I'm very disappointed. I saw guys with flashlights on their weapons. I mean if "I" can't get guns with flashlights taped to the barrel why the hell should they???
Hilf (wasn't this the nick name for Adolf?) is an open source evangelist, from IBM, working at Microsoft... erm... whats that Master Yoda? You sense great fear and anger in this one yes hmmmm? *cough*dark side*cough*
On a lighter note, I'm not sure that having self-aware COM objects is a good idea. Apart from this being a dubious application of strong AI technology, won't this make shutting down your computer equivalent to murder?
Consider how we treat animals, I doubt we'll bat an eyelash (no, I am not a vegetarian, and my shoes, jacket, and couches are leather).
What makes me wonder though is, would hacking on an AI program be considered cruelty?
The price gouging claim comes from the idea that anything that is not a tangible object should cost nothing, since the costs of reproducing what is basically an abstract representation of information is nearly zero.
My guess is you work in IT. By your logic, your work is worth nothing and you should be paid accordingly.
Seriously. I don't think you can even convince RMS with this faulty logic.
Oooooh, we've got this notion That we'd quite like to sail the ocean So we're building a big boat to leave here for good We're not keen on sinkin So we're all sittin here a-thinkin that we're going nowhere till we get some wood
Eiii-del-eii-del-eeeee Eiii-del-eii-del-eeeee We simply can't leave til we get some more wood...
"Sheep.... sheep have many uses"
This was a great game with great flaws. Not like Feeble.. er, Fable, a game that would itself be described as a flaw were it not too insipid and dull to deserve any other epithets.
> DK2 fixed a great number of the problems, and was really a much better game.
They still sell DK2 in fact, as part of a multi-game-pack. Despite the fact that the last patch to the game renders it inoperable on XP (even in the best of compatibility modes), and of course all shipping versions of that game have that patch. But EA, having already dismantled Bullfrog, won't fix it, not even by simply rolling it back to the previous patch.
Turning off the environmental sound (by far one of the best parts of the game) and all 3d accelleration will raise the average crash interval from 5 minutes to 15 minutes or so. What's left is hardly worth playing anymore.
Long as it's configurable, unlike gnome, I'm fine with it. I'll keep the buttons in the order I'm accustomed to.
When was the last time someone asked you a "no or yes" question? Dialogs should support natural idiom, including those of English, and not the whims of some developers, regardless of how many single-sourced HCI studies they can cite.
Now all I want is the ability to close a tab by middle-clicking it, same as I have set up in mozilla. I've searched around in vain for any place I can change the default behavior.
You were taught OO very poorly. In fact, I do tend to structure OO as input and output, where simple input is composed into higher level objects that are then stored and organized according to attributes on those units. Commands come in to select or transform a set of objects, and their output is another set of objects that are decomposed to raw output. No "actors" involved, really, and responsibilities are often a bit muddled (I have many methods that effectively script method calls on other objects, which causes lots of coupling). No one said it was a religion.
Admittedly, a lot of what I do could be done with a RDBMS instead of an OO system, but that actually requires more structure than I enjoy (mostly it's schema evolution that bothers me).
Engineering an OO app is hard -- any engineering is hard. OO hacking is easy. You want hard, try haskell.
He may have falsely impugned your credentials, but it hardly rises to libel. As another online acquaintance of mine said: "if there isn't some mentally deranged person yelling at you from the streets, you aren't really accomplishing anything in the world."
I smell a spelling troll. Makes the rest a bit suspect.
If you are serious, then well, sorry you couldn't hack it. Java I'd accept as an example of enforced OO run amok, but if you can't even handle python, then I suggest getting a nice non-technical job that won't stress you out too much. I don't even like python all that much, but I would hardly call it any more challenging than, say, Visual Basic.
No accounting for taste, I guess. The icons for d3a look promising, but have pretty terrible contrast. Edge is elegant in its own minimalist way. Exquisite lives up to its name, though it's fairly noisy, but why on earth does everyone have to create such "shiny" icons? By that I don't mean bling, I mean all the specular effects. I'm sick of my desktop looking like it has a million candlepower spotlight shining on it.
Many of the icons in the screenshot (such as the gnu for emacs) were application-supplied. You just can't have a theme that accounts for everything.
Queue up more boring screenshots on OSDir's clunky image browser. Possibly the most telling image is how they put GNU Emacs in the KDE Kicker and didn't configure any reasonable default colors for it matching the theme (those are the out of the box for gnu emacs). The rest are just bog standard desktop shots.
