> This isn't a big deal for a += 1 , but certainly is for a more complex assignment like a[index].attribute += 1
Syntactically only (not that syntactic sugar is a bad thing here). If a compiler can't optimize this with at least a refcount elimination, then it's a complete joke. I suspect python's optimizer is able to detect this sort of trivial case.
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> As some people had predicted, the formation of the GNOME Foundation is having more of an effect on KDE than the KDE leaders had claimed possible
KDE is already GPL
Troll Tech does not produce KDE
Troll Tech does not make reactionary rush decisions, and probably had this in their pocket for some time.
Troll Tech has produced a usable product. The GNOME foundation has produced press releases.
I speculate that a letter from RMS explaining how the GPL (as opposed to LGPL) would protect their "free software only" clause had a lot more to do with it than flaming cretins on slashdot.
> Whatever packing is used, it needs to be kept simple. RPM isn't. I don't know the inner details of.DEB yet
Makes RPM look simple, that's what. It requires a whole *directory* full of miscellaneous spec type files, and about 4 different programs to build. Nightmarish, really.
'course, consider the fact that you're about the umpteenth "adventurer" to come around their camp. they sell you stuff, but you make them buy back what was probably their old weapons, and they don't raise an eyebrow when you loot their crypt, mausoleum, and what's left of their monastery.
personally i just wonder how i manage to kill a cloud of gnats with a spear, then they drop a chain mail. strong bugs.
Someone moderate this guy up, it's a well-reasoned reply to my pretty heated point (some would say flame). Cold reality is that you're in the minority, and that while game makers may appreciate your loyalty, games need to recoup their cost with volume. Probably 90% of all copies of SC3K that will ever be sold have been sold. To make things worse for Loki, possibly half or more of the target market has already bought it for windows.
Old games tend to be viewed through rose-colored glasses anyway -- you don't remember the ones that stunk.
Watch out, the CNet review contains pretty much a complete giveaway of the ending of Diablo2, so if you haven't finished it yet (e.g. Taco) then I'd hold off on reading the review. As for screenshots, only thing that's going to look different is the cinematics anyway... and snow on the rigidly square-tiled square-walled "outdoor" environments.
> Personally, I would consider this lag to be an advantage
Utilizing only the twisted logic that a Mac Evangalist can use. The game is over a year old. Most people have already uninstalled it from Windows. It's a bargain bin game and will sell like ice cubes in antarctica. Face reality, Mac and Linux is still a second-class game platform.
> Go into a sun office and i bet you will find hundreds of PC's running Windows, Windows NT and Windows 2000.
Laptops, yes. There are no desktop PC's used for anything but testing in day-to-day operations at Sun. Obviously Java development would be an exception. Only time I ever had PC support issues at Sun was with laptops trying to get DHCP addresses.
One problem is that "Eat Your Own Dog Food" is not very far away from "Not Invented Here"
How is this single product announcement newsworthy? It's not even a marginally new category of product. So hard up for material that Slashdot posts random product launch press releases now?
> MP3 is a proprietary format. They buy the rights to the MP3 format, and charge any site that distributes MP3's a "license fee" similar to the one that Unisys tried to levy against websites that use GIF's
I'm sure the folks at Ogg Vorbis are getting a hard-on just THINKING about that possibility.
> Oh. I'm glad now that my new discman isn't a Sony.
That's okay, they get a cut from every single CD you put in it anyway. Loads more if it's by a Sony-owned label of course. I'd say nice try, but it didn't even sound like one.
They can get away with this crap as long as you keep buying CD's. They get a royalty off of every single one. Stealing it from Napster isn't the right answer either. Go see a local band. Live.
Ten years time, you take a job. If you ever want to leave the company, you're going to need complete retraining in a different field. Anyone who takes a job in the same career ends up breaking NDAs. Pretty soon half the workforce is unemployable in any job they're trained for!
