The article is clear and utter BS. Poopoo de Toro.
This is akin to "Flying Cars Will Reinvent the Commute", "Water as Fuel Will End the Energy Crisis", "Slapping Wheels on Your Grandmother's Butt Will Make Her a Wagon".
IMAX on a home computer - Excuse the F&ck out of me, but most homes don't have HDTV or even digital. Then, most don't have the space for a screen larger than 50". IMAX from your home computer isn't really revolutionizing the computer, it's revolutionizing (maybe) home entertainment. MISCATEGORIZED FLYING CAR!!!
Air mouse - What? What? What!!?!! Has this jerk-off seen the Wii? Great for gaming, but try this exercise, pick up your mouse, wave it in the air as if you were mousing on your screen. Now, imagine doing that all day at work. STOP!!! Did I say put the mouse down, keep it up. I'll let you know when you can put the mouse down. BOOT CAMP PT TORTURE EXERCISE!!!
Quantum Computers - Yeah maybe, but how about size and form factor improvements while maintaining useability. STAR TREK TELEPORTER!!!
Extreme Peer to Peer - What?!? Take one of the most overused ideas, slap some lipstick on that pig, and say it will revolutionize computing? PIG IN A DRESS!!!
The Man-Made Brain - People are having enough difficulties with their nature-made brand, just what I want, Intel making me a brain. I guess if floating point math is no longer important to me, I might care. FLYING F*CKING CAR!!!
What gets me is the one who modded my statement as "troll".
Is it possible that Cuba has people reading/. and they don't like "Fidel in Drag" jokes? Or, do you think Stallman, peace be upon the prophet, doesn't like Cuba jokes and just happened to have mod points?
See, now I'm going to get all the Stallman, holiness is his name, accolytes modding me down.
When Castro dies, his brother Ramon will take over.
I thought his brother was Raul?
By the way, did you ever wonder what happened to the other Castro Brothers?
Chico - Working at a small garage in Havana keeping all the '58 Chevy's runny. And, installing the little nodding dogs in the back window
Ramone - Last seen doing a drag impersonation of his older brother Fidel in a Miami club
Harpo - Makes the best Mohitos in Ft. Lauderdale, doesn't talk much
Julio (now Conchita) - Works a corner in New York City
Juan - Was standing against a wall, when an entire line of soldiers, cleaning their weapons, accidentally shot him. This had nothing to do with an argument he had with his younger brother Fidel, the night before, about who played the best Darren on "Bewitched"
Raymondo - Fled Cuba after painting the slogan "Dick York Lives" on the side of Fidel's prized Bel Air sedan
For example, drawing arrows between words, and encoding the information about which arrow points to which, in an xml-type text file.
Hey, you can just grab an open source word processor and add the feature! Open Office would be great for this!
Sorry, just me kidding.
I think you are just being humble. The responses that you got, and those that contribute but get no response are indicitive of the a problem. Imagine if you go to your boss with reports and submissions. You put it in his inbox and never hear word one from him. I bet you have your resume making the rounds fairly quick.
My first screenplay made the rounds. But, I always received a receipt acknowledgement or rejection, detailed or not, from each agent it hit. My second did the same, then I received a phone call from a fairly well known film maker who spent an hour on the phone with me as we discussed the script and its problems. Did he buy it? No. But, after that, do you think I gave up? No way. I still write and submit. I've been published, produced (stage), and optioned (screen). (One of these days, I may just be produced for the screen.) But, when I submit to professionals, I always get a reply. I just wish OSS projects would do that, at a minimum - "Thank you for you submission. Unfortunately, we cannot respond to personally at this time. We will review it and if it meets our needs, we will contact you. Thank you for participating and please, keep supporting OSS with your submissions."
Open source programs are typically not well-commented and searchable enough for a capable outsider to improve upon without significant investment of time.
Goddammit, Sir, why did you have to post after I used all my mod points? You have provided, not only for the OSS world but developers in general, the single most important point when it comes to maintainability.
