If you do a little research, you'll find that the already-existing oil pipelines in arctic and subarctic regions have not had a deleterious effect upon the flora and fauna of a biome (except in the case of pipeline spills, and frankly you can't stop every spill. So I consider that a non-issue.
As for the soil being changed in a tiny, tiny strip of land to get to these drilling sites--well, sorry, but I don't think that that's something to lose sleep over.
Honestly, I don't consider the animals there to be a reason to lose sleep, either. As much as environmentalists would like to deny it, we are part of the environment, too, and we are at the top of the pyramid. If we can avoid destroying wildlife, great. If it's a choice between keeping our economy running while we switch to alternative energy (extra oil is a stopgap and everyone knows it), I'm entirely okay with running wildlife over. We're part of "survival of the fittest," too. Humans are more important than the red shitfish or the pink spotted heron. (That is immaterial in this situation, of course, because the proposed drilling, and even the necessary infrastructure to get there, is exceedingly minor.)
The caribou do not live in the areas where they want to drill; they're in the remote plains of ANWR, frozen nine months of the year and mud puddles the rest. Nothing nonmicrobial makes their habitat in the areas in which they want to drill.
Even if that weren't true: two thousand acres out of nineteen million--woo fucking hoo.
I don't want to stop oil drilling in Alaska because I'm afraid for the "cute widdle animals" but because that place is a paradise and I want to enjoy it for what it is. You do realize that the area they want opened for drilling (an area the size of Dulles International Airport, about 2000 acres, in an area covering over 19.5 million acres) are quite literally empty, right? Nine months of the year they're ice and three months of the year they're mud. Nothing non-microbial makes its habitat there. It's nothing paradisaical and talking about it as if it were does not make it true.
Well, I guess that's what one gets for distrusting the FSF. Not to troll, but why trust the FSF with the ability to relicense your code as you see fit? The relative value of the GPLv3 is, in this case, irrelevant to Linus's line of thinking.
And seriously--BitKeeper worked for Linus's needs. He's a pragmatist, not an idealist.
And during the day, their shows always have two opposing viewpoints. And neither are doormats, most of the time--Susan Estridge or other Democratic strategists are common left-wing guests, and half the time the Republican guests are complete no-names.
The channel sucks--come on, I don't need 24/7 Disaster Coverage From The Leading Name In News--but not because they're "unbalanced." At least no moreso than, say, MSNBC (hi, Keith Olbermann!).
It's Atari in name only. Infogrames renamed themselves Atari to try to "reinvent" after people wised up to the fact that everyone was used to mediocrity out of them.
I'm calling bullshit. Every e-commerce retailer I've ever gone to that sells outside the US has Israel listed. Every e-commerce retailer I've ever gone to don't have Palestine, which is not a country, on their list.
This is politically motivated; the blame lies primarily upon whatever retard working on RoR put Palestine in the list of countries, but the blame lies as well on the people who didn't proof it.
Those who ignore history aren't only doomed to repeat it, they'll end up looking like MS shills on slashdot.
Read what I wrote. Microsoft had disbanded the IE dev. team, saying that "people have no interest in tabbed browsing, etc., and that the future was in net-based apps, not browser-based ones." [netmag.co.uk]
(in fact, the Internet Explorer team was disbanded shortly after the release of IE6)
It only took a few secs to come up with a link, and there are plenty more where that came from, so stop with the "rewriting MS history" bullshit, please.
Of course they stopped with the IE team. That has absolutely nothing to do with.NET and rather to do with a lack of competition in the market at the time; Microsoft was stupid and rested on their laurels. But seeing as how a good half of.NET is geared towards web services and web applications (ASP.NET), that makes your assertion rather suspect at best.
Every move microsoft has made was to try to move people onto a different platform that they could control. And since Mono apps are binary-compatible with.NET 2.0, there's no lockin for me; Microsoft can't drop.NET 2.0 functionality anytime soon, and even should they do so Mono is BSD-licensed so I could trivially package it with any released applications.. (I have no use for the features in.NET 3.0 or 3.5, although most of the good ones are quickly getting into Mono.)
