The ole chinese man doesn't quite get English, repeating "two", so Decker shows with fingers.
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Damn it, people shouldn't view the text so fast. He was just explaining why the media can't quite grasp what's so great about free software.
I liked the article quite a bit. Critical, pointing out it's just software. It is considered good or bad by its quality as such.
As for myself, I've done some of that kicking of a bunch of Linux tires and haven't yet found too big lacks. That doesn't say the system as a whole wouldn't have its weaknesses - one still can't honestly tell ordinary dummies to use it.
As for the total cost of upkeep being the same as for NT, I do disagree, but that can be argued upon. Endlessly, so far.
Booring... The most curious point was "the Finnish joke", which was very clearly of the Swedish tradition of Finn mockery. I've never heard those ones in Finland, only in the Scandinavian peninsula. Much alike the American jokes on Polish people used to be.
In a quick look, I loved this one the most, even more than the growth rate assumption above it. Now this is a scientifically proof clause to use as the basis for an explanation of how the OSS movement will "implode".
Laugh of the week, if it only didn't have a load of less critical readers. I hate the power of clueless media.
Well, I haven't found postgreSQL utterly stabile - at least 6.3 or some used to explode (more than leak or flood) on untrivial queries, requiring a kill. Regretted not choosing mySQL, though I used to be pretty unhappy with the severe lacks in its SQL implementation. Proprietaries might make it better so far... Contrary beliefs anyone?
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Hiihaa, I'm beginning to feel myself old.. too bad. I used to write raw machine code on Commodore-64 (though one had to use basic to access the memory). It took me about 4 years to get to the level of structured programming:) Yes past days are golden, but I'd never want them back!
Why not simulate the society development in such a ship with a live-action role playing game? Approximate the development between and play a campaign of games simulating some subsociety every few generations. Would take some years and be fun.
Anyone willing to participate a writing team (we've not quite activated the project yet)?
Like there is DTD for SGML, could there be a (useably) uniform spefication for (scripting) languages, so that you could embed functionality into, say, XML data: parts of the data itself could act as ad-hoc semi-active script, defining widget response calculus or repeating data?
A meta-language should be able to present primitives such as block structure, test, repetition, call, data representation and inheritation markings, together with certain mutilations of these. With a few lines you should be able to redefine a new way to interpret parts of your data. With some more effort, you should be able to express more complicated compulinguistical developments.
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The ole chinese man doesn't quite get English, repeating "two", so Decker shows with fingers.
Damn it, people shouldn't view the text so fast. He was just explaining why the media can't quite grasp what's so great about free software.
:)
I liked the article quite a bit. Critical, pointing out it's just software. It is considered good or bad by its quality as such.
As for myself, I've done some of that kicking of a bunch of Linux tires and haven't yet found too big lacks. That doesn't say the system as a whole wouldn't have its weaknesses - one still can't honestly tell ordinary dummies to use it.
As for the total cost of upkeep being the same as for NT, I do disagree, but that can be argued upon. Endlessly, so far.
Well, quite a long "me too"
Booring... The most curious point was "the Finnish joke", which was very clearly of the Swedish tradition of Finn mockery.
I've never heard those ones in Finland, only in the Scandinavian peninsula.
Much alike the American jokes on Polish people used to be.
... Now the article seemed a mix of ignorance and FUD fight. Imply the last step.
In a quick look, I loved this one the most, even more than the growth rate assumption above it. Now this is a scientifically proof clause to use as the basis for an explanation of how the OSS movement will "implode".
Laugh of the week, if it only didn't have a load of less critical readers. I hate the power of clueless media.
Well, I haven't found postgreSQL utterly stabile - at least 6.3 or some used to explode (more than leak or flood) on untrivial queries, requiring a kill. Regretted not choosing mySQL, though I used to be pretty unhappy with the severe lacks in its SQL implementation. Proprietaries might make it better so far... Contrary beliefs anyone?
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Hiihaa, I'm beginning to feel myself old.. too bad. I used to write raw machine code on Commodore-64 (though one had to use basic to access the memory). It took me about 4 years to get to the level of structured programming :) Yes past days are golden, but I'd never want them back!
There must be quite a few of us around here?
Why not simulate the society development in such a ship with a live-action role playing game? Approximate the development between and play a campaign of games simulating some subsociety every few generations. Would take some years and be fun.
Anyone willing to participate a writing team (we've not quite activated the project yet)?
70% of Earth's mass is water, so it is mostly not either a gas giant or Mars-style solid rock planet.
Gas Giants do not count random rocks as planets anyway.
Great ideas you have on jvm functionalities
Like there is DTD for SGML, could there be a (useably) uniform spefication for (scripting) languages, so that you could embed functionality into, say, XML data: parts of the data itself could act as ad-hoc semi-active script, defining widget response calculus or repeating data?
A meta-language should be able to present primitives such as block structure, test, repetition, call, data representation and inheritation markings, together with certain mutilations of these. With a few lines you should be able to redefine a new way to interpret parts of your data. With some more effort, you should be able to express more complicated compulinguistical developments.