I run several servers and desktop systems. Some open, some closed. I have tons of source code, some for open systems, some for closed systems where I participate as a maintainer, developer, or reviewer. Much of the OSS stuff is unusuable except by the team that developed it. Yes, an outsider can come in, look at the code and study it but he/she is going to spend a ton of time "getting up to speed". The only batches of code that I've been able to instantly access and work with are those from projects/developers who decided that they would rather take 3 months to turn out well commented and tested code rather than take 3 weeks to churn and burn crap code that is only marginally better than old BASIC spaghetti code.
We'll comment later.
We'll break that method up into smaller more logical chunks later.
O.k. I realize "DoIt" is a bad function name, but I was stuck at that time. I'll rename it later.
Yes, I realize the code we are leveraging is less commented than ours, formatted even worse, and half Chinese, a third Korean, but, we have a plan to fix that in a future roll.
Careful now, all of you Slashdotties are going to be grossly guilty of hypocrisy if you don't support the twins right to make a mix CD. Unreasoned Bushy-hate should be no substitute for doing the "right thing". (That is, if you consider making a mix CD the right thing.)
For all you that feel making a mix CD is piracy, by all means, proceed to bash.
In other news:
The IRS is investigating this lawyer and auditing his returns all the way back to 1973. Apparently, he didn't claim income for his paper route.
The Florida State Bar association has been directed to open up disbarrment procedures.
The Justice Department has opened an investigation stemming from a 1973 incident where he let a customer, an 83 year old widow on a cat food diet, on his aforementioned paper route, not pay her paper bill.
The U.S. Army is charging him as a deserter for not reporting as a draftee in 1973 when he was 11 years old.
The McCarthy Committee on UnAmerican Activities was recalled to investigate the paper route incidents as a possible indicator of Commie leanings.
The Audubon Society has been ordered to investigate the lawyer because he keeps a parakeet in a cage.
The Bush Administration has stated that they know of no connection between these and the lawyer's actions regarding the twins.
Only if you are racists towards someone who is not looking to be offended.
<sarcasm>Remember, it is impossible to be racist if you don't have power. It is impossible to be racist if the person you are discriminating against is part of a group that was once known to have racist members. It is impossible to be racist against WASPs. It's not racist request special treatment because of your...wait for it...race.</sarcasm>
The word 'open' implies more than just being able to view the source. It implies what you should be able to do with it. We need some standards. Letting companies attach any meaning they please to a common term makes the term useless.
We need to restrict people to OUR version of Freedom (Note: RMS has requested that we call it GNUFreedom). Only by removing all other choices can we make others free from the needing to make a choice. Only by making sure they make the GNURight choice can anyone be truly GNUFree. If a person does not see that this is truly GNUFreedom, then we must ridicule, berate, and bring tort until the individual accepts the GNUTruth and becomes truly GNUFree.
Sir, your GNUSarcasm doesn't help.
Oh, sorry, I GNUAppoligize.
Good, now the GNUCatechism: It is by surrendering all choice that I become truly free from freedom. It is truly freedom to be freed of making choices. GNUFreedom is our God and RMS is its GNUProphet. Blessed be GNUFreedom, blessed be the GNUProphet, GNUHoliness on his GNUName.
FREE... YOU AREN'T LOSING MONEY IF SOMEONE SUPPOSEDLY RIPS YOU OFF. It's free
How dare you, sir?
Why, that smacks of almost the same argument of copying music, "I wasn't going to buy the CD anyway, so if I download the.mp3 its not like the record companies and band are going to lose money on it."
How dare you turn the argument back on itself. The nerve. The gall.
Google has been flying this thing for photo recon already. How the hell do you think they get those shots of women with those ever lovely thong handles?
I want apps; Free, $$$, Open, Closed, Install-a-take-over-the-world, I just want fucking apps that I will USE. That means, Windows or Apple. Until I see an aisle at the store or the box says, "CD includes installer for Windows and BSD and Linux" I'm going to stay on my Windows machine and occassionally install a Linux VM to see if anything has improved.
I want more commercial apps. Screw your socio-economic fanboy crapolla. It may feel good, but if it doesn't do what I want and how I want it to, then I'm not buying it.
If cuba is so bad, and Fidel is so evil and they want him dead (isnt that against the law somewhere?)
Cuba is bad because Castro seized American assets during the revolution and pissed off...