C#, and also.NET, were supposed to be the tools to do that, and get people away from java and web-based apps, neither of which have a platform lockin. Both attempts are miserable failures. Java now runs on over a billion devices, and.NET is a piece of crap, and will be replaced within the next 5 years by the "next great thing", while people will still be using java and browser-based apps. .NET is considerably better than Java in all worthwhile applications. Java is a piece of shit to actually work with. I've used both.NET and Java, and I'd rather use.NET any day of the week. Better IDE, better toolchain, more useful API, and the ability to easily bind to native code in the case where you need it.
You're free to do whatever you want, including working on.net or mono, but be prepared to make yet another shift within the next 5 years. If that's necessary, it's necessary. I'm not bothered by it--I use what's best for a given task at the moment.
In the meantime, people who are working with "the old standbys" c, c++, and (now) java, will just be increasing their experience level and ubiquitousness. Oh, please. A decent programmer will be able to get by in any language. "Experience" is not language-specific. I can switch over to Java easily, and do when I have to work one of my projects, a Java Server Pages site. If you're as experienced a programmer as you seem to be (and yes, that is a compliment), surely you know that as well as I do.
(And Java and C# are a lot closer than the Java tards want to admit, making switching between the two easy, though unpleasant; the biggest difference between the two languages is that Anders Hejlsberg actually put some thought into what a developer wants to do with a programming language--C# provides a number of facilities that make using the language pleasant, rather than a chore as in C++ or Java.
No, performance is NOT irrelevant. Unless, of course, the app you're writing is trivial. For the vast majority of applications, performance of decently-written managed code is good enough, and so in those cases it is as close to irrelevant as it gets (yes, a retard programmer can cause performance issues, but that's doable in any language). Would I try to write a full-3D-up-the-ass game in.NET or Java? Hell no.
While I don't condone his crimes, I will say (as someone who only recently finished his term in one of the state-run loony bins they call high schools) that there is precious little knowledge in the "studying" for anything high-school related.
I use a TRENDnet TU2-H2PC in my ThinkPad A22m. I put it in the top slot and I put a Linksys WPC54 in the bottom slot. The bottom of the TU2-H2PC and the top of the WPC54 fit snugly, but there's no stress on either card from touching (and I don't go removing them much, so that's not an issue).
I *do* unserstand the situation. Microsoft is in the habit of trying to introduce new standards that they can control. They tried this when they declared IE dead, and.NET to be the future. Of course, when devs refused to drop support for browser apps, Microsoft had to reconstitute the IE team. This is entirely untrue. "IE is dead"? What? What kind of manifestly untrue shit are you talking?.NET was put forth primarily as a replacement for writing applications with the Win32 API. Only later was Silverlight even thought of, and declaring IE to be "dead" doesn't make much sense given the existence of an entire API built as a presentation framework for a browser object.
Anti-Linux FUD is terrible and awful, but screaming FUD about Microsoft is okay by you, apparently.
We saw the same fiasco before that with java. Microsoft introduced an incompatible version, then, when they lost in court, introduced c# as a java competitor, rather than support existing standards. Microsoft came out with a better product than Sun did (J++ was arguably better in a lot of ways, and C#/.NET definitely beats Java all hollow.) The Java "standards" sucked then and continue to suck now.
Why support bad standards?
We see this sort of behaviour all the time, most recently with the OLPC, and also with MSOOXML vs ODF. Oh, please. The OLPC has bigger problems than OMG MICROSOFT TAINTING THE FREE SOFTWARE PURITY. And frankly, OOXML is a better standard than ODF, too. With OOXML, however, their methods for ramming it through ISO were not good, and I don't support the standard because of it--they didn't do any such thing with.NET, and so I use it.
The performance of managed code sucks - and it always will. Performance is irrelevant in most situations these days. You don't need bleeding fucking edge C/C++ performance for a business-logic app.
Use what works best for the job. C/C++ has a place..NET/Mono has a place. Java has a place too (with the FOSStards who bitchfit about Microsoft being evil). I work on Mono to improve the tools that work best for me in order to have a more comfortable working environment.
I don't tell you not to use your tools of choice or that the developers of your tools of choice should be fired for running a project that--gasp!--you don't believe in. Or do Miguel de Icaza, Novell, and I not have the freedom to work on projects we think are valuable? (The code is free, but not the developers!)
As for the CLR, why? I have neither need nor desire for "managed code." Good for you. I do, and Mono is an excellent tool for what I want to do. Quit complaining about "trojans" just because you don't understand the situation very well.
