I'd be much more impressed with this refutal if my Ubuntu install could actually manage to have Flash and Java play sound in even the same browsing session, to say nothing of at the same time.
He's not the only one who's tried that. I know several other people who've tried the same and have had the same experience.
Really, RC flying doesn't have to be hard any more. Those days are long gone. Go out and try it yourself if you really can't believe it. There are whole new classes of planes out there that didn't even exist ten years ago.
There's no need any more to push a big chunk of wood through the air at breakneck speed with a motor that gives everyone within half a mile an earache. You can fly in the park these days, and people will think it's cute.
I've handed the transmitter to a friend who never flew an RC plane before and he could fly the plane just fine. The next time, he started and landed himself. He made about a million newbie mistakes, and the plane just gracefully handled every single one of them.
And I've banged it into the ground at some pretty high speeds, with nothing to show for it but some scratches.
You really should actually try one of these out before making sweeping statements about them.
All that you say is true, but there is something not credible about the length of time that it has taken for them to get this done. It seems to have taken longer for them to do the linux port than it did for them to build the entire windows version.
How would you know? You don't know when work started on the Windows version. And the Linux and OS X versions have been in development for no more than half a year.
It takes time to develop software. It doesn't matter what resource you have, beyond a certain point, it still takes lots of time.
And they are working on both, you know. They're open-source. You can go look at them. You can go help out - isn't that what open source advocates tell you to do every time you complain about an open source app?
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Youtube is not going vorbis+theora, their HTML5 experiment uses h.264.
Wait, people who prefer to get money instead of pay money are loonies?
This particular branch of the discussion is about verbosity in general, not about speed.
Long half-lives mean low activity. The long-lived stuff isn't particularly dangerous.
They're also three or four times less efficient than CFLs, you know.
True, but entirely off topic.
The method syntax is exactly the verbosity I was referring to, and it does have the big advantage of making code self-documenting.
You kind of have to use it for a while to really get it, though.
Nothing except Wikipedia is Wikipedia. Please keep the "citation neededs" on Wikipedia, where they belong, and far away from casual conversation.
Verbose standard libraries can help immensely with keeping code self-documenting.
Nowhere near true. Objective-C is more verbose than C, yet still more expressive, and largely self-documenting to boot.
Sure, Sun may be doing something stupid, but why is the system even allowing them to break sound for other applications?
No, he's bitching that GNOME's HIG aren't consistent with Qt's.
I'd be much more impressed with this refutal if my Ubuntu install could actually manage to have Flash and Java play sound in even the same browsing session, to say nothing of at the same time.
He's not the only one who's tried that. I know several other people who've tried the same and have had the same experience.
Really, RC flying doesn't have to be hard any more. Those days are long gone. Go out and try it yourself if you really can't believe it. There are whole new classes of planes out there that didn't even exist ten years ago.
There's no need any more to push a big chunk of wood through the air at breakneck speed with a motor that gives everyone within half a mile an earache. You can fly in the park these days, and people will think it's cute.
I've handed the transmitter to a friend who never flew an RC plane before and he could fly the plane just fine. The next time, he started and landed himself. He made about a million newbie mistakes, and the plane just gracefully handled every single one of them.
And I've banged it into the ground at some pretty high speeds, with nothing to show for it but some scratches.
You really should actually try one of these out before making sweeping statements about them.
Can your electric foamy carry a GPS, camera and other electronics you'd need to make it autonomous.
Sure thing, not a problem. Carried all kinds of bulky equipment on it already.
You seem to be stuck back in the nineties when it comes to your understanding of what electric planes can do these days.
Or he could buy something like the Easy Star and learn to fly it in an evening or two.
It probably doesn't run well under Wine due to using some pretty advanced functionality to implement its sandbox.
And what's with the "as now"? There is a Linux port, it's just not done yet. You can run it if you want.
All that you say is true, but there is something not credible about the length of time that it has taken for them to get this done. It seems to have taken longer for them to do the linux port than it did for them to build the entire windows version.
How would you know? You don't know when work started on the Windows version. And the Linux and OS X versions have been in development for no more than half a year.
They specifically listed AdBlock as one of the things they wanted to support through their extension API, which is still in development.
Once again, development builds are right there for the downloading.
You know that it takes time to develop software, right? It doesn't just spring into existence by itself?
Development builds are right there for the downloading.
"By the masses"? You honestly think the masses use Adblock?
It takes time to develop software. It doesn't matter what resource you have, beyond a certain point, it still takes lots of time.
And they are working on both, you know. They're open-source. You can go look at them. You can go help out - isn't that what open source advocates tell you to do every time you complain about an open source app?