it won't automatically generate an initrd with the right scsi modules like it can on x86, but I can live with that. So much for no linux distro having supported it for half a decade - I don't think gentoo's even been around that long.
Firstly, I think the worst stories are those with few URLs. Unless it's entirely content-free, a link to joe's blog can only add content for the discussion. It may take more work, but I think if a story only contains one or two articles, it would be better to add links to more. I know we can just google it, but it's not the same.
Secondly, if someone in the pub was talking with as poor grammar as many of the submissions here, I would at the very least make a joke at their expense on it, probably yell at them, and if I was sufficiently drunk, hit them. I don't think I'm a big complainer - I've never bitched about a Roland whateverhisnameis article, a "slashvertisement", or an opinion on the end. Bad grammar just makes the article harder to read. It isn't a question of not being in the dictionary - I'd quite happily read a submission on the lines of "'sup dawgs, me and me homies foun' this pimpin' site about....". It's genuinely confusing, requires me to read the sentence again, think about it, figure out what they're actually saying. Which is irritating. An ungrammatical submission is, to me at least, far more annoying than any of the things you list that you do correct.
If a site is standards compliant then it shouldn't have to worry about every browser out there. If the browsers can't render correctly then it is the maker of the browser who is in the wrong. Supporting IE is just a sad must because of it's ~75% market share - nobody else deserves special consideration.
It seems to be many sites will write what works in IE, fix it to work in firefox, and that's it. Firefox has pretty good support for broken HTML, which means a site put together with this method doesn't always work in the more fragile KHTML. Just my experience.
The kernel maintainers have as policy that they won't give you a stable source interface, if you want your driver to work well you should get it into the kernel (See Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt). That's fair enough, but a policy like that gives them a responsibility to accept things into the kernel.
Unfortunately a duopoly is little better in getting people to stick to standards. As a konqueror and occasionally opera user I see a lot of sites which will work in IE and firefox but nothing else.
No, I stated no programmer had such a machine. The it doesn't exist statement was about the lack of a distro for the machine - I suppose I should have qualified that with "maintained", but the point stands.
Government funded "blue skies" projects happen all the time - you can see it as a dicksize thing if you want, but it's just being sensible. And is allowing rich people to have a better life than everyone else any worthier a motivation than trying to kill people?
The editors sit there, making a nice salary off us. They have only one thing they are required to do in the whole world, it's not very hard, it's something they enjoy, and for everything else their time is their own, they can enjoy themselves enormously. But they can't even do this one thing properly.
Return them for being goods not as described. If they won't take them, threaten to sue. You bought an audio CD, taken to mean a disc as per the red book specification, and what you got wasn't that, so you're entitled to a refund.
The running water and sanitary toilet provided in government-provided apartments were once luxuries enjoyed only by kings; but if the kings had not paid for the first plumbed house, we'd still be walking to the well and crapping in a hole.
No, if the government hadn't funded the provision of sewerage systems we'd be like that. Trickle-down doesn't work.
It's not MS that was against fair trade regulations, they're saying that a resolution aimed specifically at MS may be against the regulations. As for why they're doing it now, my guess is they've decided linux has become good enough to replace windows.
They didn't remove it, it was just never added to the new program (windows printer and fax viewer) when it was written. If this was there as a fix in win9x then this shows why it's important to update specifications with security fixes, but it could just as easily be different application writers taking different approaches and one of them incidentally fixing the flaw.
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It's what I've read, and it chimes with my own experience.
I would love to see someone try and implement some of the code I have written (high-performance numerical work, image processing) in raw Python.
If you want high-performance numerical code Java isn't that suitable either, you want C or fortran at a minimum and probably hand-coded assembler. But I've seen plenty of serious image processing done in python, remember the recent jigsaw solving story?
I don't have one but my friend does. It's working fine (pings)...yep, it's working fine.
No-one seriously claims that. If productivity matters, why are you using Java rather than the 5-10x more productive Python?
That's the name of the license.
Nonsense. There are more than enough bands that sell CDs and make their music available free, and many more will freely release a few sample tracks from the album they're selling.
Oh yeah, because no other company would ever remove something privacy-invading under immense user outcry. Get real.
I have since installed gentoo, using the standard install process, and it's worked pretty much perfectly - only gripe I have is it won't automatically generate an initrd with the right scsi modules like it can on x86, but I can live with that. So much for no linux distro having supported it for half a decade - I don't think gentoo's even been around that long.
You save the text message. Duh...
Secondly, if someone in the pub was talking with as poor grammar as many of the submissions here, I would at the very least make a joke at their expense on it, probably yell at them, and if I was sufficiently drunk, hit them. I don't think I'm a big complainer - I've never bitched about a Roland whateverhisnameis article, a "slashvertisement", or an opinion on the end. Bad grammar just makes the article harder to read. It isn't a question of not being in the dictionary - I'd quite happily read a submission on the lines of "'sup dawgs, me and me homies foun' this pimpin' site about....". It's genuinely confusing, requires me to read the sentence again, think about it, figure out what they're actually saying. Which is irritating. An ungrammatical submission is, to me at least, far more annoying than any of the things you list that you do correct.
It seems to be many sites will write what works in IE, fix it to work in firefox, and that's it. Firefox has pretty good support for broken HTML, which means a site put together with this method doesn't always work in the more fragile KHTML. Just my experience.
Yes it does. There is no maintained i586 distro because no programmer has such a machine.
The kernel maintainers have as policy that they won't give you a stable source interface, if you want your driver to work well you should get it into the kernel (See Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt). That's fair enough, but a policy like that gives them a responsibility to accept things into the kernel.
Unfortunately a duopoly is little better in getting people to stick to standards. As a konqueror and occasionally opera user I see a lot of sites which will work in IE and firefox but nothing else.
No, I stated no programmer had such a machine. The it doesn't exist statement was about the lack of a distro for the machine - I suppose I should have qualified that with "maintained", but the point stands.
No. The rich are overwhelmingly rich because they were born into a rich family and the system is set up (by the rich) so that the rich stay rich.
Government funded "blue skies" projects happen all the time - you can see it as a dicksize thing if you want, but it's just being sensible. And is allowing rich people to have a better life than everyone else any worthier a motivation than trying to kill people?
The editors sit there, making a nice salary off us. They have only one thing they are required to do in the whole world, it's not very hard, it's something they enjoy, and for everything else their time is their own, they can enjoy themselves enormously. But they can't even do this one thing properly.
Return them for being goods not as described. If they won't take them, threaten to sue. You bought an audio CD, taken to mean a disc as per the red book specification, and what you got wasn't that, so you're entitled to a refund.
Plumbing would have been discovered via government-funded scientific research. Not sure whether it was currently.
You can do just as full programs in scripting languages as you would in any other, though personally I agree I wouldn't use perl for a big project.
No, if the government hadn't funded the provision of sewerage systems we'd be like that. Trickle-down doesn't work.
I just did. It gets me a load of pages from ~1999, when programmers did have such machines.
It's google that's the new apple. Slashdot has always had a large population of apple zealots.
It's not MS that was against fair trade regulations, they're saying that a resolution aimed specifically at MS may be against the regulations. As for why they're doing it now, my guess is they've decided linux has become good enough to replace windows.
They didn't remove it, it was just never added to the new program (windows printer and fax viewer) when it was written. If this was there as a fix in win9x then this shows why it's important to update specifications with security fixes, but it could just as easily be different application writers taking different approaches and one of them incidentally fixing the flaw.