> TURNING THIS ALL INTO A HUGE TAXPAYER FUNDED ROCKSTAR COMMERCIAL.
A fat load of good this will do when they decide to make an example out of Rockstar. Remember 2 Live Crew? (incidentally, our own favorite person Jack Thompson got the ball rolling on them). These guys were arrested. Hauled out of their homes.
If you express something congress doesn't like, they will drag you off with the threat of violence on your person. Make no mistake.
> Don't try to dump Hillary Roddam-Roddam on us conservatives, she does not believe in anything we do.
I dunno, both of you are out to shelter us all from the idea that people have sex, under the color of legislation. I think Hillary's made for you right-wingers.
I don't see your devastating analysis anywhere off that link. Instead, I see a rhetorical speech (not a logical proof I might add) by one Bertrand Russel.
Speaking of Logic, there's a nifty fallacy called Argumentum ad Logicam. Look it up.
> China is buying Treasury stock in very large amounts and "owning" your government
They don't "own" jack. They want to buy, that's terrific. The problem is when they start to sell, or just don't buy as much any more. Right now they buy treasury stocks like crazy right now to peg the yuan to the dollar, but the hotter the yuan gets, the less affordable the policy is, and at some point they'll get negative returns.
So China wants to economically dominate just like the USA. Let's welcome the competition, shall we? I hardly think China's going to export its totalitarian regime abroad any more successfully than we exported democracy to the rest of the Americas.
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I'm very disappointed. I saw guys with flashlights on their weapons. I mean if "I" can't get guns with flashlights taped to the barrel why the hell should they???
Because Vin Diesel already did Pitch Black.
it is called the Nintendo DS after all
The original name, "TouchBoy" didn't make it past the focus groups.
Hilf (wasn't this the nick name for Adolf?) is an open source evangelist, from IBM, working at Microsoft... erm... whats that Master Yoda? You sense great fear and anger in this one yes hmmmm? *cough*dark side*cough*
Worst.
Comment.
Ever.
On a lighter note, I'm not sure that having self-aware COM objects is a good idea. Apart from this being a dubious application of strong AI technology, won't this make shutting down your computer equivalent to murder?
Consider how we treat animals, I doubt we'll bat an eyelash (no, I am not a vegetarian, and my shoes, jacket, and couches are leather).
What makes me wonder though is, would hacking on an AI program be considered cruelty?
You do realize that if there are many HCI studies, then they are, by definition, not "single-sourced?"
Not surprisingly, the studies that favored Apple's dialog order came from Apple.
The rest of your reply just underscores the pervasive arrogance that keeps me solidly in one "camp". Sad.
The price gouging claim comes from the idea that anything that is not a tangible object should cost nothing, since the costs of reproducing what is basically an abstract representation of information is nearly zero.
My guess is you work in IT. By your logic, your work is worth nothing and you should be paid accordingly.
Seriously. I don't think you can even convince RMS with this faulty logic.
Fo Shizzle, ma shugenah
peace, O.G. (Original Goyim)
sing along boys and girls:
...
.... sheep have many uses"
.. er, Fable, a game that would itself be described as a flaw were it not too insipid and dull to deserve any other epithets.
Oooooh, we've got this notion
That we'd quite like to sail the ocean
So we're building a big boat to leave here for good
We're not keen on sinkin
So we're all sittin here a-thinkin
that we're going nowhere till we get some wood
Eiii-del-eii-del-eeeee
Eiii-del-eii-del-eeeee
We simply can't leave til we get some more wood
"Sheep
This was a great game with great flaws. Not like Feeble
> DK2 fixed a great number of the problems, and was really a much better game.
They still sell DK2 in fact, as part of a multi-game-pack. Despite the fact that the last patch to the game renders it inoperable on XP (even in the best of compatibility modes), and of course all shipping versions of that game have that patch. But EA, having already dismantled Bullfrog, won't fix it, not even by simply rolling it back to the previous patch.
Turning off the environmental sound (by far one of the best parts of the game) and all 3d accelleration will raise the average crash interval from 5 minutes to 15 minutes or so. What's left is hardly worth playing anymore.
I loved that game until it was patched to death.
Long as it's configurable, unlike gnome, I'm fine with it. I'll keep the buttons in the order I'm accustomed to.
When was the last time someone asked you a "no or yes" question? Dialogs should support natural idiom, including those of English, and not the whims of some developers, regardless of how many single-sourced HCI studies they can cite.
> Miss a tag in XML, sorry, no rendering today.
My own XML parser has error reporting and recovery (if hardly anything else). Sorry to hear that yours is so broken. Try a different one.
