Story about new results elsewhere on the Web. Link? Heeeck no! Sheesh... Absolutely nothing has changed in twenty years. (For an example, google "Sandy Reed OS/2")
The smart people on occation[sic] whined about illogical orders
Yeah, yeah, mr Snotty-About-Minor-Errors.
Did you notice the bit about how being in the Army for a bit "used to be mandatory in [his] country", before you started spewing snotty "sic"s about?
That fact would tend to rule out him being from, les'see, the three or four largest (by population) anglophone countries that come to mind.
Which in turn makes it quite likely that he's not a native English speaker.
Given that we have no such tell-tale data about you, though, and that the absolute majority of Slashdotters are Yanks, it's quite likely that you, OTOH, are one.
So, how's YOUR, oh, let's say, Swedish?
Naah? Well, thought so.
My IQ pretty high yet I struggled [...]
What, with forming complete sentences?
Q.E.D, Snot-face. Now POAD. HTH!
Have you ever actually TALKED to anyone not from the USA?
You could use this here Internet thingy to do that, you know.
Actually, you're probably doing so all the time... Only perhaps you don't even realise it.
In fact, you're talking to someone not from the USA right now: I'm from... Oh, it's a long story; let's just say, I'm from (much of) Northern Europe.
And the GP was right: Over on this side of the Pond, we all think it's bloody hilarious -- or at least, would be hilarious, if it weren't also pretty scary[*] -- how superstitious (=religious) you Yanks are.
HTH!
[*]: The pervasiveness of religion in your society seems unique at least outside the Muslim world; which, ironically, would make the USA the closest thing the Western world has to the erstwhile Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
Funny, that's what you seem to do with OOP concepts -- one by one, as it is shown to you how they make programming better, you invent your own name for them, and declare them "Not OOP".
Again I don't understand why somebody who uses KDE is pissing on the GNOME developers. Why? Why not piss on the KDE developers instead?
Well apparently he was TRYING TO use GNOME in stead -- how the fuck else would he even have noticed the problem?
What's wrong with that; isn't he ALLOWED to try to use GNOME just because you have him pigeonholed as "somebody who uses KDE"?
(And next time you don't understand something, please first consider that the problem may be not with whatever it is you don't understand[*], but with your limited powers of understanding. HTH!)
...and you now know more than they do. Please tell them how to do it right.
In their defense, though: The "no one will ever pass more than 9 arguments" idiocy seems to be alive and well in Unix shells, too.
$cat silly_test.sh
#!/bin/ksh <==[Tested it with "sh" and "csh" too] echo $@
echo $0 $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13
$silly_test.sh A B C D E F G H J K L M N O
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O ./silly_test.sh A B C D E F G H J A0 A1 A2 A3
$
Come on, give them SOME credit -- even cmd.exe can't be so brain-dead as not to get THAT simple thing!
You, OTOH, apparenly are -- how the heck could you NOT figure out that it would be "%*"? (It's freaking obvious, the asterisk wildcard for "all of them". In comparison, the Unix shells' @ is pretty damn non-intuitive. "At?!? At where, and why???")
Some anonymous fuckwit seems to think that all browsers are Web browsers:
What this really comes down to is "Is anyone going to confuse a database with a web browser?" [...] the Bios company actually HAD a browser already, named Phoenix.
The product name isn't even going to be "Mozilla Web Browser", though -- it's apparently just "Mozilla Browser". And in the same way, if the DB folks hadn't protested, it would most probably have been the "Firebird Browser", not the "Firebird Web Browser".
But not all browsing is Web browsing -- some folks might, for instance, want to browse the data in their database. And for that they might want to use -- surprise, surprise! -- a database browser. In fact, I hear some people do that already... And guess what the database browser for the data in their Firebird database is called?
So, yes, it _I_S_ actually quite possible for a web browser with the same name to be rather confusing for users of a database that had that name first.
(And here's how you proved you were wrong: See how you yourself went from "a web browser?" to just "HAD a browser already" in the quote above.)
They have a trademark to the name. They claimed it as such. Regardless of whether the FirebirdSQL people agree to that or not. They have every right to actively claim the trademark.
