It's not another sign that Javascript is taking over the world, but rather a sign that gnome is making bad decisions.
I disagree. I have only ever done some light Javascript programming but it is close enough in syntax to C that it was easy to learn. The Gnome project has made some absolutely horrendous user interface decisions (I want control!) but otherwise Gnome has generally made good decisions... and having support for Javascript is one of them.
Could you imagine if the world worked like that? How awesome would that be? Unfortunately, their lobbying pockets are a bit deeper than yours or mine will ever be.
Weird. I read your idea and had this thought that we citizens should get together and "unionize" so we can have a stronger voice... and then I thought WTF? The government is SUPPOSED to be OUR "union".
I have nothing against RIM/Blackberry. I hope they do succeed. 70k apps is not necessarily impressive but hopefully there will be some actually useful apps amongst those. For myself, I have never appreciated any of RIM's products despite my daughter seeming to like them at one point... so I am unsure how much of a chance that they have. It all depends on if the management rearranging had a good effect.
Personally, I think it has slightly better odds than Windows Phone.
Sorry. As poor as I think their chances are, anything above zero is more than a "slightly" better chance. Windows 8 has zero chance of succeeding because people have an aversion to Microsoft software on phones. This may be due to extremely poor experiences in the past or due to experience with Microsoft on desktops and their overly greedy activation/licensing schemes.
I would not mind if RIM succeeded. I would mind if Microsoft did.
Is there a reason you and so many other others use goo.gl URL shorteners? The reason I ask is that there is no way for me to know what is at the other end of it and even if I could see what was at the other end of it, the mandatory filter that I sit behind blocks it anyways. It is not like electrons are in short supply or that clicking a 500 character link is any more tedious than clicking a 5 character link; although I supposed it could be argued that if you are moving your mouse to highlight a URL you have to move your mouse further... but then the counter-argument to that is that you have to go to goo.gl to set up the shortened URL which is more work anyways.
Now, what stops a company from taking your code and making massive changes to it and shipping that code for mad moneys?
Hm. All code is automatically copyrighted immediately upon creation. Registering it is only useful if you want treble damages. The only thing publishing code without ANY license at all will do is allow people to download it and use it free of charge. It does not allow nor imply redistribution rights.
What this boils down to is that this appears to be mental from the start as the law has already set the stage and the creator has to explicitly deny (create a license) the preexisting conditions to even get to the condition of no permission needed or granted.
As an aside, if the author does not care about permissions, then the author surely does not care about $MOST_HATED_COMPANY trying any shenanigans to monetize the creation.... or am I missing something too?
WTF? Why would I care if there are pictures circulating around with me naked in them? You want to laugh? Fine. You want to be jealous? Fine. I am free and you are not. Enjoy your chains.
I take it you prefer to have your population dominated by uneducated burger flippers instead of college graduates?
What does it matter when everything pays burger flipper wages? I guess it may be better to have well educated burger flippers... but really now. Employment in the USA sucks HARD right now.
Utter hogwash. Seriously. WoW64 compatibility? My Linux install has that too and is still nowhere near as large.
As far as "Windows Servicing" goes, we are talking about a FRESH INSTALL. We are not talking about how large the install grows after applying updates. D'oh!
It is sad to see that your comment is +5 informative when it is anything but. Even the densest moron can see that your argument holds absolutely no weight. (Although I am not insulting you for proposing it, I have proposed some silly arguments before too and needed the acid of reality to wash away the weak parts).
While this phenomenon is to be expected, it happened much faster than I expected. And I consider it a good thing. We need people to move people out of low-level manufacturing.
Okay. I will not argue about whether or not people "should" be doing menial labor... but i would like to ask you and other folks who are fixated on this idea: Have you created any new skilled jobs that all of these former wage slaves can perform? If not, what will those wage slaves do to feed themselves? They are not permitted to leave society and just grow or hunt their own food as that requires land and land is taxed and tax MUST be paid in a currency created by society. So... what? I think you will have a VERY hard time convincing billions of unnecessary people to just politely lay down and die now that they are no longer needed.
The code was "written" by a contractor, and MIcrosoft immediately took action. I think turning that into "Microsoft has already stolen code" is unfair.
I agree. The hyperbole, truth stretching, and outright lying needs to stop. This was NOT a situation to nail Microsoft to the wall even if they deserve it in general.
So I don't get what is so bad with Microsoft contributing to open source.
Nobody was claiming it was bad. I hear people saying that it is not a flag that Microsoft can wave around yelling about how Open source friendly they are.:)
Now in what way you explain this (new physical laws, new elementary particles) is still an open question. But it's there and needs to be addressed. Dark matter is just the name of the problem.
