Quite frankly I've never seen the point. C is a powerful tool that has proven its worth for decades now. There's a lesson in all of this, never buy into your own PR. Proving itself by what?
Do you know that C is either never used, or being abandoned by web-sites and large business applications? And you know that more and more open-source applications and commercial embedded applications are written in Java,.NET/Mono or higher-level languages such as Python?
Most C programs are fast because their structure is *simple* - or more accurately, primitive. There are no abstraction or OO of any kind, and those which manage to implemente this in C, such as GNOME/GTK, are just as slow as programs written in Java/Mono or dynamic languages, if not even slower.
C is the assembly language in 90's; It has no use except in areas where performance and memory requirement is critical and cannot be achieved by compiler or runtime optimization.
Why don't they just call it "I don't like the sites so you can't visit" list??! Since the sites on list are down forever they can be claimed to have anything evil or whatever!
One example you use is a comparison of RedHat Workstation for $299 versus Windows XP Professional for $140. That RedHat Workstation you're buying comes with a fairly nice support contract...
Have you ever used that support? One of the customers I meet encountered a kernel panic problem with RHEL and tried to call them for help, but all they got is RH's guy asking for some stupid code and told us to wait; after more than 10 minutes, RH finally replied that there is no telephone support for this contract, so we have to use email instead (and probably wait forever)!
I seriously doubt the customer will ever consider to buy this kind of support again.
You have to caculate from what they give and what they take.
Being one of the biggest contributors is no execuse for their extremely overpriced products, considering the code is not mainly written by themselves but only *contributed*.
Neo-Libertarian Natural Rights are a joke, they are a made up set up beliefs accept on on faith with no scientific or social consensus to back it. So you have to decided who choses what the rights of the people are or else they will all disagree which leads to mayhem and chaos. It's the same flaw that Anarchy (no mater how good the concept maybe) has. So a system of determining rights agreed upon by the people is the only way that a society can exist with any semblance of stability.
So it's okay for a nation to kill all the rich men and take their properties, if more than 50% of people agree?
Redhat and Novel employ programmers, too. In fact, the paid programmers make a tremendous contribution to all of this FOSS we benefit from.
But since they don't spend any more than what MS does, how can they charge much more? Their support is crap (RH) and the system tools (SUSE) look and function exactly like old ncurses apps with a GUI, even worse than M$'s.
Maybe they're just greedy companies who want to extract as much money as possible from the OSS trend?
Seriously, if you are old enough (or ballsy enough) to have control over your own life then leave the country if you don't like it. If you really want to stay but don't like the rules then work towards fixing them. Don't just sound like an asshole spouting out neo-libertarian bullshit like it's some sort of "natural right."
In a nation without any sort of nature right, the people could vote to kill all those rich bastards like bill gates and take their money away - and that's exactly what the communists did.
The difference between a free world and a non-free one is not democracy, but the principle to protect everyone's basic freedom. Without this the US is no different than nazi germany or communist china and it doesn't deserve to exist.
Becuase a window is managed by the application and not the OS.
BTW you can always use win32wm to force moving a dead window, and Win+D to force minimize.
It's people like you that make our social unsafe, killing and jailing those who don't believe in your crap, and declaring them criminal even before they touch you.
You should be outlawed, not those junkies.
Absoutely no.
But who are you to decide what is right or wrong for people? You're not a god, so stop asking people and begin helping them, if you believe what they do really hurt themselves.
Israel has the right to defend itself. Frankly, they've shown incredible restraint considering they've been under attack incessantly since they were formed (now, their formation we can discuss the legality of, same with the legality of the existence of the UN in the first place...)
Their methods or legality don't matter. Both sides are stupid to believe the bloody land is somehow sacred and they must live there - UN should just leave them alone and let the two groups fight to extinction.
How can you be sure Google's wouldn't have the same problems when it gets load as heavy as SourceForge's? Besides they may not want to handle it even if they could.
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I read the whole article and it seems very weird.
Isn't broadband supposed to be much cheaper than dial-up unless you want fast uploading (> 2Mbit/s)??
BTW I thought there is no more dial-up on earth now. Is this some archived article from 1998??
It's not open for discussion. IMHO anyone who tries to censor anything should be expelled because he doesn't deserve to live in a free country.
Do you know that C is either never used, or being abandoned by web-sites and large business applications? And you know that more and more open-source applications and commercial embedded applications are written in Java,
Most C programs are fast because their structure is *simple* - or more accurately, primitive. There are no abstraction or OO of any kind, and those which manage to implemente this in C, such as GNOME/GTK, are just as slow as programs written in Java/Mono or dynamic languages, if not even slower.
C is the assembly language in 90's; It has no use except in areas where performance and memory requirement is critical and cannot be achieved by compiler or runtime optimization.
Why don't they just call it "I don't like the sites so you can't visit" list??! Since the sites on list are down forever they can be claimed to have anything evil or whatever!
homework is what I found most annoying in school days, even worse than tests. nobody should not bring work home.
They can't, but this gives them one more legal right to remove the bloggers they dont like.
LOL!
It's not about self-discipline, rule, or evil ads or what the kids want.
The biggest problem is their lack of respect and compassion to other human beings. The source? Look at our parents and the presidents!
eMule is the eDonkey client ;)
- konqueror (browser) - screw up with a lot of firefox-compatible websites. Anyone makes kde UI for gecko??
- kopete - definitely superior to gaim, but lacks cute trillian animations!
- amarok - the playlist tree makes me mad, why can't it just be simple and show me genre/artist/album?? (PS: like itunes or wxmusik)
- krita - the UI simply sucks, especially when you have to open 5+ small images (ex: theme decorations).
- koffice - openoffice is bad enough but koffice is just unusable for my word documents, a lot of pictures/diagrams missing and chinese doesn't work.
- (vmware-server alternative??)
well, that's all of my complaints over the 10 years.What fact? that US helped us many decades ago??
All the enemies americans have today are made-up ones, like Iran and Iraq. Yankees are getting more and more crazy everyday.
*sigh*
I seriously doubt the customer will ever consider to buy this kind of support again.
You have to caculate from what they give and what they take.
Being one of the biggest contributors is no execuse for their extremely overpriced products, considering the code is not mainly written by themselves but only *contributed*.
Maybe they're just greedy companies who want to extract as much money as possible from the OSS trend?
The difference between a free world and a non-free one is not democracy, but the principle to protect everyone's basic freedom. Without this the US is no different than nazi germany or communist china and it doesn't deserve to exist.
Becuase a window is managed by the application and not the OS. BTW you can always use win32wm to force moving a dead window, and Win+D to force minimize.
Why do apps have to change everytime M$ makes a new theme??
A simple reason: they have to rewrite or check a lot of code because the old code base is crap, unlike linux's or OS/X's.
It's people like you that make our social unsafe, killing and jailing those who don't believe in your crap, and declaring them criminal even before they touch you. You should be outlawed, not those junkies.
Absoutely no. But who are you to decide what is right or wrong for people? You're not a god, so stop asking people and begin helping them, if you believe what they do really hurt themselves.
Israel has the right to defend itself. Frankly, they've shown incredible restraint considering they've been under attack incessantly since they were formed (now, their formation we can discuss the legality of, same with the legality of the existence of the UN in the first place...)
Their methods or legality don't matter. Both sides are stupid to believe the bloody land is somehow sacred and they must live there - UN should just leave them alone and let the two groups fight to extinction.
How can you be sure Google's wouldn't have the same problems when it gets load as heavy as SourceForge's? Besides they may not want to handle it even if they could.
Anyone who would execute attachments from spam emails are fools, and they would click "YES" whether an extension is signed or not.