There are just a couple of IDE's that are considered best of breed, and most other ide's have a niche capability that eventually get built into one or the other.
The real issue is that open source does not innovate, it copies. There is no financial incentive for a developer to spend countless hours on a new niche capability when there is no reward at the end.
Socialist/marxist utopian dreams aside, the reality is there is no reward that puts food on the table, or pays off a student loan.
So innovation suffers.
For example, Intellisense that Microsoft introduced in 1996, was a real innovation. All others are just copies. Someone was paid (handsomely) to produce intellisense.
Its great to focus your thoughts early. Its great to document those abstractions at the end, but trying to have the model keep up with the code as it is being developed for real is a complete waste of everyone's time.
My brother (unfortunately) purchased a G4 laptop 3 weeks before they released the Macbook pro, so I was in no hurry to by the Mini until they released it with the new chip.
I was expecting the same low price with a better processor.....like everything else tech.
Then I see the actual price....and it costs far more than the original and for what? A new chip? A puny hard drive? Not alot of memory? No DVD writer?
When someone leaked Valerie Plame's name the libs said that was the worst damage done to national security since the beginning of time....despite the fact that she was riding a desk at the CIA for 5 years.
Scooter Libby is called a 'leaker' and is to be led away in chains.
We have tools that allow us to find the bad guys among us. We have not had a major incident since 9/11/2001. Now, we tap into the phone of the guy who was planning to blow up the Brooklyn bridge. The bad guys don't know we can do this.
A moonbat liberal lets that story out, gives aid and comfort to the enemy and lets loose with a majoe revelation about our technical capabilities.
He is called a 'whisteleblower'. He is a national hero among moonbats.
Moonbat Libs crack me up. You act as if 9/11 did not happen.
I would ask you to look at these pictures and ask the family members of these unfortunate souls what they think about the NSA wiretapping.
All you liberal whiners are gpoing to complain about the transfer of jobs, then go back to giving your intellectual property away by coding Open Source projects for free.
If you code for free, what difference does it make where you live?
It never ceases to amaze me, how liberals are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
The PTC is exercising THEIR right to free speech. They are finding THEIR voice.
But since it disagrees with yours, they are now trying to 'censor'.
I hope you guys continue this crap for another 4 years...because then we in the Republican majority,yes MAJORITY, will then have SUPER MAJORITY's, in the House,the Senate,another 8 years in the White House and another 800 judges appointed to various positions of power.
Keep it coming. You are digging your own grave. Maybe you could get Michael Moore to make another movie? The first one was soooooo helpful.
if an open source programmer toils day and night "for fun", is it fair that someone takes all that work and sells it as if it were his own...like any Linux distro?
Open source is great for people out of work, or screwing around. It sucks if you have 3 kids and a wife, and need insurance, and all the other perks a job offers.
Whine all you want about it, but precious few people make money from open source, and I don't see those folks sharing all that much.
This has to be the dumbest idea I ahve heard on/. in almost 72 hours, and there were many to pick from.
People want to be productive/efficient, even govt employees. Using open source software from a variety of vendors gets you as far away from that goal as you can get. Forcing the gov't to, on opurpose, make people inefficient is a huge waste of tax dollars.
People choose to MS Office because it is superior to any, and I mean any, other comparable software on the market.
For the last couple of days I have been getting mail from hemos (I am in his address book) that indicates he has been victimized by the latest Outlook virus...which begs the question...why is Hemos running Windows and reading his mail in Outlook? Here is the latest junk I received from Hemos.....Yahoo indicates that the message is 201K big. He's not using Evolution why should we?
W32.Elkern is a dangerous virus that can infect on Win98/Me/2000/XP. Mcafee give you the W32.Elkern removal tools
For more information,please visit http://www.Mcafee.com
I write MS code for a living, and while you guys slave away at free code I make a significant amount of money because people to PAY me to write mine.