No they don't.
Claiming they do is about as idiotic as if you claimed to, say, have "every right to actively claim" the trademark "Coca-Cola" for your new beer, or something. It just won't fly.
(And why does this stupid software insist on me saying something here, when I've already said everything I wanted to say up in the "Subject:" line?!? Malda, you're so LAAAAAME!)
Sooooo, to answer the question they can't call Firebird "Mozilla Browser" at the moment because it is different from the browser currently contained in the Mozilla suite and Firebird will not become the sole browser being developed by the folks over at mozilla.org for a little while now. Until the switch is made and the Mozilla suite is dismantled, two separate names are necessary.
Well, here are two separate codenames for you: "Mozilla Browser 1.4" and "Mozilla Browser 1.5".
There, all fixed... Now, why THE HELL couldn't those Mozilla people think of that for themselves?!? It's not as if version numbers are a totally new concept in this industry, is it?
...d; he found Iceland, but it was his son Leif Eriksson who found Greenland (and Newfoundland or Nova Scotia or something, which he called "Vinland" [='Wine-land']). There was an element of marketing in these names, sure: Make 'em sound nice so as to attract colonists, then you'll be the head honcho of a bigger colony...
But basically, they *were* founded on truth: As Nathan pointed out, Greenland really was green at the time; the Nordic settlements he mentions, founded in the eleventh century, only died out in the fourteenth or fifteenth, as the climate got worse. And in North America (where Leif and his crew spent a winter, and later returned and had a settlement going for a while; they only gave it up after getting embroiled in a war with native "skraelings" [='Indians']. The remains of that settlement were found a few years ago, IIRC), they found some plants that they took to be grapes.
Hey, you gotta forgive them that elementary botanical mistake (to the extent that it was one -- doesn't the grape have *some* relative that's native to North America?): Being from Norway and Iceland, they had probably never seen the real thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Story about new results elsewhere on the Web. Link? Heeeck no! Sheesh... Absolutely nothing has changed in twenty years. (For an example, google "Sandy Reed OS/2")
...is also a WW2 reference, namely to the country that actually beat the Nazis: the Rodina.
Not necessarily; maybe only between men. We don't know what Brendan gets up to with the missus.
"Re: Ruby", Yadda yadda.
(No, I didn't forget to write my comment. It's in the headline above.)
That replacement language has been invented already. It was created by Nicholaus Wirth, and its name is Pascal.
Hello, Ross!
quotes "I cant believe its n":
The smart people on occation[sic] whined about illogical orders
Yeah, yeah, mr Snotty-About-Minor-Errors. Did you notice the bit about how being in the Army for a bit "used to be mandatory in [his] country", before you started spewing snotty "sic"s about? That fact would tend to rule out him being from, les'see, the three or four largest (by population) anglophone countries that come to mind. Which in turn makes it quite likely that he's not a native English speaker. Given that we have no such tell-tale data about you, though, and that the absolute majority of Slashdotters are Yanks, it's quite likely that you, OTOH, are one. So, how's YOUR, oh, let's say, Swedish? Naah? Well, thought so.
My IQ pretty high yet I struggled [...]
What, with forming complete sentences? Q.E.D, Snot-face. Now POAD. HTH!
Have you ever actually TALKED to anyone not from the USA?
You could use this here Internet thingy to do that, you know.
Actually, you're probably doing so all the time... Only perhaps you don't even realise it.
In fact, you're talking to someone not from the USA right now: I'm from... Oh, it's a long story; let's just say, I'm from (much of) Northern Europe.
And the GP was right: Over on this side of the Pond, we all think it's bloody hilarious -- or at least, would be hilarious, if it weren't also pretty scary[*] -- how superstitious (=religious) you Yanks are.
HTH!
[*]: The pervasiveness of religion in your society seems unique at least outside the Muslim world; which, ironically, would make the USA the closest thing the Western world has to the erstwhile Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
Funny, that's what you seem to do with OOP concepts -- one by one, as it is shown to you how they make programming better, you invent your own name for them, and declare them "Not OOP".