Cuba and Fidel (government and dictator) are bad because Cuba (the people) are not free as in GPL2 Freedom, they are Free as in GPL3 Freedom. Choice is removed, so they are Free From Choice. So, they are free to go about their lives within the strict confines of not needing to worry about making choices.
I first learned about Object Oriented Programing by reading the SmallTalk issue of Byte.
That had to be one of my most favorite issues. I remembered thinking, how can I do this with my existing tools. I still get nostalgic for that issue when I see SmallTalk on a programming timeline/genealogy chart. Wish I had kept it, because I'd like to compare it to what OOP has become now.
Oh, just talked to the guy I sold my old Kaypro II to. He thinks its up in the rafters of his garage.
And, you probably remember, Radio Shack was the place to get all the parts you needed, and the guy behind the counter knew how to building an oscillator and could look at your hand drawn schematic and know what it was you were doing.
Now, its some snot that doesn't want to help you find a pot because he makes more money selling cell phones to geezers who don't need them.
Oh, sorry, nurse says its time for my meds and a then I get to sit in the garden.
Right on! Real hackers prefer to pay for magazines with a tiny predetermined set of information. Only lusers and n00bs read stuff online for free.
<BackInMyDayRant>Hey, kiddo,:), back then, there was no "online" unless you were at a University or the time-share budget was gold. And when you were "online" it wasn't this nice wizbang WWW stuff. Back then, you were desperately trying to squeeze code AND data into 4k (or if you were lucky, you could write code to bank switch 16k). You had to get your timing right to get the phone into the acoustic cups, and Gods forbid you had a slim-line phone that didn't work well, or someone would fire up a vacuum cleaner and interfere with the modem noise. And you prayed that your paper tape would last through one more read because you were always too lazy to run another dump, or the department ran out of blank stock. And "hacking" was building or altering your own hardware to make it work with other hardware. It wasn't the script attack Angelina Jollie movie version.</BackInMyDayRant>
Another fun project from the day: Building your own keyboard. Why? Because your computer didn't have one. Don't forget, you had to wire wrap the interface for it as well. That was fun, none of this, "Why doesn't the manufacturer include Linux drivers?" business. But, then, I drove a Vega, had a silk shirt and white belt, had long hair, had a puka shell necklace, the Moody Blues had broken up, Ford was a President who couldn't stay on his feet. Movies like "Drive In" and "Car Wash" were funny, "Jaws" was scary, and it wasn't 5-25-77 yet.
Are there any programming magazines that still have code listings?
I subscribe to ASP.NET Pro Magazine. They have a lot of articles with code. They run multipart articles with entire solutions and code. Plus, they have a complete archive of old articles and source.
Back in the '70s, one of my first apps was taken from a magazine article that with code for a "dungeon" game. It was a learning exercise to translate to something useable on my machine (syntax and all). Then, I started to alter it, expand it, and use the code for new things. I was trying to take a static dungeon game and make it expandable. Later, Don Brown came out with EAMON and the code looked very familiar. I'm sure he was inspired by the same set of games.
In a law and order society, an armed citizenry is more polite, has less crime, and can usually enjoy living without fortress level protections in their home, i.e. alarms, deadbolts, and the occassional panic room.
In a lawless society, arms make the difference on both sides and yes there will be problems. But, then there are bigger fish to fry in that case. But armed citizens can still defend themselves against rebel militias, looters, and mobs.
The cities in the U.S., a law and order society, that have the highest crime rates, also have the most strict, draconian gun laws. San Francisco, Washington, D.C., NYC, etc. and, in those areas, the normal citizen is not armed, but the criminals often are.
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The article is clear and utter BS. Poopoo de Toro.
This is akin to "Flying Cars Will Reinvent the Commute", "Water as Fuel Will End the Energy Crisis", "Slapping Wheels on Your Grandmother's Butt Will Make Her a Wagon".
Probably goes to see her uncle's show.
I'm worried about that, as well.
What gets me is the one who modded my statement as "troll".
Is it possible that Cuba has people reading /. and they don't like "Fidel in Drag" jokes? Or, do you think Stallman, peace be upon the prophet, doesn't like Cuba jokes and just happened to have mod points?
