Microsoft is a bit of a passion fingers. Maybe they want a bill which endorses anal rape between non-consenting (and often underage) companies? With whips, broken glass and upside down in a tub.
GirlOnGirl might be fine by some extant implementations of Christianity, however the manual says...
or this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature, and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. -
Romans 1:26-27, KJV
In attempting to differentiate between religion and non-religion, you have arrogantly assumed that you have no religion, and that this position is somehow superior to any other religious position.
Your religion is called "Materialism" or more formally "Atheism", although an Atheist can - technically - believe in supernatural but non-divine actions, which a Materialist cannot.
Do not confuse religion with sacerdotalism (a cult of priests), no robes, stained glass, Vatican or prayer is required to qualify as a religion.
The GPP is not being held to a different standard, what's happening is that you haven't noticed your own philosophical axioms; think of a fish not noticing water. What the GPP has done wrong is (exactly as you've done) assume that his values apply evenly to more or less his entire audience.
If 100 people grabbed the codebase and started extending or refactoring it independently of Sun, how would Sun react? I don't know how NeoOffice interacts, but maybe think NeoOffice on steroids?
Short story: more people will be able to work on it, it will be more portable and more fun to work with, such a change is likely to cause beneficial rearchitecting.
That said, Ruby is not lightning compared with C, but OTOH you can get reliable, functional things written in it far faster than either C or Java. The advantages are that Ruby:
is far lighter weight
is more likely to be actually enjoyable to write code in
is completely Open
is highly portable
has already been integrated into lots of other stuff
It might also cause some rearchitecting, which has done other projects (Samba4, KDE, Mozilla, Apache) a world of good. Ditching the jmillstone and debloating the monolithic core of OOo has to be a good thing, yes?
I'd like to see the hardest stuff done in C or something else a bit (faster and) more debuggable than C++ and invoked from a Ruby shell. Development would flog along, then, and anything that turned out to be really useful (ie invaluable to a few people or mildly useful to many) can if necessary be converted to C and hand-optimised for speed. I say "if necessary" because Ruby turns out to be startlingly efficient from time to time.
But yes, divorcing it from the requirement for a resource-hungry interpreter for all of the fruit, bells and whistles would be a good start.
Also, to clarify on the S3 cards, the original Tridents didn't suck much more than their peers, but a lot of said peers went through revolutions and quantum improvements (and other got killed off), but the Tridents just missed out.
The current FOSS ATI X drivers are based on information (and, OTTOMH, code) released by ATI and good for cards up to the 9200 series. Higher-powered cards will run also, but the more advanced hardware features aren't used.
NVidia didn't even release the source to a commodity item like their nForce LAN chipset, so we had to clean-room our own for that one.
The Volari cards look good. I'm pleased that the hard-working lab-rats there have finally managed to convince management to Open their 3D drivers too (they Opened their 2D stuff more than a year ago). Now all I need to do is fine someone in Western Australia who sells the XGI cards other than as a novelty item.
The VIA S3 cards suck. S3 cards have always sucked, from their horrid little every-one-different pre-Virge series on down. The CyberBlades sucked less, but were still not in the same league as their competitors, not even on par with Intel's basic integrated chipset. At least now we might be better equipped to work around some of the suckiness.
Odds are reasonable that it died from some other cause (knocked off desk, smashed display; staffer tripped and dumped coffee into the works; tech snapped one of the aformentioned delicate ribbons; etc) and that the part you need still functions.
If you can locate a ready local supply of such, you might be able to not only fix the original but merge some of the junkers to make working displays as well. Doing this well requires either a large shed or a low-rainfall region. (-:
Tridge reverse-engineered it by knowing basically what it did, and looking at the data files. He wrote rsync essentially from scratch, and reverse engineered that chaotic mess which Microsoft likes to refer to as CIFS. He's an effing genius in a few areas, notably compression, diffs and file management. BitKeeper's processes would've been a walkover for Tridge to replicate independently.
Tridge is highly ethical, more ethical than me. Susan wouldn't've married him otherwise. And they have a truly excellent frog. So until you actually know what you're talking about, stick to lurking. )-;
A hundred amps, intense heat and sputter. Ten seconds a drive. Hard to go past that for making data unrecoverable. (-:
Good luck RMAing the drive - "Uh, it jus' come apart in me 'and, surr" - but OTOH anything you do to erase the data on a dead drive is likely to void the warranty anyway."
Slashdot Mirror
...is a neat tool for going wrong with confidence.
Thank you for the QED, but also thank you for pointing out the inanity in the grandparent post. (-:
Microsoft is a bit of a passion fingers. Maybe they want a bill which endorses anal rape between non-consenting (and often underage) companies? With whips, broken glass and upside down in a tub.
GirlOnGirl might be fine by some extant implementations of Christianity, however the manual says...
In attempting to differentiate between religion and non-religion, you have arrogantly assumed that you have no religion, and that this position is somehow superior to any other religious position.