Most sincere form of flattery, etc, and so on. :-)
...bottles, we play "Rawhide"!
What's wrong with that; isn't he ALLOWED to try to use GNOME just because you have him pigeonholed as "somebody who uses KDE"?
(And next time you don't understand something, please first consider that the problem may be not with whatever it is you don't understand[*], but with your limited powers of understanding. HTH!)
[*]: In this case, Linus trying to improve GNOME.
...the above comment wasn't by me.
No, really.
Feh! Subject says it all, already -- THIS software sucks extra-bad!
...and you now know more than they do. Please tell them how to do it right.
./silly_test.sh A B C D E F G H J A0 A1 A2 A3
In their defense, though: The "no one will ever pass more than 9 arguments" idiocy seems to be alive and well in Unix shells, too.
$cat silly_test.sh
#!/bin/ksh <==[Tested it with "sh" and "csh" too]
echo $@
echo $0 $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13
$silly_test.sh A B C D E F G H J K L M N O
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O
$
So... All software sucks, it seems.
Come on, give them SOME credit -- even cmd.exe can't be so brain-dead as not to get THAT simple thing!
You, OTOH, apparenly are -- how the heck could you NOT figure out that it would be "%*"? (It's freaking obvious, the asterisk wildcard for "all of them". In comparison, the Unix shells' @ is pretty damn non-intuitive. "At?!? At where, and why???")
No kenen muuten ne pit&isi olla?
Mina &sikter &r ocks& mina egna.
(This stupid input parser seems to be eating well-formed HTML Scandahoovian-letter-codes, BTW.)
But not all browsing is Web browsing -- some folks might, for instance, want to browse the data in their database. And for that they might want to use -- surprise, surprise! -- a database browser. In fact, I hear some people do that already... And guess what the database browser for the data in their Firebird database is called?
So, yes, it _I_S_ actually quite possible for a web browser with the same name to be rather confusing for users of a database that had that name first.
(And here's how you proved you were wrong: See how you yourself went from "a web browser?" to just "HAD a browser already" in the quote above.)
Claiming they do is about as idiotic as if you claimed to, say, have "every right to actively claim" the trademark "Coca-Cola" for your new beer, or something. It just won't fly.
(And why does this stupid software insist on me saying something here, when I've already said everything I wanted to say up in the "Subject:" line?!? Malda, you're so LAAAAAME!)
"nfg05" writes:
Well, here are two separate codenames for you: "Mozilla Browser 1.4" and "Mozilla Browser 1.5".There, all fixed... Now, why THE HELL couldn't those Mozilla people think of that for themselves?!? It's not as if version numbers are a totally new concept in this industry, is it?
...*intentionally* -- you don't think you and I are the only people ever to have read _Fallen Angels_, do you? :-)
:-(
Only I bought and paid for a copy on Dead Trees.
What do you mean, "I am what"?
How many questions did you ask, in the post I'm replying to?
Hmm... And here I thought the T-68 looked so nice.
Guess I'll have to stay with handsets from that gum-boot factory in the Eastern Half Of The Realm, then.
...d; he found Iceland, but it was his son Leif Eriksson who found Greenland (and Newfoundland or Nova Scotia or something, which he called "Vinland" [='Wine-land']). There was an element of marketing in these names, sure: Make 'em sound nice so as to attract colonists, then you'll be the head honcho of a bigger colony...
But basically, they *were* founded on truth: As Nathan pointed out, Greenland really was green at the time; the Nordic settlements he mentions, founded in the eleventh century, only died out in the fourteenth or fifteenth, as the climate got worse. And in North America (where Leif and his crew spent a winter, and later returned and had a settlement going for a while; they only gave it up after getting embroiled in a war with native "skraelings" [='Indians']. The remains of that settlement were found a few years ago, IIRC), they found some plants that they took to be grapes.
Hey, you gotta forgive them that elementary botanical mistake (to the extent that it was one -- doesn't the grape have *some* relative that's native to North America?): Being from Norway and Iceland, they had probably never seen the real thing.