So I hope all of you guys, who are likely smarter than me, continue to write free code for the betterment of society....or whatever...while the rest of us make money doing the exact same thing.
Do you honestly think that for really interesting games any virtual machine layer will not add so much overhead as to make the game unplayable? Sorta like Java Swing adds overhead to simple Windows apps...so you can get to see various Windows being repainted?
Most people do not like watching Windows repaint.
No offense to Sun...but the folks who are cutting edge on gaming will always write down to as specific as they can get to get as much performance as they can.
Besides....doesn't it seem odd that Id Software has ALREDAY made it possible to play their games on any number of platforms...all by strictly coding in C.
But Id Software doen't make java, or workstations. They just make great games.
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There are just a couple of IDE's that are considered best of breed, and most other ide's have a niche capability that eventually get built into one or the other.
The real issue is that open source does not innovate, it copies. There is no financial incentive for a developer to spend countless hours on a new niche capability when there is no reward at the end.
Socialist/marxist utopian dreams aside, the reality is there is no reward that puts food on the table, or pays off a student loan.
So innovation suffers.
For example, Intellisense that Microsoft introduced in 1996, was a real innovation. All others are just copies. Someone was paid (handsomely) to produce intellisense.
...but not in the middle.
Its great to focus your thoughts early. Its great to document those abstractions at the end, but trying to have the model keep up with the code as it is being developed for real is a complete waste of everyone's time.
...and the guy said it was one of a kind.
damn
none of this stuff was censored....half of these stories were spouted by Rosie on "the View"....which says ALOT.
It always amazes me that the same folks who so willingly give away source code are the ones who complain that their jobs are going overseas.
If you code for free....it really doesn't matter what the overseas programmers/engineers are getting DOES IT.
If it were not for the work of that generation, and the creativity they displayed, our world would be a far different place.
Poke fun at Fortran all you want, but dammit I use code today to drive a statistical website that was written in the 60's, and it still runs great.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nde
Open source is a pyramid scheme.
If you slog away for free working on Firefox....you are an idiot.
You deserve to get compensation for your time and effort.
All you dreamy eyed college kids working for the 'community'....you are being had. When your college loans come due you will know what I mean.
I was eagerly waiting for the new Mac Mini.
I WANTED a Mac Mini.
My brother (unfortunately) purchased a G4 laptop 3 weeks before they released the Macbook pro, so I was in no hurry to by the Mini until they released it with the new chip.
I was expecting the same low price with a better processor.....like everything else tech.
Then I see the actual price....and it costs far more than the original and for what? A new chip? A puny hard drive? Not alot of memory? No DVD writer?
Apple......you can stick it.
When someone leaked Valerie Plame's name the libs said that was the worst damage done to national security since the beginning of time....despite the fact that she was riding a desk at the CIA for 5 years.
Scooter Libby is called a 'leaker' and is to be led away in chains.
We have tools that allow us to find the bad guys among us. We have not had a major incident since 9/11/2001. Now, we tap into the phone of the guy who was planning to blow up the Brooklyn bridge. The bad guys don't know we can do this.
A moonbat liberal lets that story out, gives aid and comfort to the enemy and lets loose with a majoe revelation about our technical capabilities.
He is called a 'whisteleblower'. He is a national hero among moonbats.
Moonbat Libs crack me up. You act as if 9/11 did not happen.
I would ask you to look at these pictures and ask the family members of these unfortunate souls what they think about the NSA wiretapping.
http://www.rangerjarhead.com/911jumpers
Thank God for George Bush.
Free as in dumb that is.
All you liberal whiners are gpoing to complain about the transfer of jobs, then go back to giving your intellectual property away by coding Open Source projects for free.
If you code for free, what difference does it make where you live?
Open Source is Free, Free as in Dumb
It never ceases to amaze me, how liberals are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
,yes MAJORITY, will then have SUPER MAJORITY's, in the House,the Senate,another 8 years in the White House and another 800 judges appointed to various positions of power.
