And Bush was not a dictator, no matter what people want to say now. He had a willing Congress (both parties) and enough electoral support to be re-elected.
It shouldn't be a Rep/Dem issue, but apparently it is for most people. (Me, I'm a centrist.)
System.Windows.Forms works fine under Mono on both Linux and OS X. Has for quite some time.
WPF does not, but WPF sucks.
And the standard is an ECMA standard, if they have enough support it can be put in the spec. (Or just release the libraries that they need and have the installer drop it in the GAC.)
May 2008 was when Adobe relicensed it to permit development of viewers.
The big parts not in that spec are Spark (the video codec, which I don't think Adobe CAN open up, I'm not sure it's all theirs) and RTMP. Now it's just Spark.
So how exactly do you plan to run that open-source software without hardware manufacturers? (Don't be stupid and say "open hardware", economies of scale and the cost of fabrication make that really fucking dumb.)
You do realize that there are military prisons in the United States, right?
Bring them to the States and then there's absolutely no defense for not giving them a trial. They shouldn't be released out-of-hand; every one of them should be investigated and, if there's evidence, tried. Only if there's no evidence or the verdict is "not guilty" should they be released.
Calling him a cretinous imbecile is not an ad hominem. Saying that he shouldn't be listened to because he's a cretinous imbecile would be an ad hominem.
C# is my language of choice, to be fair, but with Silverlight you can write code in Python or Ruby or Scheme or C# or VB.NET or even OCaml. Or...you know...JavaScript. If you really wanted to.
AS3 is okay, but it just feels clumsy in comparison to most of the other languages I just listed. I personally hope Silverlight takes over solely so I don't have to write ActionScript again. (That, and one platform for everything I do would be nice. Desktop to web server to rich content, all on.NET? Since the OSS world isn't going to do that any time soon--yes please!)
Since cowardice exists on all levels, they are also telling their soldiers that they are really invincible
[citation needed]
You won't have a citation, of course, because it's entirely fucking untrue. (I know that for a fact; I have four relatives in the armed services right now and nobody is fed the kind of bullshit that you're alleging.) Where the fuck are you getting this shit? Come on. Cite some fucking sources or retract your lies.
Silverlight is much easier to develop in then Flash as an added bonus.
That's a matter of opinion if I ever saw one.
Have you developed in both? I have. I think you'd be kind of hard-pressed to rationalize why Flash, with very limited libraries and all the fun parts (read: annoying parts) of ECMAScript, is superior to the broad-base libraries and relatively clean languages of.NET.
I honestly can't fault Microsoft for not open-licensing their patents. They do that, they lose their own weapons in what is basically a corporate cold war of patents.
Either everyone is going to open-license their patents, or nobody will.
From the tone of your post, it suggests that you think that Russian involvement in post-war Japan would have been in any way, shape, or form a good thing.
You really are incapable of being consistent, aren't you?
So Americans are bad because they don't start fights they can't win, but are for some reason are worth sneering at because they don't allow "fair fights"...
Something tells me you're just another sad little fuckmouth, desperate to rage at anybody to give yourself some scrape of self-respect.
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I don't think anything they've contributed with this even falls into their sphere of patents.
Bush didn't hang him. He had his day in court.
And Bush was not a dictator, no matter what people want to say now. He had a willing Congress (both parties) and enough electoral support to be re-elected.
It shouldn't be a Rep/Dem issue, but apparently it is for most people. (Me, I'm a centrist.)
You're also probably not 21. :P
System.Windows.Forms works fine under Mono on both Linux and OS X. Has for quite some time.
WPF does not, but WPF sucks.
And the standard is an ECMA standard, if they have enough support it can be put in the spec. (Or just release the libraries that they need and have the installer drop it in the GAC.)
May 2008 was when Adobe relicensed it to permit development of viewers.
The big parts not in that spec are Spark (the video codec, which I don't think Adobe CAN open up, I'm not sure it's all theirs) and RTMP. Now it's just Spark.
The AC original poster is a moron.
So how exactly do you plan to run that open-source software without hardware manufacturers? (Don't be stupid and say "open hardware", economies of scale and the cost of fabrication make that really fucking dumb.)
You do realize that there are military prisons in the United States, right?