Hm. Doesn't calling it Dark Matter strongly imply that it is NOT a new physical law but rather some sort of... substance or particle? Surely you can see how the non-physicist who is curious could be mislead into a narrower interpretation?
I thought that in America, blood and guns were just fine for consumption by children and that only sexual stuff was Adults Only... so I had images of Ranger running around firing dildos at enemies that looked like a vagina... which oddly, would fit into a misogynistic world view.
Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store For Open Source Developers?
Even if they do have the "best" "app store" for Open Source, all it really says is that the other app stores are terrible... and somehow or another, I strongly suspect that Google Play is a far more Open Source friendly app store than anything Microsoft deigns to allow Open Source in/on.
In other words, the question is wrong on so many levels that all it deserves is a LOL. I mean really, it seems to even presuppose that an "app store" is even a viable model for distributing software.
How much did Microsoft have to pay to get that headline even posted? ROFL. Seriously? Just wow. No shame at all. Microsoft? Open Source? Just kill me now. ( someone should take all the elements of this "should have taken my medication first" post and get an instant +5 insightful.)
Seeing what's left of the 'Amazon of the southern hemisphere' as they call it in Borneo, was very sad.
If you would like to see an extreme representation of different forestry practices, zoom in on Haiti and Dominican Republic. No, that is not a "taken at different times" picture artifact. One half of the island is indeed utterly deforested. Just wow. Haitians should be ashamed.
And there was no apology either, the reply was "We regret that the product has caused SOMEthe^H^H^H members of the Turkish cultural community to come to a wrong interpretation. "
Never thought I would be one of those guys... but, FTFY
But you can go ahead and list off all those Muslim turban wearing hero movies that Hollywood puts out every year. That'll show me. Hell, name one Hollywood male lead actor who's Muslim.
Just for fun, here are two that are VERY recognizable:
Omar Sharif and Dave Chappelle
Not that I am trying to invalidate your overall point though. As I said, this was just for fun. It sounded like a good challenge.:)
The root problem is that Ubuntu is more interested in random, useless crap like Unity and ALSA than they are in just fixing bugs and making something that works.
Maybe we are talking about a different ALSA but ALSA has been the only reliable sound system on Linux for me for close to a decade. All of that other crap that comes and goes is useless, not ALSA. ALSA is good, useful, and reliable. A HUGE thank you to the developers... which reminds me, why is there anything other than ALSA even out there? What does crap like PulseAudio solve that ALSA did not solve a decade ago?
The DOJ reaction? Slap a 50 years sentence on him.
See? It is shit like this that is causing so much craziness in the world. He was NOT facing 50 fucking years. Not even close. It was more like 30 fucking years. Still absurd in the extreme but when you nearly double that number for "effect", it devalues everything that was going on when that number is repeated and the lie is revealed.
Seriously, just cut out the insane hyperbole. I am losing my mind from seeing everyone running around like the sky is falling and overly exaggerating everything.... and yes, the sky DID fall for someone, but seriously. Just. Stop.
The $64,000 question is how much music this group of folks would be purchasing if file-sharing were somehow no longer an option.
I think I can answer this question in an authoritative manner: None
I really like several genres of music. Wild ass number: 90% of all music is crap. Without file sharing (tape recording), I would have never bought any music at all. As it is, since I do not do file sharing any more, I have no idea what is good or not and no way to find out. If anyone thinks that I am going to pay $20 a cd to find good music ($200 via that wild ass number to find one good cd), they are insane. I just do without nowadays.
In other words: I am sure there is good music out there that I would love to buy, I just have no way of finding it. That means zero dollars spent and zero artists enriched... erm, not artists, middlemen enriched.
Julian Assange has information to expose these guys; but guess what happened to Julian Assange?
He died? No, he is alive, but not well. He does not have any information about what you claim. Certainly none of the stuff that Manning gave him had that type of information in it. Conspiracy theories are just that: Conspiracy theories.
You may be right about causes and effects but neither you nor Julian Assange know that for sure. Honestly though, it would take more than oil price manipulation to bring down a "super power". Do you have real numbers for how much of the Soviet economy depended on oil rather than manufacturing, farming, or mining?
Most fonts appear to have smoother edges and more consistent curves when rendered as black-text-on-white background
That is because of sub-pixel font hinting. Black edges can be smoothed with variations of red, green, and blue. White edges, not so much. You might think black on white, white on black, what is the difference? I would guess it is mental. Black looks okay as smudged letters on white background because the meaning is in the black.
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It's not another sign that Javascript is taking over the world, but rather a sign that gnome is making bad decisions.
I disagree. I have only ever done some light Javascript programming but it is close enough in syntax to C that it was easy to learn. The Gnome project has made some absolutely horrendous user interface decisions (I want control!) but otherwise Gnome has generally made good decisions... and having support for Javascript is one of them.
