if something is useful enough, distro maintainers and other companies can provide "support". OSS is not one unified entity, and there are plenty of one or three person projects that are in all the major Linux distros and the project itself is providing zero support. some popular IRC and newsreading clients come to mind
you can talk about "penned by Republicans" but even more disturbing Democrats on boards with it without much fuss, even though there were dozens of possible alternatives. In fact, as actually implemented "the bailout" is being utilized somewhat differently than discussed at the time, since language of the law is broad. The Democratic party really doesn't have leadership qualities, they follow and have done a great job of being the Republicans willing flunkies.
there were multi-player games before the internet, of course. Starting in the 1970s, variations on dungeon exploration and star wars. google MUD1 and DUNGEN and Sceptre of Goth, also some star wars variants. some were ported from PDP to other platforms in the 80s, I played them on CDC Cyber running NO
the right size and mag ink is for expedited processing through the semi-automated systems, if someone writes a check on a sheet of toilet paper with all the things you wrote, well, maybe it goes through and maybe it doesn't, at bank's discretion.
working as IT guy for a dentist friend of mine a couple decades ago, we put through checks from patients (in a hurry, one supposes) that had only amount written in dollar area. no signature, no payee specified, no amount written second time in wording. no problem!
and you're saying that means someone has to be stuck with their station in life over here in the USA like they are in India? a person in USA can't be born in poverty and go to being president? can't be engineer? can't marry someone because of ethnic background or income or other social standing? hah, world of difference.
think about writing a DBMS, you can't take say Oracle data files and index files from one architecture to another, have to do full database export (platform neutral format, very texty) and re-import on another platform because of endian issues and data alignment issues. But you could write a DBMS in COBOL that had totally platform independent data files and indexes. (just as aside, COBOL also lets one use native types if one really wants to). Same issue can arise in any app with data files where the programmer uses representation-unaware defaults. Yes, there is a pile of libraries and techniques for C for dealing with such things, but complexity can and has led to bugs.
COBOL not suitable for writing OS, but you can nevertheless see the types of issues just looking at the pain operating system writers have going from various endian (high, low, mixed) platforms and from 32 to 64 bit. Those kind of things must be dealt with at low level like OS or device driver, but at higher level for business apps there are languages that eliminate troubles.
For a more modern alternative, at least in something like the JVM, everything is VERY well defined and predictable. Not that I'm a big fan of Java as it's still mostly warmed over c++ concepts, but it's going in the right direction for powerful structures.
yes, that fraud was done decades ago by a programmer, not to swiss account but to his account in same bank. he actually confessed because he didn't want to go to the trouble of slowly turning off the shavings of money.
no, your geeky precise brain has missed the real point, that we needlessly fuck with the time twice a year, wasting energy, time and money. Who gives a shit whether we're "coming off" or "coming onto" one standard to take up another? Doesn't even matter since both are arbitrary inventions of man.
nope, the way a computer is directed to add via COBOL, and set the value of another variable has nothing to do with your c compilers direction to do a float or int add and assign that to a var.
Specifying the (usually) internal decimal or packed decimal representation of a number, with or without sign, and the rules of how those digits are moved into another area of memory are neat tricks real business languages have that are very useful when dealing with money.
there are linux distros with user apps that fit in 50mb or less that can run on 80486 with 8mb ram. All ten million lines of source don't get used for every architecture or set of devices
Some biochemists were hanging out at the bar after a big pharmaceutical convention. One was telling a group at a table, "Did you know that in our laboratory we have switched from rats to banjo players for our drug trials?" Another at the table said, "That's interesting, what's the reason for the change?" "Well, there are three main benefits. First off, we found that banjo players are far more plentiful; second, the lab assistants don't get so attached to them; and third, there are some things even a rat won't do. However, there is a downside, sometimes it's difficult to extrapolate the results to human beings."
Guy walks into a bar with an octopus, tells the bartender, "hey, hire me, my talking octopus will bring in customers!". Bartender says, "big deal, talking animals, we've had talking horses, dogs, fish, birds...get out of here with your stupid octopus." Guy says, "but wait, my octopus can play any instrument like a virtuoso". Bar tender points to piano, says "let's see him do something on the keyboard." Octopus goes over to piano, starts playing with eight arms, sounds like four concert pianists jamming. Bar tender yells over to live band, to bring over a guitar. Octopus plays incredible music, sounds like three guitar masters playing. Bartender says, give him a trumpet, octopus plays jazz with blinding fury over six octave range. Scotsman over in the corner says "'old on just a minute, let's us see 'im do somethin' wi' me bagpipes". Scotsman hands over his pipes to the octopus. Octopus coils and flops and grabs all over the bagpipes, nothing coming out but occasional off key honks and burps and toots. Bartender says "haha, look at him flounder, he doesn't know how to play those". Octopus looks up from his struggles and says "play it?, as soon as I figure out how to get its pajamas off, I'm gonna fuck it!"
money created from debt is the problem, our particular type of fiat currency has that problem too. a pyramid scheme to create increased debt is required for the system to function
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if something is useful enough, distro maintainers and other companies can provide "support". OSS is not one unified entity, and there are plenty of one or three person projects that are in all the major Linux distros and the project itself is providing zero support. some popular IRC and newsreading clients come to mind
but put them one next to another, going this way then that, and now they're a *kinky* line
I thought we had those, and called them "mom"
let's just spin that a little, the 21st century will be the century of Linux on the desktop
you can talk about "penned by Republicans" but even more disturbing Democrats on boards with it without much fuss, even though there were dozens of possible alternatives. In fact, as actually implemented "the bailout" is being utilized somewhat differently than discussed at the time, since language of the law is broad. The Democratic party really doesn't have leadership qualities, they follow and have done a great job of being the Republicans willing flunkies.