If I wanted that, I could use java - at least it's mature, open-source, and has good support on my platform of choice. Java is more mature. Both are open source. Both have good support on Linux and Windows.
But Java is an irritating language to use and has poor native-code bindings in many cases. C# is a pleasant language to use and has good, portable interfaces to native code (giving many benefits of native code with other benefits of managed code).
Well, the Linux NFS is so sucky from what I have read), that Samba is quite useful. Java is so sucky (from what I have worked with), that Mono is quite useful.
I'm a KDE 3.5 user. I don't have any faith that Seigo and the rest of the KDE devs, who have apparently gone entirely incompetent between KDE3 and KDE4, will pull off anything useful.
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use Mono today and tomorrow there will be more reasons to move to Windows. Oh, hell yeah. Because GTK# and QT# work great on Windows, right?
Get a clue before you start whining about OMG TEH MICROSOFTS. I understand that you have a retarded knee-jerk hatred of Microsoft. Carrying that over to Novell (who, might I add, went to bat against SCO--or have you already forgotten that?) because they support Mono, a tool for interoperability that doesn't suck nearly as much as Java, is amazingly retarded.
Novell's business is making systems talk to each other. They don't really care if those systems are closed-source, because people still use them.
You could just as easily look at it the other way: use Mono and there are fewer reasons to have Windows around, because the majority of.NET apps run under Mono.
I don't understand why Mono is TEH EVIL but WINE and Samba are OK. It makes no fucking sense. Is it because people like Miguel--gasp!--don't view Microsoft as enemies? Because they--GASP!--are willing to work with other people, regardless of what you as a FOSStard think?
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If you do a little research, you'll find that the already-existing oil pipelines in arctic and subarctic regions have not had a deleterious effect upon the flora and fauna of a biome (except in the case of pipeline spills, and frankly you can't stop every spill. So I consider that a non-issue.
As for the soil being changed in a tiny, tiny strip of land to get to these drilling sites--well, sorry, but I don't think that that's something to lose sleep over.
Honestly, I don't consider the animals there to be a reason to lose sleep, either. As much as environmentalists would like to deny it, we are part of the environment, too, and we are at the top of the pyramid. If we can avoid destroying wildlife, great. If it's a choice between keeping our economy running while we switch to alternative energy (extra oil is a stopgap and everyone knows it), I'm entirely okay with running wildlife over. We're part of "survival of the fittest," too. Humans are more important than the red shitfish or the pink spotted heron. (That is immaterial in this situation, of course, because the proposed drilling, and even the necessary infrastructure to get there, is exceedingly minor.)
The caribou do not live in the areas where they want to drill; they're in the remote plains of ANWR, frozen nine months of the year and mud puddles the rest. Nothing nonmicrobial makes their habitat in the areas in which they want to drill.
Even if that weren't true: two thousand acres out of nineteen million--woo fucking hoo.
A buddy of mine makes his own sausage and bacon. That alone saves a boatload of money even if he isn't raising the pigs himself.
The funny thing is that the areas in which they want to drill are barren icy waste. But we can't drill there, we'll hurt some microbes. O NOES!
Fast User Switching doesn't pause sessions. Applications still run. Swapping them out solves nothing.
Shut up, twitter.
And seriously--BitKeeper worked for Linus's needs. He's a pragmatist, not an idealist.
Oh god. HOW?! I've been looking, but I can't find anything to do that.
And during the day, their shows always have two opposing viewpoints. And neither are doormats, most of the time--Susan Estridge or other Democratic strategists are common left-wing guests, and half the time the Republican guests are complete no-names.
The channel sucks--come on, I don't need 24/7 Disaster Coverage From The Leading Name In News--but not because they're "unbalanced." At least no moreso than, say, MSNBC (hi, Keith Olbermann!).
His mod is incredibly well done. It's the only single-player mod I've ever played through twice.
It's Atari in name only. Infogrames renamed themselves Atari to try to "reinvent" after people wised up to the fact that everyone was used to mediocrity out of them.
I'm calling bullshit. Every e-commerce retailer I've ever gone to that sells outside the US has Israel listed. Every e-commerce retailer I've ever gone to don't have Palestine, which is not a country, on their list.
This is politically motivated; the blame lies primarily upon whatever retard working on RoR put Palestine in the list of countries, but the blame lies as well on the people who didn't proof it.