Your religion is called "Materialism" or more formally "Atheism", although an Atheist can - technically - believe in supernatural but non-divine actions, which a Materialist cannot.
Do not confuse religion with sacerdotalism (a cult of priests), no robes, stained glass, Vatican or prayer is required to qualify as a religion.
The GPP is not being held to a different standard, what's happening is that you haven't noticed your own philosophical axioms; think of a fish not noticing water. What the GPP has done wrong is (exactly as you've done) assume that his values apply evenly to more or less his entire audience.
Arthur pulled it out of his a^Hscrabble bag (which was probably made from Gagravaar's(sp?) hide) and it works just fine in radix 13.
If 100 people grabbed the codebase and started extending or refactoring it independently of Sun, how would Sun react? I don't know how NeoOffice interacts, but maybe think NeoOffice on steroids?
...that they're actually short of coders right now.
Yes, monolithism and opacity is a problem. It is the specific reason why I haven't yet contributed to OOo (I want to fix the HTML output).
Short story: more people will be able to work on it, it will be more portable and more fun to work with, such a change is likely to cause beneficial rearchitecting.
- is far lighter weight
- is more likely to be actually enjoyable to write code in
- is completely Open
- is highly portable
- has already been integrated into lots of other stuff
It might also cause some rearchitecting, which has done other projects (Samba4, KDE, Mozilla, Apache) a world of good. Ditching the jmillstone and debloating the monolithic core of OOo has to be a good thing, yes?Even C would probably be faster to develop.
I'd like to see the hardest stuff done in C or something else a bit (faster and) more debuggable than C++ and invoked from a Ruby shell. Development would flog along, then, and anything that turned out to be really useful (ie invaluable to a few people or mildly useful to many) can if necessary be converted to C and hand-optimised for speed. I say "if necessary" because Ruby turns out to be startlingly efficient from time to time.
But yes, divorcing it from the requirement for a resource-hungry interpreter for all of the fruit, bells and whistles would be a good start.
...were a bit of a puzzler in the previous experiments, where the speed reduction hadn't been so pronounced.
...try this.
Where's the [Edit] button on this article?
(about the clever disguises, that is)
...how far away is slashdot from comment #12345678?
Also, to clarify on the S3 cards, the original Tridents didn't suck much more than their peers, but a lot of said peers went through revolutions and quantum improvements (and other got killed off), but the Tridents just missed out.
The current FOSS ATI X drivers are based on information (and, OTTOMH, code) released by ATI and good for cards up to the 9200 series. Higher-powered cards will run also, but the more advanced hardware features aren't used.
NVidia didn't even release the source to a commodity item like their nForce LAN chipset, so we had to clean-room our own for that one.
The Volari cards look good. I'm pleased that the hard-working lab-rats there have finally managed to convince management to Open their 3D drivers too (they Opened their 2D stuff more than a year ago). Now all I need to do is fine someone in Western Australia who sells the XGI cards other than as a novelty item.
The VIA S3 cards suck. S3 cards have always sucked, from their horrid little every-one-different pre-Virge series on down. The CyberBlades sucked less, but were still not in the same league as their competitors, not even on par with Intel's basic integrated chipset. At least now we might be better equipped to work around some of the suckiness.
Odds are reasonable that it died from some other cause (knocked off desk, smashed display; staffer tripped and dumped coffee into the works; tech snapped one of the aformentioned delicate ribbons; etc) and that the part you need still functions.
If you can locate a ready local supply of such, you might be able to not only fix the original but merge some of the junkers to make working displays as well. Doing this well requires either a large shed or a low-rainfall region. (-:
"My aircraft's flight software has crashed, which means it's going to crash, so the enemy are escaping."
...because there was no source printed on the casing? Or insisting on calling your new SDI weapon a GNU/Laser?
Be careful what you ask for, you might just get it.
Trying to remove all religion from society would be like trying to launder mud.
-1, Too Reasonable
This one, in case you're wondering.
Er, and you don't "brake" speed limits, you "break" them.
Tridge wasn't using the software.
Tridge reverse-engineered it by knowing basically what it did, and looking at the data files. He wrote rsync essentially from scratch, and reverse engineered that chaotic mess which Microsoft likes to refer to as CIFS. He's an effing genius in a few areas, notably compression, diffs and file management. BitKeeper's processes would've been a walkover for Tridge to replicate independently.
Tridge is highly ethical, more ethical than me. Susan wouldn't've married him otherwise. And they have a truly excellent frog. So until you actually know what you're talking about, stick to lurking. )-;
A hundred amps, intense heat and sputter. Ten seconds a drive. Hard to go past that for making data unrecoverable. (-:
Good luck RMAing the drive - "Uh, it jus' come apart in me 'and, surr" - but OTOH anything you do to erase the data on a dead drive is likely to void the warranty anyway."