Java dies on you if you miss a curly brace, yet people keep on using it.
Now all I want is the ability to close a tab by middle-clicking it, same as I have set up in mozilla. I've searched around in vain for any place I can change the default behavior.
You were taught OO very poorly. In fact, I do tend to structure OO as input and output, where simple input is composed into higher level objects that are then stored and organized according to attributes on those units. Commands come in to select or transform a set of objects, and their output is another set of objects that are decomposed to raw output. No "actors" involved, really, and responsibilities are often a bit muddled (I have many methods that effectively script method calls on other objects, which causes lots of coupling). No one said it was a religion.
Admittedly, a lot of what I do could be done with a RDBMS instead of an OO system, but that actually requires more structure than I enjoy (mostly it's schema evolution that bothers me).
Engineering an OO app is hard -- any engineering is hard. OO hacking is easy. You want hard, try haskell.
He may have falsely impugned your credentials, but it hardly rises to libel. As another online acquaintance of mine said: "if there isn't some mentally deranged person yelling at you from the streets, you aren't really accomplishing anything in the world."
Don't rise to the bait.
> Plus OO programming, is just tuff to swallow
I smell a spelling troll. Makes the rest a bit suspect.
If you are serious, then well, sorry you couldn't hack it. Java I'd accept as an example of enforced OO run amok, but if you can't even handle python, then I suggest getting a nice non-technical job that won't stress you out too much. I don't even like python all that much, but I would hardly call it any more challenging than, say, Visual Basic.
> We as a nation have been able to attract great minds with promises of "vast tracks of land", but that is about it.
sigh
No accounting for taste, I guess. The icons for d3a look promising, but have pretty terrible contrast. Edge is elegant in its own minimalist way. Exquisite lives up to its name, though it's fairly noisy, but why on earth does everyone have to create such "shiny" icons? By that I don't mean bling, I mean all the specular effects. I'm sick of my desktop looking like it has a million candlepower spotlight shining on it.
Many of the icons in the screenshot (such as the gnu for emacs) were application-supplied. You just can't have a theme that accounts for everything.
Queue up more boring screenshots on OSDir's clunky image browser. Possibly the most telling image is how they put GNU Emacs in the KDE Kicker and didn't configure any reasonable default colors for it matching the theme (those are the out of the box for gnu emacs). The rest are just bog standard desktop shots.
4. Argumentum ad Logicam is a nifty and oft used fallacy. Did you bring it up because of its use in "Why I Am Not a Christian?"
That's going to be awesomely funny when you go look up the term and find out what it actually means.
Losing the karma bonus for this obviously OFFTOPIC drivel. Mods, feel free to just sink the top of the thread, anyone not reparenting won't see this.
> TURNING THIS ALL INTO A HUGE TAXPAYER FUNDED ROCKSTAR COMMERCIAL.
A fat load of good this will do when they decide to make an example out of Rockstar. Remember 2 Live Crew? (incidentally, our own favorite person Jack Thompson got the ball rolling on them). These guys were arrested. Hauled out of their homes.
If you express something congress doesn't like, they will drag you off with the threat of violence on your person. Make no mistake.
> Don't try to dump Hillary Roddam-Roddam on us conservatives, she does not believe in anything we do.
I dunno, both of you are out to shelter us all from the idea that people have sex, under the color of legislation. I think Hillary's made for you right-wingers.
I don't see your devastating analysis anywhere off that link. Instead, I see a rhetorical speech (not a logical proof I might add) by one Bertrand Russel.
Speaking of Logic, there's a nifty fallacy called Argumentum ad Logicam. Look it up.
> China is buying Treasury stock in very large amounts and "owning" your government
They don't "own" jack. They want to buy, that's terrific. The problem is when they start to sell, or just don't buy as much any more. Right now they buy treasury stocks like crazy right now to peg the yuan to the dollar, but the hotter the yuan gets, the less affordable the policy is, and at some point they'll get negative returns.
So China wants to economically dominate just like the USA. Let's welcome the competition, shall we? I hardly think China's going to export its totalitarian regime abroad any more successfully than we exported democracy to the rest of the Americas.
> Because it's illogical: most other possessives have an apostrophe.
Like Your's, Hi's, Her's, Their's, and Our's?
I wish the language would evolve in the opposite direction and lose the apostrophe, everywhere.
Yeah, because they'll all run windows and windows sucks and stuff and OMG MICRO$SUX BILL GATES SUX0RZ LOL LOL!!!!!!!111
Grow up. Besides, the only hardware Microsoft controls has a green screen of death.