The PTC is exercising THEIR right to free speech. They are finding THEIR voice.
But since it disagrees with yours, they are now trying to 'censor'.
I hope you guys continue this crap for another 4 years...because then we in the Republican majority
Keep it coming. You are digging your own grave. Maybe you could get Michael Moore to make another movie? The first one was soooooo helpful.
Looking at all the liberal rants here reminds me of that age old question.....
'Is the glass half full or half empty?'
Except in this case the glass is 95% full, but liberals are focused like a laser beam on the 5% thats empty!
Whats more liberals are hoping beyond hope, that someone,anyone, will tip over the glass!
Bush in 04!!!
...which necessarily means that is bad for liberals in general, and democrats and greens in particular!
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I love looking at all of the whining liberal rants by uninformed adult wannabees here at
It really is fun.
I cant wait to see Dean blow a gasket tomorrow!
Perhaps they should go to the gov't with their hands out.
Isn't it funny that nobody will pay to hear liberal garbage?
Sure we have to get it through ABC/CBS/NBC, but that is, for all intensive purposes, free.
Liberalism is dying a fairly rapid death. Nobody takes it seriously anymore when they look for solutions.
Liberalism enslaves.
...as if anyone will miss it.
Liberalism enslaves.
.....its just that everyone is out to get them.
look at what MS has done over the past 5 years with database access libraries.
We have had ODBC, Jet (various versions), SqlLib, RDO (various versions), ADO (many many versions). ODBCDirect, and now ADO.NET.
All do the same thing...Open the database, Get The data, close the database, and move on.
It is ridiculous.
if an open source programmer toils day and night "for fun", is it fair that someone takes all that work and sells it as if it were his own...like any Linux distro?
Open source is great for people out of work, or screwing around. It sucks if you have 3 kids and a wife, and need insurance, and all the other perks a job offers.
Whine all you want about it, but precious few people make money from open source, and I don't see those folks sharing all that much.
This has to be the dumbest idea I ahve heard on /. in almost 72 hours, and there were many to pick from.
People want to be productive/efficient, even govt employees. Using open source software from a variety of vendors gets you as far away from that goal as you can get. Forcing the gov't to, on opurpose, make people inefficient is a huge waste of tax dollars.
People choose to MS Office because it is superior to any, and I mean any, other comparable software on the market.
Ralph Nader is unsafe at any speed.
For the last couple of days I have been getting mail from hemos (I am in his address book) that indicates he has been victimized by the latest Outlook virus...which begs the question...why is Hemos running Windows and reading his mail in Outlook? Here is the latest junk I received from Hemos.....Yahoo indicates that the message is 201K big. He's not using Evolution why should we?
W32.Elkern is a dangerous virus that can infect on Win98/Me/2000/XP.
Mcafee give you the W32.Elkern removal tools
For more information,please visit http://www.Mcafee.com
Would You Trust a Source Named Anarchy?
Enough said.
Its Not Challenged Because Nobody Uses It for commercially viable products...that is where real money is involved.
I am the eternal /. antagonist.
I write MS code for a living, and while you guys slave away at free code I make a significant amount of money because people to PAY me to write mine.
So I hope all of you guys, who are likely smarter than me, continue to write free code for the betterment of society....or whatever...while the rest of us make money doing the exact same thing.
enough said.
Really......
Do you honestly think that for really interesting games any virtual machine layer will not add so much overhead as to make the game unplayable? Sorta like Java Swing adds overhead to simple Windows apps...so you can get to see various Windows being repainted?
Most people do not like watching Windows repaint.
No offense to Sun...but the folks who are cutting edge on gaming will always write down to as specific as they can get to get as much performance as they can.
Besides....doesn't it seem odd that Id Software
has ALREDAY made it possible to play their games on any number of platforms...all by strictly coding in C.
But Id Software doen't make java, or workstations. They just make great games.