You joke, but during the Suharto regime in Indonesia (1967 - 1998) they held elections and a large part of the population thought they lived in a democracy as a result. They had a very large, and politically diverse, number of parties and they allowed them all to have rallies etc.
Come election day, nothing ever changed and the people were more content than they would have been without the illusion of political contention, it was very educational to watch.
It's a functional language following in the footsteps of the ML category of languages, but written for the.NET platform. It's open source with a patent grant, and the F# team has made sure each release has both a.NET and a Mono installer.
So, almost, but not completely useless unless you're an academic with too much time on your hands?
ActiveX has been deprecated since the release of.NET, almost a decade ago.
Can we move on, please?
We try, but the problem is that activex webapps are like the crazy ex-girlfriend. When you least expect it they've broken into your apartment, stolen your wallet and sold your new TV on eBay.
There seems to be more or less universal condemnation for the website owner who plagiarized recipes and magazine articles. This is at odds with the general Slash-titude that information wants to be free - as in beer - especially if the creative work in question is a song or a movie.
How is copying another's writings (to which you have no claim) and making it publicly available any different than taking music or movies and making them available?
The difference here is that the magazine is taking other peoples content, with no compensation, then SELLING advertising space. The magazine is turning a profit. I'm sure that you'd get very little support from Slashdotters if you burned CDs and sold them on the street.
In the real world day-to-day weather conditions can actually kill you if you're stupid. I strongly suspect you have never walked around in weather so cold that the humidity of your breath freezes your nose hairs and if the wind comes up you have to turn around and hide your face until it dies down.
Man up here and you die son. You die a fool, not a hero.
"Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood..."
Oh, it still is like that in some respects [wikipedia.org].
Dude, have you been celibate all this time?
They sent out a memo years ago saying geeks were allowed to get laid. Since at least Y2K as I recall we're been encouraged to go forth and get busy (I think that was the exact wording).
Man, you need to check your mail-slot more often.:-P
Those who have stayed true to the faith will recognize this as false. Cast out gstoddart as he is unclean and shall surely lead us unto damnation!
Pray with me brothers! Pray that we may keep our hand built machines clean from this filth of lust and commercial software!
Our Stallman, that art in glibc, hallowed be thy code...
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
R.A.H. - "Time Enough for Love"
I'm afraid quoting George Carlin isn't relevant to me. This attitude of "I didn't vote, so I'm not responsible for who gets elected" is complete BS.
Here's a clue, Carlin was a comedian. He said it because it's funny, not necessarily because it's true. You might want to investigate the concepts of irony and sarcasm in humor.
The Secret SMS Replicator developed by DLP Mobile to help lovers find out if their partners are cheating
Call me "old fashioned, but they don't sound much like lovers to me!
I'm mystified how people cannot see that when you have reached the point in the relationship when you consider hiring an investigator or installing spyware it's long past time to move on.
That's the kind of mistake that could be hunted down for ages with no help from the compiler/interpreter as there is no syntax error...
That's exactly my experience.
In real-world group development environments you often find yourself debugging code written by people several years before who are no longer on the project. If the example above had been written by somebody else then discovering the gap between intent and implementation is a nasty PITA.
I love python, but I also love { }
(I'm the prick on your team who insists in code reviews that every if/then/else try/catch for/next MUST ALWAYS BE BRACKETED no matter how small and trivial they are...)
I've written thousands of lines of python, one of the programs I'm most proud of was pure OO python. But the tab stop shit just drives me barmy... much the same way that java iterator syntax makes me want to throw things. Doesn't stop me from using it, just a blemish on an otherwise good canvad.
The one example I've seen is also in Harmony and probably Suns contribution to the GPL project.
I'm yet to see clear evidence of whether Oracle is just pulling a SCO because they really don't understand their own IP or if somebody screwed up badly with Harmony and Dalvik.
My opinion, for which I have zero evidence, is that Oracle is pulling a SCO and that the code they're bitching about is just one short step from being public domain.
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I keep voting and nothing new happens.
You joke, but during the Suharto regime in Indonesia (1967 - 1998) they held elections and a large part of the population thought they lived in a democracy as a result. They had a very large, and politically diverse, number of parties and they allowed them all to have rallies etc.
Come election day, nothing ever changed and the people were more content than they would have been without the illusion of political contention, it was very educational to watch.
It's a functional language following in the footsteps of the ML category of languages, but written for the .NET platform. It's open source with a patent grant, and the F# team has made sure each release has both a .NET and a Mono installer.
So, almost, but not completely useless unless you're an academic with too much time on your hands?
ActiveX has been deprecated since the release of .NET, almost a decade ago.
Can we move on, please?
We try, but the problem is that activex webapps are like the crazy ex-girlfriend. When you least expect it they've broken into your apartment, stolen your wallet and sold your new TV on eBay.
