Exactly. COBOL is common, and it's business-oriented. Why waste your time using a language that's cryptic, and not focused on business? Add to that the fact that C is totally unportable (that's why we use Java, right? write-once, run anywhere)!
You mean business? Then get a business language!
(disclaimer: I've never even read a COBOL program)
What good is bitching that government fix your problems, when you have to just leave the house and go looking for a more secure operating system. Wait: you don't even have to leave your house...
Second: what the hell would LAWS do anyway? The internet is a technical beast, not a legal one...
(anyway, I don't want to bitch about the US in general, nice country it is)
*Developers* recently seem to prefer multithreading to more traditional multi-processes or event-dispatch. Developers use AJAX because it allows high response time as well. Of course you can just use a very fast server to do that, if you prefer to reload the whole page.
About the functionality: of course there's lots of similar functionality; that's what competition is all about. You *need* a nice interface to compete. But yes, that's not revolutionary and I never said that (unlike other posters).
AJAX might just be a performance hack, but that's what counts to most people, just like multithreading etc.
Compare the usability of Google Maps to, hmmm, for instance/. Most users will flock to AJAX websites.
I agree that accessibility mandates that you write a non-Javascript version of a website. Well, and JS is an ugly language, IMHO. But I think it shouldn't be too hard to combine both versions of an app into one.
But an unreadable driver isn't as good, as that means that other people (such as BSD users) are left standing in the rain, even though they also pay for their hardware, and should be able to use it the way *they* see fit.
Documentation, that actually *tells* you how to program the hardware right, is much more valuable. Also, Linux drivers don't exactly have a reputation for great stability and readability, which is all the more reason to allow the BSD people to write their own, cleanly documented drivers.
The trade secret issue appears like utter nonsense to me. Since when are Intel's chips sooo f***ing great that opening documentation for them would give any competitor valuable information they couldn't already extract by reverse-engineering? On the contrary, those competitors have their own chips, and are constantly improving them. I don't think they'd have much to gain from an Intel chip.
The same argument also applied to graphics cards. I doubt that ATi could steal valuable information for their graphics cards by looking at an NVidia doc-sheet. After all, they use totally different architectures in their cards, and the new chips they are working on have been in the planning for years, so that information on the competitor's previous-generation chip won't do any good anyway.
Some will say that such rights are needed in order to give artists and inventors the financial incentive to create. But most of the great innovators in history operated without benefit of copyright laws.
Roderick T. Long
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.
Bill Gates (1991)
'Who owns my polio vaccine? The people! Could you patent the sun?' Jonas Salk (1914-1995), who developed the first effective anti-polio vaccine
Software patents go one step further: They withhold all forms of expressions of a particular idea from you. This is why software patents are potentially so much more harmful to our culture than copyright: We all can find different ways of expression, but we all share the same fundamental ideas.
- Markus Brinkmann
"More patents in more industries and with greater breadth are not always the best ways to maximize consumer welfare." Federal Trade Commission of the USA
Die Gedanken sind frei. Keiner kann sie erraten. Sie fliegen vorbei wie nächtliche Schatten.
Kein Mensch kann sie wissen, kein Jäger erschießen. Es bleibet dabei: Die Gedanken sind frei.
(The thoughts are free. Nobody can guess them. They fly past you like nightly shadows.
Nobody can know them, no hunter can shoot them. It's gonna stay this way: the thoughts are free.)
To most people this is obvious, and the freedom of thought as the only freedom that can't be taken from you and can't be controlled is a recurring theme in literature as well (think 1984; even though Orwell coined the term "Though Police").
What's this with German sounding a lot scarier? I assume that you heard some Rammstein records and now you think that German is always spoken by weird macho-people. Of course at this point it's appropriate to sneak in some remark about Nazis etc.
No really. It's just another language. Maybe it's about time you actually visited Europe to get your own impression.
Oh, and thanks to the other (German) replier who gave a *real* translation.
Well, there might also be criminal dissidents, especially under a state where everything is illegal.
I think dissidents merely deviate from the decreed opinion you have to have, and are often right, because oppressive cultures (that force you to deviate) suck.
Terrorists are *never* right, since they're just criminals, not only under one point of view, but under all points of view. Nobody really accepts murder and destruction, at least if it happened to people they know.