Bring them to the States and then there's absolutely no defense for not giving them a trial. They shouldn't be released out-of-hand; every one of them should be investigated and, if there's evidence, tried. Only if there's no evidence or the verdict is "not guilty" should they be released.
Calling him a cretinous imbecile is not an ad hominem. Saying that he shouldn't be listened to because he's a cretinous imbecile would be an ad hominem.
Same here. Six digit UID (although I had an ID in the mid 200,000's at one point), but I've been on the net since 1993.
Wanting Bush and his administration hung for treason is a completely neutral and unbiased position.
Um, no, it's not (and I say it as somebody who would have no problem whatsoever with it).
Recognize your biases, sir.
I didn't say it wasn't capable, but it's...ech.
C# is my language of choice, to be fair, but with Silverlight you can write code in Python or Ruby or Scheme or C# or VB.NET or even OCaml. Or...you know...JavaScript. If you really wanted to.
AS3 is okay, but it just feels clumsy in comparison to most of the other languages I just listed. I personally hope Silverlight takes over solely so I don't have to write ActionScript again. (That, and one platform for everything I do would be nice. Desktop to web server to rich content, all on .NET? Since the OSS world isn't going to do that any time soon--yes please!)
AFAIK, IBM has not opened their patent licenses any further than necessary to conform to the GPL. I may be wrong, though.
And you say that Americans lie to themselves? Pot. Kettle. Black as night.
Oh, forgot this gem:
Since cowardice exists on all levels, they are also telling their soldiers that they are really invincible
[citation needed]
You won't have a citation, of course, because it's entirely fucking untrue. (I know that for a fact; I have four relatives in the armed services right now and nobody is fed the kind of bullshit that you're alleging.) Where the fuck are you getting this shit? Come on. Cite some fucking sources or retract your lies.
American military can't accept the fact that there are always casualties on their side.
[citation needed], because I come from a military family and that's simply un-fucking-true.
They are stubbornly trying to invent a way to eliminate danger when killing people,
Wrong. They are inventing ways to reduce danger.
constantly failing to achieve that because it's unrealistic,
You're the only person saying that they're trying to "eliminate" danger. They're achieving what they set out to do just fine.
and spending untold amounts of money and resources that otherwise would solve all their social problems.
Yes, because dumping more money at social problems makes them go away. We haven't already tried that or anything.
Because vindictiveness is really good business.
Idiot.
That's a matter of opinion if I ever saw one.
Have you developed in both? I have. I think you'd be kind of hard-pressed to rationalize why Flash, with very limited libraries and all the fun parts (read: annoying parts) of ECMAScript, is superior to the broad-base libraries and relatively clean languages of .NET.
Silverlight could've been cool -- but they built it on .NET, which means it's going to be hard for a lot of people to trust.
Because those people are not very bright.
And they still haven't got those right.
Have you used Silverlight 2.0? Because I'll tell you, writing code in .NET beats the pants off ActionScript any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Why not take all of the Silverlight developers, and have them work on maybe finally getting CSS right in IE?
Fred Brooks something something Man-Month...
Except that it's already been done, to an extent -- Gecko can be embedded in Wine, and used as a browser activex control.
Gecko as an actual OCX, however, seems to have fallen by the wayside.
I know that somebody related to Mono (shana, I think?) is working on a .NET-compatible wrapper for Gecko, but I don't know how far along she is.
I honestly can't fault Microsoft for not open-licensing their patents. They do that, they lose their own weapons in what is basically a corporate cold war of patents.
Either everyone is going to open-license their patents, or nobody will.
How about the Ukraine, you stupid fuck?
At which point the Cold War that everyone knew was going to happen would be tilted in the favor of the Warsaw Pact.
I can't think of anyone who would honestly say that that would have been a better outcome for the world.
From the tone of your post, it suggests that you think that Russian involvement in post-war Japan would have been in any way, shape, or form a good thing.
That amuses me, if that is indeed your position.
Your statement is one hundred percent irrelevant to addressing his point. You are intellectually dishonest.
You really are incapable of being consistent, aren't you?
So Americans are bad because they don't start fights they can't win, but are for some reason are worth sneering at because they don't allow "fair fights"...
Something tells me you're just another sad little fuckmouth, desperate to rage at anybody to give yourself some scrape of self-respect.