Signs that your project to start an online technical community is off on the wrong foot:
1) Ask an already established technical community "how to begin" 2) Stating a goal of "generating buy-in from customers" in the same sentence that admits "features that are widely available in other [free] places"
So pipe down already and focus on preventing it in your own backyard.
No, I will not pipe down.
The Utah is in the U.S., and the U.S. is my backyard. If the U.S. wants to promote the principles of freedom around the world (whether it should or not is another debate) it must at least be an example of such freedom itself first.
So everytime some backwards hillbillies come along and try limiting that freedom with their warped version of morality, I will grab a fucking megaphone and pipe up.
Want simpler blogging? You have to go no further than./
Just post a typical blog-style long rant on any thread. Sure it might get modded down as irrelevant or flamebait, but your blog's "home page" would be your user history page so it will always be easily reachable.
Plus, the peer-review scoring aspect would help others decide if they should waste time reading your stuff or not. Plenty of times, while searching on Google, I come across blogs that I wished were modded down to "useless crap" so they wouldn't clutter my search results.
The people have already spoken regarding this matter, and it shows in today's immense popularity of file swappers and format converters.
We want free music that can run on all devices (PC, portable players, cell phones, etc.)
We're sick of getting gouged by $20(or more) CDs with little, if any, worthy content. Does anyone remember how we were told CDs would go down in price after they became more popular than tapes? Well, that point arrived 10+ years ago! So until I see musicians starving on the streets, I'm not giving any more money to a business full of crooks.
I have C code both in production and development that's over 10 years old at this point
As I programmer myself, I realize you're talking about code that's pretty self-contained and algorithmic in nature.
Other coding projects, though, need to interface with hardware and other commercial software (like databases) all of which evolve over time... and if you want to take advantage of any new advancements they might provide then your code will have to evolve as well. Sometimes you don't even have a choice (a database company might drop support entirely for an old package) so updating code is part of the job.
Take graphics, for example... programmable shaders were practically unheard of 10 years ago, but they dramatically speed up some type of graphics applications. I've recently "dusted" some great opengl code I wrote in college. It still works, but I upgraded it to use some new 2.0 features and it's much faster now
"Allah is no longer being used abusively on our sites"
When will companies/politicians/anyone ever learn? All Yahoo has done now, by banning and then unbanning, is bring way more attention to the issue than it ever deserved. I never use Yahoo, but now I want to test this out.
Btw, if anyone would like to further discuss this issue with me in private, I can reached at AllahSucksBalls@yahoo.com
For a similar reason that medical care is so expensive and poor in quality in Canada... monopolies with little or no competition to drive market prices down and/or service quality up.
But most companies will stick with the "official" JBoss, plus the Oracle name will attract Oracle fans. As long as it stays free, any new users will opt for the more popular "official" JBoss... turning the well-meaning JHonco into JUnemployeed.
If a language is not ISO C++, it is not C++ and should not have C++ as part of the name.
What a load of crap.
C++ was well established on all major platform long before ISO standardized it. I know I've written my share of #ifdef/#define's to make code more portable between IRIX and othe *nix variants in my 15 plus years of C++ coding.
If you want to write a (mostly)cross-platform C++ program then use ISO C++. But if you want to reuse your C++ code and integrate it with newer.NET technologies, then C++/CLI is perfect. Any C++ coder worth anything will know that the term "C++" by itself does not fully describe a C++ project's language.
I'd be interested in stats on what OS and web services these sites were running.
Because of the relative ease they seemed to be cracked into, I'm assuming they were Windows boxes with IIS... but I figured that part of the world was heavy on Linux... so I'm confused...
Btw, Mohamed would certainly be against this kind of vandalism.
Also the name sucks. At best its confusing, at worst its offensive.
How's it offensive?
I was born with a left club foot. Fortunately, it was braced and reset before I can remember. Even though I've always walked with a slight (almost unoticeable) limp, I've never considered myself inferior in any way. The word gimp has never crossed my mind as being offensive. What I find offensive though, is when people try to tell me that I should be offended by. Gimp (in one of its definitions) is just a descriptive word for someone with a limp, so I'm a gimp, big fricking deal...