it was spelled both ways depending on port (just as the symbolic staff can be spelled either way): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceptre_of_Goth
according to that wikipedia article there is C port
there were multi-player games before the internet, of course. Starting in the 1970s, variations on dungeon exploration and star wars. google MUD1 and DUNGEN and Sceptre of Goth, also some star wars variants. some were ported from PDP to other platforms in the 80s, I played them on CDC Cyber running NO
the right size and mag ink is for expedited processing through the semi-automated systems, if someone writes a check on a sheet of toilet paper with all the things you wrote, well, maybe it goes through and maybe it doesn't, at bank's discretion.
working as IT guy for a dentist friend of mine a couple decades ago, we put through checks from patients (in a hurry, one supposes) that had only amount written in dollar area. no signature, no payee specified, no amount written second time in wording. no problem!
puppet http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/
any piece of stationary with mag ink at the bottom with bank a.b.a., account number, check number, will be accepted as check
I would like to hear more about this Fucking Company. Will they have an IPO soon? are there job openings? is there a newsletter? is it illustrated?
no, a Wheatstone bridge that doesn't even graph is uni, not poly. Polygraph measures more physiological responses.
very good news for you, electricity by fusion is no longer something promised 30 years away, now it's fifty.
and you're saying that means someone has to be stuck with their station in life over here in the USA like they are in India? a person in USA can't be born in poverty and go to being president? can't be engineer? can't marry someone because of ethnic background or income or other social standing? hah, world of difference.
no, we read interviews of lower caste people and how they got treated like crap by higher castes. We most certainly are qualified to speak of it.
your system sucks, I'm very sorry we do business with your country.
think about writing a DBMS, you can't take say Oracle data files and index files from one architecture to another, have to do full database export (platform neutral format, very texty) and re-import on another platform because of endian issues and data alignment issues. But you could write a DBMS in COBOL that had totally platform independent data files and indexes. (just as aside, COBOL also lets one use native types if one really wants to). Same issue can arise in any app with data files where the programmer uses representation-unaware defaults. Yes, there is a pile of libraries and techniques for C for dealing with such things, but complexity can and has led to bugs.
COBOL not suitable for writing OS, but you can nevertheless see the types of issues just looking at the pain operating system writers have going from various endian (high, low, mixed) platforms and from 32 to 64 bit. Those kind of things must be dealt with at low level like OS or device driver, but at higher level for business apps there are languages that eliminate troubles.
For a more modern alternative, at least in something like the JVM, everything is VERY well defined and predictable. Not that I'm a big fan of Java as it's still mostly warmed over c++ concepts, but it's going in the right direction for powerful structures.
yes, that fraud was done decades ago by a programmer, not to swiss account but to his account in same bank. he actually confessed because he didn't want to go to the trouble of slowly turning off the shavings of money.
no, your geeky precise brain has missed the real point, that we needlessly fuck with the time twice a year, wasting energy, time and money. Who gives a shit whether we're "coming off" or "coming onto" one standard to take up another? Doesn't even matter since both are arbitrary inventions of man.
Many people defend Cobol by virtue of its record definition capabilities, We just call them structs and objects
nope, only seeing half the issue. the actual *layout in memory* of the record can be defined in COBOL. Tell me about
struct recordlayout
{
int c;
float d;
double e;
char *f;
unsigned int;
};
now tell me how that looks in memory, on a 32 bit Sparc chip, an 80486, an opteron, a Vax.
nope, the way a computer is directed to add via COBOL, and set the value of another variable has nothing to do with your c compilers direction to do a float or int add and assign that to a var.
Specifying the (usually) internal decimal or packed decimal representation of a number, with or without sign, and the rules of how those digits are moved into another area of memory are neat tricks real business languages have that are very useful when dealing with money.
there are linux distros with user apps that fit in 50mb or less that can run on 80486 with 8mb ram. All ten million lines of source don't get used for every architecture or set of devices
Some biochemists were hanging out at the bar after a big pharmaceutical convention. One was telling a group at a table, "Did you know that in our laboratory we have switched from rats to
banjo players for our drug trials?" Another at the table said, "That's interesting, what's the reason for the change?" "Well, there are three main benefits. First off, we found that banjo players are far more plentiful; second, the lab assistants don't get so attached to them; and third, there are some things even a rat won't do. However, there is a downside, sometimes it's difficult to extrapolate the results to human beings."
Guy walks into a bar with an octopus, tells the bartender, "hey, hire me, my talking octopus will bring in customers!". Bartender says, "big deal, talking animals, we've had talking horses, dogs, fish, birds...get out of here with your stupid octopus." Guy says, "but wait, my octopus can play any instrument like a virtuoso". Bar tender points to piano, says "let's see him do something on the keyboard." Octopus goes over to piano, starts playing with eight arms, sounds like four concert pianists jamming. Bar tender yells over to live band, to bring over a guitar. Octopus plays incredible music, sounds like three guitar masters playing. Bartender says, give him a trumpet, octopus plays jazz with blinding fury over six octave range. Scotsman over in the corner says "'old on just a minute, let's us see 'im do somethin' wi' me bagpipes". Scotsman hands over his pipes to the octopus. Octopus coils and flops and grabs all over the bagpipes, nothing coming out but occasional off key honks and burps and toots. Bartender says "haha, look at him flounder, he doesn't know how to play those". Octopus looks up from his struggles and says "play it?, as soon as I figure out how to get its pajamas off, I'm gonna fuck it!"
money created from debt is the problem, our particular type of fiat currency has that problem too. a pyramid scheme to create increased debt is required for the system to function
I propose a contest, put goatse man and one of those women in a thunderdome, the winner is the one that leaves with the loser stuffed inside them