It can happen. Dutch and Turkish both have extremely regular spelling. In the case of Turkish, this is because the entire alphabet was changed in the 20s from an Arabic script to a Latin one (i.e. they had the guts to break backward compatibility for long-term gain). Dutch spelling is regular because, well, the Dutch are like that. Polder model and so forth.
The problem English would face is that it's so widespread that anybody who pioneered regular spelling would look pretty stupid. Alas.
Islam idealogy is very explicit about what to do with nonbelievers (kill them).
Jews were not oppressed in Spain until the Catholics took control again (which had the benefit of giving the Netherlands Erasmus, but still). The oppression of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire was largely limited to tax penalties. In contrast, oppression of non-Christians (and even the wrong sort of Christians) in Europe became official policy in the fourth century. The current mood of tolerance, while certainly trendy, is more of a social phenomenon than a scriptural directive.
Christian idealogy forbids murder and does not endorse war.
I think linvir meant "Pardon my bias, which is thinly veiled, poorly."
Does that help?
So much for brevity. Mono allows a lot of things to run on Free software platforms. You chose to ignore this in favour of a vague appeal to untested patent problems. Many people would see this as bias masquerading as insightfulness.
I thought it to be completely relevant in order to dismiss people complaining that one language is more error prone than another.
Why do you dismiss a complaint which speaks to the very heart of the problem? A large class of bugs simply would not exist were a different language used. This is not pie in the sky stuff; it's a real phenomenon.
If one language is less error-prone than another, then an application written in that language will have less bugs.
If an error-prone language is being used to write software, then this surely has to be a reason why buggy software gets shipped. Why are you dismissing people who complain about error-prone languages?
You can't seriously believe that running MINIX is going to magically give you expertise that lets you talk about operating system kernel design.
I think that Dr Tannenbaum may have been aiming his comments at the many people who talk about microkernels without any experience whatsoever. Surely at least running one puts you a tiny little rung above that.
Both Tanenbaum and Torvalds can teach a lot in OS design and implentation. If they don't agree, thay have to proof their point.
Real proof, I mean, on real hardware.
Right on. We can't be the only people who are utterly sick of all this talk, talk, talk. You know, what they should do is go away and just implement their idea of a kernel, which they could release with source, and we could all have a look and decide. But it doesn't count unless it runs on real hardware!
Another data point: I just searched from the Netherlands, and the sponsored links Google threw up had a number of Dutch Linux sites, which always warms my heart.
The prisoners at Gitmo are not soldiers, they are not field troops, they are private citizens who have decided to kill large numbers of people who's government they disagree with.
It turns out to be better to switch 2/3 of the time. There's a couple of ways to think about it; one is by noting that you had a 1/3 chance of picking the right door in the first place, which means there's a 2/3 chance that the prize is behind one of the others. Switching after Monty opens a door is like making a choice of "one of those two." Which is clearly better.
Or look at it this way: consider a variant where there's 100 doors. You pick one, then Monty opens 98 empty doors. Are you still going to stick with your choice? Of course not; you will have a 99/100 chance of getting the prize by switching.
The extra information you have is that Monty knows where the prize is.
N Korea is under heavy heavy sanctions and needs crude oil. Iraq needed nuclear fuel for a hydrogen bomb. I suspect they were either about to make a trade, or they had already made the trade.
Oh, so it wasn't the Nigerians at all -- it was the evil Koreans! You know, if you could somehow fit Iran into the mix, you'd have a trifecta.
I'm fascinated by the revelation that Iraq decided to skip those boring old fission devices and go straight to a hydrogen bomb.
I have never seen a distribution that restricts you to three simultaneously running applications. Nor a special Linux that only allows two users at a time to connect remotely.
The differences between Linux distributions seem to be about empowering the user; the Windows ones seem to be trying to find a price point.
The problem with what you said is that a skin graft or bag of blood will not grow into a person.
Suppose that will one day be possible to grow a person from a liver cell. This is not entirely far-fetched. Does that mean I'm morally obliged to stop drinking?
... and when somebody cries "child molestor", you can always reply "bad speller"; this invariably puts them back in their place.
People have been making lists since before The Mikado; if that's illegal then so is being human. But personally, being on a list -- good or bad -- makes me fret.
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I liked the alleged Michael Collins suggestion: "If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh, my God, what is that thing?' then scream and cut your mic."
I get to pick two, right?
It can happen. Dutch and Turkish both have extremely regular spelling. In the case of Turkish, this is because the entire alphabet was changed in the 20s from an Arabic script to a Latin one (i.e. they had the guts to break backward compatibility for long-term gain). Dutch spelling is regular because, well, the Dutch are like that. Polder model and so forth.
The problem English would face is that it's so widespread that anybody who pioneered regular spelling would look pretty stupid. Alas.
Islam idealogy is very explicit about what to do with nonbelievers (kill them).
Jews were not oppressed in Spain until the Catholics took control again (which had the benefit of giving the Netherlands Erasmus, but still). The oppression of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire was largely limited to tax penalties. In contrast, oppression of non-Christians (and even the wrong sort of Christians) in Europe became official policy in the fourth century. The current mood of tolerance, while certainly trendy, is more of a social phenomenon than a scriptural directive.
Christian idealogy forbids murder and does not endorse war.
Have you actually read the Bible?
PS: Ideology.
Does that help?
So much for brevity. Mono allows a lot of things to run on Free software platforms. You chose to ignore this in favour of a vague appeal to untested patent problems. Many people would see this as bias masquerading as insightfulness.
Also, you're kinda defensive.
Why do you dismiss a complaint which speaks to the very heart of the problem? A large class of bugs simply would not exist were a different language used. This is not pie in the sky stuff; it's a real phenomenon.
If one language is less error-prone than another, then an application written in that language will have less bugs.
If an error-prone language is being used to write software, then this surely has to be a reason why buggy software gets shipped. Why are you dismissing people who complain about error-prone languages?
I think that Dr Tannenbaum may have been aiming his comments at the many people who talk about microkernels without any experience whatsoever. Surely at least running one puts you a tiny little rung above that.
Right on. We can't be the only people who are utterly sick of all this talk, talk, talk. You know, what they should do is go away and just implement their idea of a kernel, which they could release with source, and we could all have a look and decide. But it doesn't count unless it runs on real hardware!
MSN thought I was in Arabia.
I promise you, I'm not kidding.
So why aren't they in jail awaiting trial?
Or look at it this way: consider a variant where there's 100 doors. You pick one, then Monty opens 98 empty doors. Are you still going to stick with your choice? Of course not; you will have a 99/100 chance of getting the prize by switching.
The extra information you have is that Monty knows where the prize is.
Oh, so it wasn't the Nigerians at all -- it was the evil Koreans! You know, if you could somehow fit Iran into the mix, you'd have a trifecta.
I'm fascinated by the revelation that Iraq decided to skip those boring old fission devices and go straight to a hydrogen bomb.
Australia. But hey ho, the cricket team is quite good.
I have never seen a distribution that restricts you to three simultaneously running applications. Nor a special Linux that only allows two users at a time to connect remotely.
The differences between Linux distributions seem to be about empowering the user; the Windows ones seem to be trying to find a price point.
The problem with what you said is that a skin graft or bag of blood will not grow into a person. Suppose that will one day be possible to grow a person from a liver cell. This is not entirely far-fetched. Does that mean I'm morally obliged to stop drinking?
... and when somebody cries "child molestor", you can always reply "bad speller"; this invariably puts them back in their place. People have been making lists since before The Mikado; if that's illegal then so is being human. But personally, being on a list -- good or bad -- makes me fret.