No, pressing Ctrl+E is not difficult... but intuitavely discovering that, given GIMP's interface, is.
I'm no graphics artist, but I've been using GIMP for years on my photos... for a time it was the best free graphics program you could get for Windows... or was, until I discovered another great open-source program, Paint.NET. For my needs the difference is like night and day. Interfaces DO matter, and Paint.NET's is just more intuitive (proof of that is that I haven't felt the need yet to read any of their documentation... if they even have any!).
Interesting to see that Bill Gates hasn't changed much in 30 years! He still hates casual software piracy; the only difference is now he has much more influence...
Difference to whom?
Him? No, he believes in software ownership, and always has.
You? Probably yes, because pirating software nowadays can have more negative consequences than it use too... especially because software/technology producers have more influence today.
Personally, I find supporting open-source software much more rewarding than downloading a pirated copy of whatever. For starters, there's a lot of excellent OSS out there nowadays and participating in it, even if only as a user, helps it mature further. Plus, I believe that if someone wants you to pay for something they've created (or bought the rights too) then you must respect their wishes.
IMO, pirated software is for chumps. If you want a particular piece of retail software, then pay for it, otherwise grow some balls and support OSS... but please don't support pirating software and OSS too, it does neither camps of opinion any good.
You are doing business in China, by buying their goods, but you are not evil. Why are you applying a double standard to Google?
By buying Chinese goods, I'm primarily supporting the economic livelyhood of the Chinese people. Only on some small indirect level can you say I'm aiding their opressive government.
Look at the U.S.'s embargo of Cuban goods, all that's done is impoverish the people. The communist Cuban government is still as strong as ever.
Google, on the other hand, is directly implementing PRC's censorship policy NOT FOR ANY BENIFIT OF THE PEOPLE but so that they can do business in China.
This story has been spinned in so many directions that I'm getting dizzy.
But, whatever colored glasses you choose to wear, a few facts remain undisputable...
1) Chinese government actively censors certain information from its people 2) Google wants to do business in China 3) At China's demand, Google censors certain information from it's google.cn search replies 4) Once, on Google's FAQ page, a few statements existed regarding the company's belief in a democratic and uncensored distribution of information... those statements have been removed recently.
Whether someone is wrong or right in all this depends (partly) on how you rate the importance/goodness of some of these facts in relation to each other.
Google hand over search logs which would seriously comprimise the privacy, and perhaps the security, of a large number of citizens.
wait, why is Google storing compromising information about me and my search habits in the first place?!
This company sounds more and more evil each day... I wouldn't be surprised if they started selectively filtering out content in order to control the informed opinions of its users.
For starters, China isn't a communist state. It hasn't been in over 30 years. It's a Capitalist Dictatorship (aka Facism).
According to Communist doctorine... the communist state is the last stage of a progressive application of varying facist governings. It's the final state that the people are working to achieve, and it's a state where everyone pitches in equally enough so that a government structure is no longer necessary. So, there has technically never been a "real communist state" in history, just varying states attempting to approach it. In common language, though, refering to a "communist state" usually means a state in one of the stages working towards communism so technically he was right to say "communist state".
Giggle. Right on, brother. We only approve of America's oppressive style of government!
Try saying something like that in China about the Chinese government... then let us know how much giggling you do when you're thrown in jail for upwards to a decade (as its commonly the case).
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Signs that your project to start an online technical community is off on the wrong foot:
1) Ask an already established technical community "how to begin"
2) Stating a goal of "generating buy-in from customers" in the same sentence that admits "features that are widely available in other [free] places"
So pipe down already and focus on preventing it in your own backyard.
No, I will not pipe down.
The Utah is in the U.S., and the U.S. is my backyard. If the U.S. wants to promote the principles of freedom around the world (whether it should or not is another debate) it must at least be an example of such freedom itself first.
So everytime some backwards hillbillies come along and try limiting that freedom with their warped version of morality, I will grab a fucking megaphone and pipe up.
iWeb matches that sort of simplicity.