See, now I'm going to get all the Stallman, holiness is his name, accolytes modding me down.
Do you mean larger, heavier, taller? Or, older?
Is Ramon still doing the drag show in Miami?
I thought his brother was Raul?
By the way, did you ever wonder what happened to the other Castro Brothers?
Hey, you can just grab an open source word processor and add the feature! Open Office would be great for this!
Sorry, just me kidding.
I think you are just being humble. The responses that you got, and those that contribute but get no response are indicitive of the a problem. Imagine if you go to your boss with reports and submissions. You put it in his inbox and never hear word one from him. I bet you have your resume making the rounds fairly quick.
My first screenplay made the rounds. But, I always received a receipt acknowledgement or rejection, detailed or not, from each agent it hit. My second did the same, then I received a phone call from a fairly well known film maker who spent an hour on the phone with me as we discussed the script and its problems. Did he buy it? No. But, after that, do you think I gave up? No way. I still write and submit. I've been published, produced (stage), and optioned (screen). (One of these days, I may just be produced for the screen.) But, when I submit to professionals, I always get a reply. I just wish OSS projects would do that, at a minimum - "Thank you for you submission. Unfortunately, we cannot respond to personally at this time. We will review it and if it meets our needs, we will contact you. Thank you for participating and please, keep supporting OSS with your submissions."
Goddammit, Sir, why did you have to post after I used all my mod points? You have provided, not only for the OSS world but developers in general, the single most important point when it comes to maintainability.
I run several servers and desktop systems. Some open, some closed. I have tons of source code, some for open systems, some for closed systems where I participate as a maintainer, developer, or reviewer. Much of the OSS stuff is unusuable except by the team that developed it. Yes, an outsider can come in, look at the code and study it but he/she is going to spend a ton of time "getting up to speed". The only batches of code that I've been able to instantly access and work with are those from projects/developers who decided that they would rather take 3 months to turn out well commented and tested code rather than take 3 weeks to churn and burn crap code that is only marginally better than old BASIC spaghetti code.
Careful now, all of you Slashdotties are going to be grossly guilty of hypocrisy if you don't support the twins right to make a mix CD. Unreasoned Bushy-hate should be no substitute for doing the "right thing". (That is, if you consider making a mix CD the right thing.)
For all you that feel making a mix CD is piracy, by all means, proceed to bash.
In other news:
The Bush Administration has stated that they know of no connection between these and the lawyer's actions regarding the twins.
Clams have legs!!!
Only if you are racists towards someone who is not looking to be offended.
<sarcasm>Remember, it is impossible to be racist if you don't have power. It is impossible to be racist if the person you are discriminating against is part of a group that was once known to have racist members. It is impossible to be racist against WASPs. It's not racist request special treatment because of your...wait for it...race.</sarcasm>
It's all fun and games until someone makes fun of YOUR religion.
We need tags for <falseindignation> and <facetious>.
We need to restrict people to OUR version of Freedom (Note: RMS has requested that we call it GNUFreedom). Only by removing all other choices can we make others free from the needing to make a choice. Only by making sure they make the GNURight choice can anyone be truly GNUFree. If a person does not see that this is truly GNUFreedom, then we must ridicule, berate, and bring tort until the individual accepts the GNUTruth and becomes truly GNUFree.
Sir, your GNUSarcasm doesn't help.
Oh, sorry, I GNUAppoligize.
Good, now the GNUCatechism: It is by surrendering all choice that I become truly free from freedom. It is truly freedom to be freed of making choices. GNUFreedom is our God and RMS is its GNUProphet. Blessed be GNUFreedom, blessed be the GNUProphet, GNUHoliness on his GNUName.
How dare you, sir?
Why, that smacks of almost the same argument of copying music, "I wasn't going to buy the CD anyway, so if I download the .mp3 its not like the record companies and band are going to lose money on it."
How dare you turn the argument back on itself. The nerve. The gall.
(Damn, I wish someone would come up with a tag.)
Google has been flying this thing for photo recon already. How the hell do you think they get those shots of women with those ever lovely thong handles?