It's not even paying for TV, or the commercials. It's that I can't get good TV in Germany, cause those bastards translate all the original language (and synced lips and sound) and puns away.
And most shows and movies don't run in Germany, only those they bother to translate. And even then they run several months after the US start, at the earliest.
Why can't I just watch TV online, or download movies and TV series for pay? What's the MPAA's f***ing problem??
Hey, even downloading recorded TV with commercials would be fine. Skipping commercials would be just as hard as doing that with a VHS or DVR...
Indeed. Creating Windows emulation is like giving people illegal windows copies: it only spreads the use of Windows further.
I have neither Windows, nor any emulation of it running, and I don't miss it a bit.
Patents suck, and if any software vendor gets stupid patents like the exception one in question, just stop buying their stuff! Who needs Bor(e)land anyway?
Yes, WebCore is designed for Mac OS, and as such needs different code than KHTML. That's unfortunate, but mostly because the two systems are different.
OTOH this means that WebCore changes are hard to port to KHTML, but OTOH porting WebCore to GNUstep is easier, I suppose, since most Mac APIs are more or less the same there.
But ML is much prettier than C dialects. Haskell is slow only because it's lazy (i.e. I'd love a strict Haskell). Lisp isn't that ugly, except for its funcall and #' syntax.
So overall I think ML and Lisp are pretty, too, while Obj-C isn't too pretty, because you have to write too much stuff the C way.
Well, in the end it's all a matter of personal taste I think.
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But everybody needs to get paid. If the artist can't live off his work, he has to waste his time and energy on a day job -- not good for art.
So while some coders choose to persue open source as a hobby, for most people it's get-paid-for-programming or find-another-job.
Exactly. COBOL is common, and it's business-oriented. Why waste your time using a language that's cryptic, and not focused on business? Add to that the fact that C is totally unportable (that's why we use Java, right? write-once, run anywhere)!
You mean business? Then get a business language!
(disclaimer: I've never even read a COBOL program)
Maybe the headline should mention this.
What good is bitching that government fix your problems, when you have to just leave the house and go looking for a more secure operating system. Wait: you don't even have to leave your house...
Second: what the hell would LAWS do anyway? The internet is a technical beast, not a legal one...
(anyway, I don't want to bitch about the US in general, nice country it is)
If you can make your own compiled kernel run (and you should!!), then what prevents you from deactivating that part, so you can run it on a PC?
*Developers* recently seem to prefer multithreading to more traditional multi-processes or event-dispatch. Developers use AJAX because it allows high response time as well. Of course you can just use a very fast server to do that, if you prefer to reload the whole page.
About the functionality: of course there's lots of similar functionality; that's what competition is all about. You *need* a nice interface to compete. But yes, that's not revolutionary and I never said that (unlike other posters).
People keep talking like Java has failed and is now dead and gone.
Nobody is talking about Java. Your post is so off-topic I can't understand how it got +5 Insightful.
AJAX might just be a performance hack, but that's what counts to most people, just like multithreading etc.
/. Most users will flock to AJAX websites.
Compare the usability of Google Maps to, hmmm, for instance
I agree that accessibility mandates that you write a non-Javascript version of a website. Well, and JS is an ugly language, IMHO. But I think it shouldn't be too hard to combine both versions of an app into one.
But an unreadable driver isn't as good, as that means that other people (such as BSD users) are left standing in the rain, even though they also pay for their hardware, and should be able to use it the way *they* see fit.
Documentation, that actually *tells* you how to program the hardware right, is much more valuable. Also, Linux drivers don't exactly have a reputation for great stability and readability, which is all the more reason to allow the BSD people to write their own, cleanly documented drivers.
The trade secret issue appears like utter nonsense to me. Since when are Intel's chips sooo f***ing great that opening documentation for them would give any competitor valuable information they couldn't already extract by reverse-engineering? On the contrary, those competitors have their own chips, and are constantly improving them. I don't think they'd have much to gain from an Intel chip.
The same argument also applied to graphics cards. I doubt that ATi could steal valuable information for their graphics cards by looking at an NVidia doc-sheet. After all, they use totally different architectures in their cards, and the new chips they are working on have been in the planning for years, so that information on the competitor's previous-generation chip won't do any good anyway.