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Want simpler blogging? You have to go no further than
Just post a typical blog-style long rant on any thread. Sure it might get modded down as irrelevant or flamebait, but your blog's "home page" would be your user history page so it will always be easily reachable.
Plus, the peer-review scoring aspect would help others decide if they should waste time reading your stuff or not. Plenty of times, while searching on Google, I come across blogs that I wished were modded down to "useless crap" so they wouldn't clutter my search results.
The people have already spoken regarding this matter, and it shows in today's immense popularity of file swappers and format converters.
We want free music that can run on all devices (PC, portable players, cell phones, etc.)
We're sick of getting gouged by $20(or more) CDs with little, if any, worthy content. Does anyone remember how we were told CDs would go down in price after they became more popular than tapes? Well, that point arrived 10+ years ago! So until I see musicians starving on the streets, I'm not giving any more money to a business full of crooks.
I have C code both in production and development that's over 10 years old at this point
As I programmer myself, I realize you're talking about code that's pretty self-contained and algorithmic in nature.
Other coding projects, though, need to interface with hardware and other commercial software (like databases) all of which evolve over time... and if you want to take advantage of any new advancements they might provide then your code will have to evolve as well. Sometimes you don't even have a choice (a database company might drop support entirely for an old package) so updating code is part of the job.
Take graphics, for example... programmable shaders were practically unheard of 10 years ago, but they dramatically speed up some type of graphics applications. I've recently "dusted" some great opengl code I wrote in college. It still works, but I upgraded it to use some new 2.0 features and it's much faster now
"Allah is no longer being used abusively on our sites"
When will companies/politicians/anyone ever learn? All Yahoo has done now, by banning and then unbanning, is bring way more attention to the issue than it ever deserved. I never use Yahoo, but now I want to test this out.
Btw, if anyone would like to further discuss this issue with me in private, I can reached at AllahSucksBalls@yahoo.com
Perhaps a better study would talk about volume or usage -- or longevity.
Why would a market share report, whose audience is investors, want to report on that?
Sure, Unix boxes last longer... plenty of studies have established that... but these people are tracking sales figures.
For those of you slightly lacking in geography, UAE stands for the United Arab Emirates
Educating others by way of Wikipedia link is the definition of laziness.
A far more informative (and better researched) link is this.
Why is broadband so expensive in the U.S.?
For a similar reason that medical care is so expensive and poor in quality in Canada... monopolies with little or no competition to drive market prices down and/or service quality up.
Yeah, let's all take advice on morality from hookers...
I'd be more suspicious of people who base their morality on hocus-pocus religious mythology.
There's nothing immoral about a consentual agreement between adults.
if this was the hottest January on record that doesn't mean the hottest January ever.
Given that Earth started out as a firey ball of lava, I'd say you're right.
Nothing at all.
But most companies will stick with the "official" JBoss, plus the Oracle name will attract Oracle fans. As long as it stays free, any new users will opt for the more popular "official" JBoss... turning the well-meaning JHonco into JUnemployeed.
How will this affect Opengl or is it completely independent of SGI now?
There's a reason why it's called OpenGL.
If a language is not ISO C++, it is not C++ and should not have C++ as part of the name.
.NET technologies, then C++/CLI is perfect. Any C++ coder worth anything will know that the term "C++" by itself does not fully describe a C++ project's language.
What a load of crap.
C++ was well established on all major platform long before ISO standardized it. I know I've written my share of #ifdef/#define's to make code more portable between IRIX and othe *nix variants in my 15 plus years of C++ coding.
If you want to write a (mostly)cross-platform C++ program then use ISO C++. But if you want to reuse your C++ code and integrate it with newer
I'd be interested in stats on what OS and web services these sites were running.
Because of the relative ease they seemed to be cracked into, I'm assuming they were Windows boxes with IIS... but I figured that part of the world was heavy on Linux... so I'm confused...
Btw, Mohamed would certainly be against this kind of vandalism.
Also the name sucks. At best its confusing, at worst its offensive.
How's it offensive?