There seems to be more or less universal condemnation for the website owner who plagiarized recipes and magazine articles. This is at odds with the general Slash-titude that information wants to be free - as in beer - especially if the creative work in question is a song or a movie.
How is copying another's writings (to which you have no claim) and making it publicly available any different than taking music or movies and making them available?
The difference here is that the magazine is taking other peoples content, with no compensation, then SELLING advertising space. The magazine is turning a profit. I'm sure that you'd get very little support from Slashdotters if you burned CDs and sold them on the street.
If BSG accomplished one thing, it was in showing a version of humanity even stupider than our own -- surely a remarkable feat.
After yesterday, I'm not sure there could ever be a version of humanity stupider than our own.
Perhaps the group that occupy Somalia? They make the Tea Party look like Mensa.
Don't confuse the real world with the location you chose to live in.
I do hope you were aiming for irony.
Man up, and don't wear gloves.
In the real world day-to-day weather conditions can actually kill you if you're stupid. I strongly suspect you have never walked around in weather so cold that the humidity of your breath freezes your nose hairs and if the wind comes up you have to turn around and hide your face until it dies down.
Man up here and you die son. You die a fool, not a hero.
Dude, have you been celibate all this time?
They sent out a memo years ago saying geeks were allowed to get laid. Since at least Y2K as I recall we're been encouraged to go forth and get busy (I think that was the exact wording).
Man, you need to check your mail-slot more often. :-P
Those who have stayed true to the faith will recognize this as false. Cast out gstoddart as he is unclean and shall surely lead us unto damnation!
Pray with me brothers! Pray that we may keep our hand built machines clean from this filth of lust and commercial software!
Our Stallman, that art in glibc, hallowed be thy code...
Want so show someone how little you care? There's an app for that!
There's nothing I can say that will make it better, so I won't try. I too have been betrayed, healing is a long, slow, painful process. Hang in there.
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
R.A.H. - "Time Enough for Love"
I'm afraid quoting George Carlin isn't relevant to me. This attitude of "I didn't vote, so I'm not responsible for who gets elected" is complete BS.
Here's a clue, Carlin was a comedian. He said it because it's funny, not necessarily because it's true. You might want to investigate the concepts of irony and sarcasm in humor.
Call me "old fashioned, but they don't sound much like lovers to me!
I'm mystified how people cannot see that when you have reached the point in the relationship when you consider hiring an investigator or installing spyware it's long past time to move on.
Surely, you are joking, Mister Bond?
*slowly draws his Walther PPK from it's custom shoulder holster*
Some things I never joke about Mr. Gates...
*fade to black*
If the NSA broke in and stuck a small device into an empty PCI slot in your computer, would you notice?
Now here's a good reason to use an iPad or macbook.
Firefox/Chrome plug-in that emulates IE6?
Non-trivial, but it could be very profitable.
That's the kind of mistake that could be hunted down for ages with no help from the compiler/interpreter as there is no syntax error...
That's exactly my experience.
In real-world group development environments you often find yourself debugging code written by people several years before who are no longer on the project. If the example above had been written by somebody else then discovering the gap between intent and implementation is a nasty PITA.
I love python, but I also love { }
(I'm the prick on your team who insists in code reviews that every if/then/else try/catch for/next MUST ALWAYS BE BRACKETED no matter how small and trivial they are...)
Next question?
Does this chair make me look fat?
Mono is a C#/.NET runtime, and thus connected to Microsoft, making it even more of a liability than Java.
Which is sad, C# is pretty sharp...
Sounds like we need a new, and truly open, language and runtime for the 21st century.
You mean like Parrot, which already has implementations of several languages?
No. Parrot is neither a language nor a runtime, it is just a VM.
Java is all three, the language, the vm and the class library.
However, parrot might be an interesting vm target for a new language and runtime.
Try it out properly, you'll love it.
I've written thousands of lines of python, one of the programs I'm most proud of was pure OO python. But the tab stop shit just drives me barmy... much the same way that java iterator syntax makes me want to throw things. Doesn't stop me from using it, just a blemish on an otherwise good canvad.
Looks like I hurt someone's feelings... but 40% of moderators agree *sigh*
Python is definitely my script language of choice. Compiled Python with static typing would kick ass.
Except for the use of tab stops over { }... that's just plain stupid...
Python is definitely my script language of choice. Compiled Python with static typing would kick ass.
The one example I've seen is also in Harmony and probably Suns contribution to the GPL project.
I'm yet to see clear evidence of whether Oracle is just pulling a SCO because they really don't understand their own IP or if somebody screwed up badly with Harmony and Dalvik.
My opinion, for which I have zero evidence, is that Oracle is pulling a SCO and that the code they're bitching about is just one short step from being public domain.