I want apps; Free, $$$, Open, Closed, Install-a-take-over-the-world, I just want fucking apps that I will USE. That means, Windows or Apple. Until I see an aisle at the store or the box says, "CD includes installer for Windows and BSD and Linux" I'm going to stay on my Windows machine and occassionally install a Linux VM to see if anything has improved.
I want more commercial apps. Screw your socio-economic fanboy crapolla. It may feel good, but if it doesn't do what I want and how I want it to, then I'm not buying it.
...turn it into a Sinclair ZX81 to prove that it can be done?
What's next? ReactOS on a Cray?
Until the reduction surgery, I was considered over hung.
Don't you mean 1900 to 1901? Remember the hype? Y2K was not the new century. New centuries always start on the xx01 year.
You stand corrected. No need to thank me.
Cuba and Fidel (government and dictator) are bad because Cuba (the people) are not free as in GPL2 Freedom, they are Free as in GPL3 Freedom. Choice is removed, so they are Free From Choice. So, they are free to go about their lives within the strict confines of not needing to worry about making choices.
That had to be one of my most favorite issues. I remembered thinking, how can I do this with my existing tools. I still get nostalgic for that issue when I see SmallTalk on a programming timeline/genealogy chart. Wish I had kept it, because I'd like to compare it to what OOP has become now.
Oh, just talked to the guy I sold my old Kaypro II to. He thinks its up in the rafters of his garage.
And, you probably remember, Radio Shack was the place to get all the parts you needed, and the guy behind the counter knew how to building an oscillator and could look at your hand drawn schematic and know what it was you were doing.
Now, its some snot that doesn't want to help you find a pot because he makes more money selling cell phones to geezers who don't need them.
Oh, sorry, nurse says its time for my meds and a then I get to sit in the garden.
<BackInMyDayRant>Hey, kiddo, :), back then, there was no "online" unless you were at a University or the time-share budget was gold. And when you were "online" it wasn't this nice wizbang WWW stuff. Back then, you were desperately trying to squeeze code AND data into 4k (or if you were lucky, you could write code to bank switch 16k). You had to get your timing right to get the phone into the acoustic cups, and Gods forbid you had a slim-line phone that didn't work well, or someone would fire up a vacuum cleaner and interfere with the modem noise. And you prayed that your paper tape would last through one more read because you were always too lazy to run another dump, or the department ran out of blank stock. And "hacking" was building or altering your own hardware to make it work with other hardware. It wasn't the script attack Angelina Jollie movie version.</BackInMyDayRant>
Another fun project from the day: Building your own keyboard. Why? Because your computer didn't have one. Don't forget, you had to wire wrap the interface for it as well. That was fun, none of this, "Why doesn't the manufacturer include Linux drivers?" business. But, then, I drove a Vega, had a silk shirt and white belt, had long hair, had a puka shell necklace, the Moody Blues had broken up, Ford was a President who couldn't stay on his feet. Movies like "Drive In" and "Car Wash" were funny, "Jaws" was scary, and it wasn't 5-25-77 yet.
I subscribe to ASP.NET Pro Magazine. They have a lot of articles with code. They run multipart articles with entire solutions and code. Plus, they have a complete archive of old articles and source.
Back in the '70s, one of my first apps was taken from a magazine article that with code for a "dungeon" game. It was a learning exercise to translate to something useable on my machine (syntax and all). Then, I started to alter it, expand it, and use the code for new things. I was trying to take a static dungeon game and make it expandable. Later, Don Brown came out with EAMON and the code looked very familiar. I'm sure he was inspired by the same set of games.
I even attempted a version of EAMON in FORTH.
From there, I became a programmer.
In a law and order society, an armed citizenry is more polite, has less crime, and can usually enjoy living without fortress level protections in their home, i.e. alarms, deadbolts, and the occassional panic room.
In a lawless society, arms make the difference on both sides and yes there will be problems. But, then there are bigger fish to fry in that case. But armed citizens can still defend themselves against rebel militias, looters, and mobs.
The cities in the U.S., a law and order society, that have the highest crime rates, also have the most strict, draconian gun laws. San Francisco, Washington, D.C., NYC, etc. and, in those areas, the normal citizen is not armed, but the criminals often are.