I was born with a left club foot. Fortunately, it was braced and reset before I can remember. Even though I've always walked with a slight (almost unoticeable) limp, I've never considered myself inferior in any way. The word gimp has never crossed my mind as being offensive. What I find offensive though, is when people try to tell me that I should be offended by. Gimp (in one of its definitions) is just a descriptive word for someone with a limp, so I'm a gimp, big fricking deal...
Ctrl-E. Wow, that was so difficult.
No, pressing Ctrl+E is not difficult... but intuitavely discovering that, given GIMP's interface, is.
I'm no graphics artist, but I've been using GIMP for years on my photos... for a time it was the best free graphics program you could get for Windows... or was, until I discovered another great open-source program, Paint.NET. For my needs the difference is like night and day. Interfaces DO matter, and Paint.NET's is just more intuitive (proof of that is that I haven't felt the need yet to read any of their documentation... if they even have any!).
Interesting to see that Bill Gates hasn't changed much in 30 years! He still hates casual software piracy; the only difference is now he has much more influence...
Difference to whom?
Him? No, he believes in software ownership, and always has.
You? Probably yes, because pirating software nowadays can have more negative consequences than it use too... especially because software/technology producers have more influence today.
Personally, I find supporting open-source software much more rewarding than downloading a pirated copy of whatever. For starters, there's a lot of excellent OSS out there nowadays and participating in it, even if only as a user, helps it mature further. Plus, I believe that if someone wants you to pay for something they've created (or bought the rights too) then you must respect their wishes.
IMO, pirated software is for chumps. If you want a particular piece of retail software, then pay for it, otherwise grow some balls and support OSS... but please don't support pirating software and OSS too, it does neither camps of opinion any good.
You are doing business in China, by buying their goods, but you are not evil. Why are you applying a double standard to Google?
By buying Chinese goods, I'm primarily supporting the economic livelyhood of the Chinese people. Only on some small indirect level can you say I'm aiding their opressive government.
Look at the U.S.'s embargo of Cuban goods, all that's done is impoverish the people. The communist Cuban government is still as strong as ever.
Google, on the other hand, is directly implementing PRC's censorship policy NOT FOR ANY BENIFIT OF THE PEOPLE but so that they can do business in China.
This story has been spinned in so many directions that I'm getting dizzy.
But, whatever colored glasses you choose to wear, a few facts remain undisputable...
1) Chinese government actively censors certain information from its people
2) Google wants to do business in China
3) At China's demand, Google censors certain information from it's google.cn search replies
4) Once, on Google's FAQ page, a few statements existed regarding the company's belief in a democratic and uncensored distribution of information... those statements have been removed recently.
Whether someone is wrong or right in all this depends (partly) on how you rate the importance/goodness of some of these facts in relation to each other.
So who has a link to the Google cache of the article?
I'm trying to look it up on goolge.cn, but all I'm getting are pages about the virtues of some sort of party.
Google hand over search logs which would seriously comprimise the privacy, and perhaps the security, of a large number of citizens.
wait, why is Google storing compromising information about me and my search habits in the first place?!
This company sounds more and more evil each day... I wouldn't be surprised if they started selectively filtering out content in order to control the informed opinions of its users.
For starters, China isn't a communist state. It hasn't been in over 30 years. It's a Capitalist Dictatorship (aka Facism).
According to Communist doctorine... the communist state is the last stage of a progressive application of varying facist governings. It's the final state that the people are working to achieve, and it's a state where everyone pitches in equally enough so that a government structure is no longer necessary. So, there has technically never been a "real communist state" in history, just varying states attempting to approach it. In common language, though, refering to a "communist state" usually means a state in one of the stages working towards communism so technically he was right to say "communist state".
Giggle. Right on, brother. We only approve of America's oppressive style of government!
Try saying something like that in China about the Chinese government... then let us know how much giggling you do when you're thrown in jail for upwards to a decade (as its commonly the case).
Google doesn't have guns.. The Government does.
Google has a far stronger weapon than any gun... the ability to make easy the free exchange of ideas and knowledge.