Thankfully, that sort of thing is unenforceable in California, and probably several other states too (but CA is still the 800lb gorilla of the tech industry). Basically, you cannot be kept from practicing your profession, so non-competes are birdcage liner there. NDA's can't keep you from working at another company, it's impossible to NDA your knowledge of C, or microelectronics, or project management.
> Are you aware of anyone who has had success with hot-desking?
Sun Microsystems is doing it as they move everyone there over to Sun Ray appliances, but they're not doing that repulsive "hotelling" concept so common in government offices. You *can* move your session around, but you still have your personal desk/cube/office space. It's great, I could illustrate a problem by duplicating it in my session, pulling out my card, and sticking it in the sunray of the other tech helping me.
Works nice, and it's not creating many more single failure points than a full NIS and NFS environment already does. Have to throw a whole lot of hardware into the servers and network of course, but it's still cheaper than the constant service of desktops.
Baloney. There were plenty of CRPG's being published immediately before BG, like the Might and Magic series, Fallout, Fallout 2 (Black Isle sure helped revive the genre, I'll give it that), Lands of Lore. BG just happened to sell well. BG is barely even a RPG (but boy howdy is its combat cooler than Diablo) since the main character basically has no identity, and the NPC's are wholly interchangeable and play no part whatsoever in the story.
> But when one distributes the modified forms, the source must still be distributed under the terms in section 3
Still not true. Read section 4b again. 3 exists so you don't need to redistribute the WHOLE package, 4 exists so that if you do elect to distribute a modified version, it MUST be the whole package. Simply asking Troll Tech or the KDE folks would make this clear too, but you would have no commerce with agents of Satan himself, I gather.
I'm getting tired of the selective reading skills employed by the anti-Qt crowd. The abomination that is moc should be reason enough.
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> This isn't a big deal for a += 1 , but certainly is for a more complex assignment like a[index].attribute += 1
Syntactically only (not that syntactic sugar is a bad thing here). If a compiler can't optimize this with at least a refcount elimination, then it's a complete joke. I suspect python's optimizer is able to detect this sort of trivial case.
Correct. I was referring to the byzantine build system of debian.
> Unless I'm mistaken, Unicode is a combination of two ASCII characters to create a single one
You are mistaken.
> Whatever packing is used, it needs to be kept simple. RPM isn't. I don't know the inner details of .DEB yet
Makes RPM look simple, that's what. It requires a whole *directory* full of miscellaneous spec type files, and about 4 different programs to build. Nightmarish, really.
'course, consider the fact that you're about the umpteenth "adventurer" to come around their camp. they sell you stuff, but you make them buy back what was probably their old weapons, and they don't raise an eyebrow when you loot their crypt, mausoleum, and what's left of their monastery.
personally i just wonder how i manage to kill a cloud of gnats with a spear, then they drop a chain mail. strong bugs.
Someone moderate this guy up, it's a well-reasoned reply to my pretty heated point (some would say flame). Cold reality is that you're in the minority, and that while game makers may appreciate your loyalty, games need to recoup their cost with volume. Probably 90% of all copies of SC3K that will ever be sold have been sold. To make things worse for Loki, possibly half or more of the target market has already bought it for windows.
Old games tend to be viewed through rose-colored glasses anyway -- you don't remember the ones that stunk.
Watch out, the CNet review contains pretty much a complete giveaway of the ending of Diablo2, so if you haven't finished it yet (e.g. Taco) then I'd hold off on reading the review. As for screenshots, only thing that's going to look different is the cinematics anyway ... and snow on the rigidly square-tiled square-walled "outdoor" environments.
Worse, Opera still doesn't include built-in support for common Web tools such as Macromedia Shockwave or Java.
Then about an inch over to the right are a couple links to download.com, for Opera (Non-Java Enabled) and Opera (Java Enabled)
1) Some of those errors are in user content. Slashdot has no control over it.
2) Slashdot has to generate defensive HTML to protect against things like links that never close, as well as formatting tags that screw up the whole page layout. The spec was not designed with that in mind.