Is it a mistake?
I doubt it was a mistake on the part of the developer. The consumer, yes--but not the developer.
Their stance is reasonable.
Read what I wrote. Microsoft had disbanded the IE dev. team, saying that "people have no interest in tabbed browsing, etc., and that the future was in net-based apps, not browser-based ones." [netmag.co.uk]
(in fact, the Internet Explorer team was disbanded shortly after the release of IE6)
It only took a few secs to come up with a link, and there are plenty more where that came from, so stop with the "rewriting MS history" bullshit, please.
Of course they stopped with the IE team. That has absolutely nothing to do with(And Java and C# are a lot closer than the Java tards want to admit, making switching between the two easy, though unpleasant; the biggest difference between the two languages is that Anders Hejlsberg actually put some thought into what a developer wants to do with a programming language--C# provides a number of facilities that make using the language pleasant, rather than a chore as in C++ or Java.
No, performance is NOT irrelevant. Unless, of course, the app you're writing is trivial. For the vast majority of applications, performance of decently-written managed code is good enough, and so in those cases it is as close to irrelevant as it gets (yes, a retard programmer can cause performance issues, but that's doable in any language). Would I try to write a full-3D-up-the-ass game inHe sounds like a kid. Probably confusing a special NetWare login form that replaces the standard XP one for the server being NetWare.
While I don't condone his crimes, I will say (as someone who only recently finished his term in one of the state-run loony bins they call high schools) that there is precious little knowledge in the "studying" for anything high-school related.
I use a TRENDnet TU2-H2PC in my ThinkPad A22m. I put it in the top slot and I put a Linksys WPC54 in the bottom slot. The bottom of the TU2-H2PC and the top of the WPC54 fit snugly, but there's no stress on either card from touching (and I don't go removing them much, so that's not an issue).
Anti-Linux FUD is terrible and awful, but screaming FUD about Microsoft is okay by you, apparently. We saw the same fiasco before that with java. Microsoft introduced an incompatible version, then, when they lost in court, introduced c# as a java competitor, rather than support existing standards. Microsoft came out with a better product than Sun did (J++ was arguably better in a lot of ways, and C#/.NET definitely beats Java all hollow.) The Java "standards" sucked then and continue to suck now.
Why support bad standards? We see this sort of behaviour all the time, most recently with the OLPC, and also with MSOOXML vs ODF. Oh, please. The OLPC has bigger problems than OMG MICROSOFT TAINTING THE FREE SOFTWARE PURITY. And frankly, OOXML is a better standard than ODF, too. With OOXML, however, their methods for ramming it through ISO were not good, and I don't support the standard because of it--they didn't do any such thing with
Use what works best for the job. C/C++ has a place.
I don't tell you not to use your tools of choice or that the developers of your tools of choice should be fired for running a project that--gasp!--you don't believe in. Or do Miguel de Icaza, Novell, and I not have the freedom to work on projects we think are valuable? (The code is free, but not the developers!)
So sit down and shut the fuck up.
You can often buy a USB2.0 card for semi-modern laptop. That T21 has CardBus, doesn't it?
Most modern Thinkpads have both a trackpoint and touchpad, at least among the home-user models.
But Java is an irritating language to use and has poor native-code bindings in many cases. C# is a pleasant language to use and has good, portable interfaces to native code (giving many benefits of native code with other benefits of managed code).
I'm a KDE 3.5 user. I don't have any faith that Seigo and the rest of the KDE devs, who have apparently gone entirely incompetent between KDE3 and KDE4, will pull off anything useful.
Get a clue before you start whining about OMG TEH MICROSOFTS. I understand that you have a retarded knee-jerk hatred of Microsoft. Carrying that over to Novell (who, might I add, went to bat against SCO--or have you already forgotten that?) because they support Mono, a tool for interoperability that doesn't suck nearly as much as Java, is amazingly retarded.
Novell's business is making systems talk to each other. They don't really care if those systems are closed-source, because people still use them.
You could just as easily look at it the other way: use Mono and there are fewer reasons to have Windows around, because the majority of
I don't understand why Mono is TEH EVIL but WINE and Samba are OK. It makes no fucking sense. Is it because people like Miguel--gasp!--don't view Microsoft as enemies? Because they--GASP!--are willing to work with other people, regardless of what you as a FOSStard think?