OK, so we've established that it's not usual to call an object either by the name of one of its components or by a slash delimited list of some of (but not all of) it's components, as chosen by a looney with a beard. Are we any better off? Linux has the advantage of being four characters shorter and already in common use...
So GNU are responsible for what percentage of the code on my Gentoo machine? Taking into account the Linux kernel, X, KDE, Apache, PostgreSQL,...
They get the C Library, what else?
Well, there's a big pile of stuff in orbit that hasn't come down yet and there's a few tons of junk on the moon (or maybe it's all in some holywood backlot, if the the tin-foil hat brigade are to be believed...).
Still given the vast amount of planes, birds and other stuff that hasn't stayed up there, I guess it's a few nines worth of crashing success rate
-- jeek
it can only be deemed a failure if it *doesn't* crash?
-- jeek
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You might be right - on a second look the resemblance is less obvious. Still - we do seem to live in world where the content industry can take a generic image, trademark it and effectively remove it from the public domain and I wouldn't be suprised if Pixar (or Disney or whoever owns the rights to the Toy Story characters) doesn't have a tilt at them, just on the off chance...
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They're so gonna get sued by Pixar - half of their characters http://www.banghowdy.com/ are stright out of Toy Story 2...
I'm sick of coming across people who got into this industry without any interest or aptitude because they thought it was a gravy train and didn't like us geeks getting all the money...
I'd be happy to see a return to the glory days of unwashed pizza eating nerds
-- jeek
TurboPascal was something that transformed programming for me. Prior to that I'd mainly used IBM/Microsoft Basic and 8086 assembler. Suddenly having access to a fast compiler for a structured language, with good libraries and dirt cheap was a revelation.
It's easy to take it for granted these days with GCC etc. but at the time TurboPascal was unequalled
-- jeek
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OK, so we've established that it's not usual to call an object either by the name of one of its components or by a slash delimited list of some of (but not all of) it's components, as chosen by a looney with a beard. Are we any better off? Linux has the advantage of being four characters shorter and already in common use...
So GNU are responsible for what percentage of the code on my Gentoo machine? Taking into account the Linux kernel, X, KDE, Apache, PostgreSQL, ...
They get the C Library, what else?
It's a fair cop - I've some bookshelves and a bed. No Burburry though, honest.
It's not bloody GNU though is it? I mean my house has some Argos furniture in it but that doesn't make it a bloody Argos house, does it?
Well, there's a big pile of stuff in orbit that hasn't come down yet and there's a few tons of junk on the moon (or maybe it's all in some holywood backlot, if the the tin-foil hat brigade are to be believed...). Still given the vast amount of planes, birds and other stuff that hasn't stayed up there, I guess it's a few nines worth of crashing success rate -- jeek
it can only be deemed a failure if it *doesn't* crash? -- jeek
You might be right - on a second look the resemblance is less obvious. Still - we do seem to live in world where the content industry can take a generic image, trademark it and effectively remove it from the public domain and I wouldn't be suprised if Pixar (or Disney or whoever owns the rights to the Toy Story characters) doesn't have a tilt at them, just on the off chance... -- jeek
They're so gonna get sued by Pixar - half of their characters http://www.banghowdy.com/ are stright out of Toy Story 2...
Um... Er.. I only do J2EE?
I'm sick of coming across people who got into this industry without any interest or aptitude because they thought it was a gravy train and didn't like us geeks getting all the money... I'd be happy to see a return to the glory days of unwashed pizza eating nerds -- jeek
TurboPascal was something that transformed programming for me. Prior to that I'd mainly used IBM/Microsoft Basic and 8086 assembler. Suddenly having access to a fast compiler for a structured language, with good libraries and dirt cheap was a revelation. It's easy to take it for granted these days with GCC etc. but at the time TurboPascal was unequalled -- jeek