> Personally, I would consider this lag to be an advantage
Utilizing only the twisted logic that a Mac Evangalist can use. The game is over a year old. Most people have already uninstalled it from Windows. It's a bargain bin game and will sell like ice cubes in antarctica. Face reality, Mac and Linux is still a second-class game platform.
> Go into a sun office and i bet you will find hundreds of PC's running Windows, Windows NT and Windows 2000.
Laptops, yes. There are no desktop PC's used for anything but testing in day-to-day operations at Sun. Obviously Java development would be an exception. Only time I ever had PC support issues at Sun was with laptops trying to get DHCP addresses.
One problem is that "Eat Your Own Dog Food" is not very far away from "Not Invented Here"
How is this single product announcement newsworthy? It's not even a marginally new category of product. So hard up for material that Slashdot posts random product launch press releases now?
> At what point is this assertion libelous?
In a legal brief, nowhere. Christ, I wish American culture would get over this fucking legal fetish, it just enables these big giants to do the same.
> (hence the lack of Tux or BSDemon icons)
Just for reference, the BSD daemon's name is Chuck
> MP3 is a proprietary format. They buy the rights to the MP3 format, and charge any site that distributes MP3's a "license fee" similar to the one that Unisys tried to levy against websites that use GIF's
I'm sure the folks at Ogg Vorbis are getting a hard-on just THINKING about that possibility.
> Oh. I'm glad now that my new discman isn't a Sony.
That's okay, they get a cut from every single CD you put in it anyway. Loads more if it's by a Sony-owned label of course. I'd say nice try, but it didn't even sound like one.
They can get away with this crap as long as you keep buying CD's. They get a royalty off of every single one. Stealing it from Napster isn't the right answer either. Go see a local band. Live.
I think nCUBE might have a slight problem with the name.
Ten years time, you take a job. If you ever want to leave the company, you're going to need complete retraining in a different field. Anyone who takes a job in the same career ends up breaking NDAs. Pretty soon half the workforce is unemployable in any job they're trained for!
Thankfully, that sort of thing is unenforceable in California, and probably several other states too (but CA is still the 800lb gorilla of the tech industry). Basically, you cannot be kept from practicing your profession, so non-competes are birdcage liner there. NDA's can't keep you from working at another company, it's impossible to NDA your knowledge of C, or microelectronics, or project management.
> Are you aware of anyone who has had success with hot-desking?
Sun Microsystems is doing it as they move everyone there over to Sun Ray appliances, but they're not doing that repulsive "hotelling" concept so common in government offices. You *can* move your session around, but you still have your personal desk/cube/office space. It's great, I could illustrate a problem by duplicating it in my session, pulling out my card, and sticking it in the sunray of the other tech helping me.
Works nice, and it's not creating many more single failure points than a full NIS and NFS environment already does. Have to throw a whole lot of hardware into the servers and network of course, but it's still cheaper than the constant service of desktops.
> Digital/Tru64 unix remains the only commercial unix that is largely based on the BSD code.
:)
I'm guessing BSDi is also based on BSD too
> Baldur's Gate started the current flood of RPGs
Baloney. There were plenty of CRPG's being published immediately before BG, like the Might and Magic series, Fallout, Fallout 2 (Black Isle sure helped revive the genre, I'll give it that), Lands of Lore. BG just happened to sell well. BG is barely even a RPG (but boy howdy is its combat cooler than Diablo) since the main character basically has no identity, and the NPC's are wholly interchangeable and play no part whatsoever in the story.
> "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public." - Rupert Murdoch.
Actually, H.L. Mencken said it first.
> But when one distributes the modified forms, the source must still be distributed under the terms in section 3
Still not true. Read section 4b again. 3 exists so you don't need to redistribute the WHOLE package, 4 exists so that if you do elect to distribute a modified version, it MUST be the whole package. Simply asking Troll Tech or the KDE folks would make this clear too, but you would have no commerce with agents of Satan himself, I gather.
I'm getting tired of the selective reading skills employed by the anti-Qt crowd. The abomination that is moc should be reason enough.