Could you imagine if the world worked like that? How awesome would that be? Unfortunately, their lobbying pockets are a bit deeper than yours or mine will ever be.
Weird. I read your idea and had this thought that we citizens should get together and "unionize" so we can have a stronger voice... and then I thought WTF? The government is SUPPOSED to be OUR "union".
My brain hurts. :(
So it has a fighting chance.
I have nothing against RIM/Blackberry. I hope they do succeed. 70k apps is not necessarily impressive but hopefully there will be some actually useful apps amongst those. For myself, I have never appreciated any of RIM's products despite my daughter seeming to like them at one point... so I am unsure how much of a chance that they have. It all depends on if the management rearranging had a good effect.
Personally, I think it has slightly better odds than Windows Phone.
Sorry. As poor as I think their chances are, anything above zero is more than a "slightly" better chance. Windows 8 has zero chance of succeeding because people have an aversion to Microsoft software on phones. This may be due to extremely poor experiences in the past or due to experience with Microsoft on desktops and their overly greedy activation/licensing schemes.
I would not mind if RIM succeeded. I would mind if Microsoft did.
Is there a reason you and so many other others use goo.gl URL shorteners? The reason I ask is that there is no way for me to know what is at the other end of it and even if I could see what was at the other end of it, the mandatory filter that I sit behind blocks it anyways. It is not like electrons are in short supply or that clicking a 500 character link is any more tedious than clicking a 5 character link; although I supposed it could be argued that if you are moving your mouse to highlight a URL you have to move your mouse further... but then the counter-argument to that is that you have to go to goo.gl to set up the shortened URL which is more work anyways.
Thanks for nothing. :(
Am I missing something?
Yes.
Now, what stops a company from taking your code and making massive changes to it and shipping that code for mad moneys?
Hm. All code is automatically copyrighted immediately upon creation. Registering it is only useful if you want treble damages. The only thing publishing code without ANY license at all will do is allow people to download it and use it free of charge. It does not allow nor imply redistribution rights.
What this boils down to is that this appears to be mental from the start as the law has already set the stage and the creator has to explicitly deny (create a license) the preexisting conditions to even get to the condition of no permission needed or granted.
As an aside, if the author does not care about permissions, then the author surely does not care about $MOST_HATED_COMPANY trying any shenanigans to monetize the creation. ... or am I missing something too?
WTF? Why would I care if there are pictures circulating around with me naked in them? You want to laugh? Fine. You want to be jealous? Fine. I am free and you are not. Enjoy your chains.
I take it you prefer to have your population dominated by uneducated burger flippers instead of college graduates?
What does it matter when everything pays burger flipper wages? I guess it may be better to have well educated burger flippers... but really now. Employment in the USA sucks HARD right now.
Utter hogwash. Seriously. WoW64 compatibility? My Linux install has that too and is still nowhere near as large.
As far as "Windows Servicing" goes, we are talking about a FRESH INSTALL. We are not talking about how large the install grows after applying updates. D'oh!
It is sad to see that your comment is +5 informative when it is anything but. Even the densest moron can see that your argument holds absolutely no weight. (Although I am not insulting you for proposing it, I have proposed some silly arguments before too and needed the acid of reality to wash away the weak parts).
While this phenomenon is to be expected, it happened much faster than I expected. And I consider it a good thing. We need people to move people out of low-level manufacturing.
Okay. I will not argue about whether or not people "should" be doing menial labor... but i would like to ask you and other folks who are fixated on this idea: Have you created any new skilled jobs that all of these former wage slaves can perform? If not, what will those wage slaves do to feed themselves? They are not permitted to leave society and just grow or hunt their own food as that requires land and land is taxed and tax MUST be paid in a currency created by society. So ... what? I think you will have a VERY hard time convincing billions of unnecessary people to just politely lay down and die now that they are no longer needed.
The code was "written" by a contractor, and MIcrosoft immediately took action. I think turning that into "Microsoft has already stolen code" is unfair.
I agree. The hyperbole, truth stretching, and outright lying needs to stop. This was NOT a situation to nail Microsoft to the wall even if they deserve it in general.
So I don't get what is so bad with Microsoft contributing to open source.
Nobody was claiming it was bad. I hear people saying that it is not a flag that Microsoft can wave around yelling about how Open source friendly they are. :)
Now in what way you explain this (new physical laws, new elementary particles) is still an open question. But it's there and needs to be addressed. Dark matter is just the name of the problem.
Hm. Doesn't calling it Dark Matter strongly imply that it is NOT a new physical law but rather some sort of... substance or particle? Surely you can see how the non-physicist who is curious could be mislead into a narrower interpretation?