"(Score:-1, Troll)"
Look, like you payed indeed.
Yeah, Systemagic was the coolest one.
;)
But "ding dong the lawyer's dead" doesn't sound too bad for a patent-hater like me
Some will say that such rights are needed in order to give artists and inventors the financial incentive to create. But most of the great innovators in history operated without benefit of copyright laws.
Roderick T. Long
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.
Bill Gates (1991)
'Who owns my polio vaccine? The people! Could you patent the sun?'
Jonas Salk (1914-1995), who developed the first effective anti-polio vaccine
Software patents go one step further: They withhold all forms of expressions of a particular idea from you. This is why software patents are potentially so much more harmful to our culture than copyright: We all can find different ways of expression, but we all share the same fundamental ideas.
- Markus Brinkmann
"More patents in more industries and with greater breadth are not always the best ways to maximize consumer welfare."
Federal Trade Commission of the USA
You should ask whoever created that "Linux PDA" headline. He sure can explain to you the relation between this new Palm and Linux...
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There's a nice German song:
Die Gedanken sind frei.
Keiner kann sie erraten.
Sie fliegen vorbei
wie nächtliche Schatten.
Kein Mensch kann sie wissen,
kein Jäger erschießen.
Es bleibet dabei:
Die Gedanken sind frei.
(The thoughts are free.
Nobody can guess them.
They fly past you
like nightly shadows.
Nobody can know them,
no hunter can shoot them.
It's gonna stay this way:
the thoughts are free.)
To most people this is obvious, and the freedom of thought as the only freedom that can't be taken from you and can't be controlled is a recurring theme in literature as well (think 1984; even though Orwell coined the term "Though Police").
Ridiculous what MS is trying to pull here...
What's this with German sounding a lot scarier? I assume that you heard some Rammstein records and now you think that German is always spoken by weird macho-people. Of course at this point it's appropriate to sneak in some remark about Nazis etc.
No really. It's just another language. Maybe it's about time you actually visited Europe to get your own impression.
Oh, and thanks to the other (German) replier who gave a *real* translation.
Well, there might also be criminal dissidents, especially under a state where everything is illegal.
I think dissidents merely deviate from the decreed opinion you have to have, and are often right, because oppressive cultures (that force you to deviate) suck.
Terrorists are *never* right, since they're just criminals, not only under one point of view, but under all points of view. Nobody really accepts murder and destruction, at least if it happened to people they know.
It's not even paying for TV, or the commercials. It's that I can't get good TV in Germany, cause those bastards translate all the original language (and synced lips and sound) and puns away.
And most shows and movies don't run in Germany, only those they bother to translate. And even then they run several months after the US start, at the earliest.
Why can't I just watch TV online, or download movies and TV series for pay? What's the MPAA's f***ing problem??
Hey, even downloading recorded TV with commercials would be fine. Skipping commercials would be just as hard as doing that with a VHS or DVR...
That's fine; Americans should either pay according to their laws or change their laws.
God, I love you! That's the best thing I've heard in a long time, especially the "change" part.
Indeed. Creating Windows emulation is like giving people illegal windows copies: it only spreads the use of Windows further.
I have neither Windows, nor any emulation of it running, and I don't miss it a bit.
Patents suck, and if any software vendor gets stupid patents like the exception one in question, just stop buying their stuff! Who needs Bor(e)land anyway?
Yes, WebCore is designed for Mac OS, and as such needs different code than KHTML. That's unfortunate, but mostly because the two systems are different.
OTOH this means that WebCore changes are hard to port to KHTML, but OTOH porting WebCore to GNUstep is easier, I suppose, since most Mac APIs are more or less the same there.
Find and listen to someone who has done what you want to do. Don't listen to the masses. Listen to someone's who's done it.
Hm, usually the point in a startup is doing what noone has done before...
It is Dell, the computer, I suppose.
but they can't force us to buy their products.
But ML is much prettier than C dialects. Haskell is slow only because it's lazy (i.e. I'd love a strict Haskell).
Lisp isn't that ugly, except for its funcall and #' syntax.
So overall I think ML and Lisp are pretty, too, while Obj-C isn't too pretty, because you have to write too much stuff the C way.
Well, in the end it's all a matter of personal taste I think.