I thought that in America, blood and guns were just fine for consumption by children and that only sexual stuff was Adults Only... so I had images of Ranger running around firing dildos at enemies that looked like a vagina... which oddly, would fit into a misogynistic world view.
I was actually only going to post a LOL...
Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store For Open Source Developers?
Even if they do have the "best" "app store" for Open Source, all it really says is that the other app stores are terrible... and somehow or another, I strongly suspect that Google Play is a far more Open Source friendly app store than anything Microsoft deigns to allow Open Source in/on.
In other words, the question is wrong on so many levels that all it deserves is a LOL. I mean really, it seems to even presuppose that an "app store" is even a viable model for distributing software.
How much did Microsoft have to pay to get that headline even posted? ROFL. Seriously? Just wow. No shame at all. Microsoft? Open Source? Just kill me now. ( someone should take all the elements of this "should have taken my medication first" post and get an instant +5 insightful.)
Seeing what's left of the 'Amazon of the southern hemisphere' as they call it in Borneo, was very sad.
If you would like to see an extreme representation of different forestry practices, zoom in on Haiti and Dominican Republic. No, that is not a "taken at different times" picture artifact. One half of the island is indeed utterly deforested. Just wow. Haitians should be ashamed.
And there was no apology either, the reply was "We regret that the product has caused SOMEthe^H^H^H members of the Turkish cultural community to come to a wrong interpretation. "
Never thought I would be one of those guys ... but, FTFY
But you can go ahead and list off all those Muslim turban wearing hero movies that Hollywood puts out every year. That'll show me. Hell, name one Hollywood male lead actor who's Muslim.
Just for fun, here are two that are VERY recognizable:
Omar Sharif
and
Dave Chappelle
Not that I am trying to invalidate your overall point though. As I said, this was just for fun. It sounded like a good challenge. :)
The root problem is that Ubuntu is more interested in random, useless crap like Unity and ALSA than they are in just fixing bugs and making something that works.
Maybe we are talking about a different ALSA but ALSA has been the only reliable sound system on Linux for me for close to a decade. All of that other crap that comes and goes is useless, not ALSA. ALSA is good, useful, and reliable. A HUGE thank you to the developers... which reminds me, why is there anything other than ALSA even out there? What does crap like PulseAudio solve that ALSA did not solve a decade ago?
Because *everyone* loves a good reality show or celebrity meltdown. We all love to live vicariously, but different people chose different targets.
No. Not everyone. Have a good day. :)
The DOJ reaction? Slap a 50 years sentence on him.
See? It is shit like this that is causing so much craziness in the world. He was NOT facing 50 fucking years. Not even close. It was more like 30 fucking years. Still absurd in the extreme but when you nearly double that number for "effect", it devalues everything that was going on when that number is repeated and the lie is revealed.
Seriously, just cut out the insane hyperbole. I am losing my mind from seeing everyone running around like the sky is falling and overly exaggerating everything. ... and yes, the sky DID fall for someone, but seriously. Just. Stop.
The $64,000 question is how much music this group of folks would be purchasing if file-sharing were somehow no longer an option.
I think I can answer this question in an authoritative manner: None
I really like several genres of music. Wild ass number: 90% of all music is crap. Without file sharing (tape recording), I would have never bought any music at all. As it is, since I do not do file sharing any more, I have no idea what is good or not and no way to find out. If anyone thinks that I am going to pay $20 a cd to find good music ($200 via that wild ass number to find one good cd), they are insane. I just do without nowadays.
In other words: I am sure there is good music out there that I would love to buy, I just have no way of finding it. That means zero dollars spent and zero artists enriched... erm, not artists, middlemen enriched.
You are modded funny but I am not laughing. It is easy to believe that could be what is happening even though the chance it is true is miniscule.
Julian Assange has information to expose these guys; but guess what happened to Julian Assange?
He died? No, he is alive, but not well. He does not have any information about what you claim. Certainly none of the stuff that Manning gave him had that type of information in it. Conspiracy theories are just that: Conspiracy theories.
You may be right about causes and effects but neither you nor Julian Assange know that for sure. Honestly though, it would take more than oil price manipulation to bring down a "super power". Do you have real numbers for how much of the Soviet economy depended on oil rather than manufacturing, farming, or mining?
Most fonts appear to have smoother edges and more consistent curves when rendered as black-text-on-white background
That is because of sub-pixel font hinting. Black edges can be smoothed with variations of red, green, and blue. White edges, not so much. You might think black on white, white on black, what is the difference? I would guess it is mental. Black looks okay as smudged letters on white background because the meaning is in the black.
Samsung LCD screens (at least the ones I can see (monitor and phone)) appear to have their polarization at a 45 degree angle.