Er, McCarthy didn't get away with his purges. He went after the Army, and the Army brought him crashing down, with his career and his life following shortly after.
It seems that the worst that will happen to Bush on the other hand is that he will be inconvenienced in getting his first choice of site for his presidential library.
Launchpad is a bug tracker, with some project management features. The bug tracker in Sourceforge is easily its worst feature, and it has zero project management facilities (at least not in the free version).
> After having used Object-Relational Mapping in Java for a little bit, I really think that it should be adopted more widely.
In Python, it already is. I'll be amazed if Storm is even nearly as good as SQLAlchemy. My guess is it's closer to SQLObject, and even SQLObject has had many years to shake out any issues it has. Unless Storm is radically different, it's just another Not Invented Here framework of dubious utility.
ORMs are all right, but I wish I could express relations more succinctly in the language itself. Right now I can't even get declarative constraints in most languages that ORMs are pitched for.
> iPhones feature set is comparable to a $200 device
A Nokia N800 is roughly $380, is bulkier, and it's not even a phone. A T-Mobile Wing is $300 with contract, as is a Blackberry Pearl (the iPhone is with contract too, so I guess I should use those prices). Still quite a premium on the iPhone, but if you're looking at a $200 device that's comparable, I really would like to see it.
All you have to do is live 2 years behind the upgrade curve and you can pick up your games on Steam for ten bucks a pop. It's not like games actually wear down when they're old.
Sorry... slashdot's getting to me again. For all the "funny" mods, it really drains my sense of humor. I think I'm going to do another one of my "bang keyboard randomly to change password" vacations again:-/
Gosh, repeating back what I say with the terms reversed, how original. Yes, you just learned that Java is not C++ and that through rigorous deduction from that fact, that C++ is not Java.
RAII is nice, but Java has try/finally and thus doesn't so much need RAII. It'd be nice if it had better syntax, but it works. Now go write "Java is not C++" a hundred times on the blackboard. No looping.
I hope that Valve QAs them instead of just letting ATI plop their newest steaming pile of Catalyst drivers on us with automatic updates. I usually let the new drivers shake out for a month or so before checking the boards to see what the latest disastrous bugs are with the latest version. They still can't manage to keep the "easy install" for Catalyst drivers from locking up if you have a TV Wonder card.
Fox News is willingly a right-wing partisan outlet because that's their target market. They're a very different animal than the rest of Fox's programming, which has the same goal (deliber entertainment to draw eyeballs to advertisers), but goes about it in a decidedly nonpartisan way. There's enough scary conspiracies out there without making nonsense up.
> What did it take to make them start producing "manufactured celebrities"?
The fact that they were wildly successful doing so. In fact, it's not entirely new and represents something of a return to the patronage system of protegees. The best at their art were not necessarily the most famous then either.
> I need a feature and bug request tracking system. trac supports Subversion immediately.
You can export a repository into svn with tailor, and there are patches to trac that support darcs and other SCM systems extremely well. Trac has been promising to support more systems generically for some time now, but it seems they're a bit slow on delivering. At least they ditched clearsilver.
> He trashed the Subversion system and people repeatedly for no good reason.
And this is why I dislike the man personally. He makes his opinions personal. If you ever worked on a microkernel, Linus thinks you commit academic fraud for grant money. I've never heard him moderate or apologize.
I'm sure he's great to his wife and kids, I'm an optimist that way. But frankly he's about as bad as Theo when it comes to his sense of developer politics.
Camcorders will be required to obey some kind of macrovision signal. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony already built something like that into their cameras.
When you find a way to record from your eyeball, go pick up your nobel prize. You'll find that our perception is a pretty lossy compression algorithm though.
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> Ask him how he feels a few hours later.
Pissed, probably.
(what's great is how that works in US *and* Brit speak)
Er, McCarthy didn't get away with his purges. He went after the Army, and the Army brought him crashing down, with his career and his life following shortly after.
It seems that the worst that will happen to Bush on the other hand is that he will be inconvenienced in getting his first choice of site for his presidential library.
The stick up your ass: will it blend?
Launchpad is a bug tracker, with some project management features. The bug tracker in Sourceforge is easily its worst feature, and it has zero project management facilities (at least not in the free version).
"Verbing weirds language." -- Calvin
> After having used Object-Relational Mapping in Java for a little bit, I really think that it should be adopted more widely.
In Python, it already is. I'll be amazed if Storm is even nearly as good as SQLAlchemy. My guess is it's closer to SQLObject, and even SQLObject has had many years to shake out any issues it has. Unless Storm is radically different, it's just another Not Invented Here framework of dubious utility.
ORMs are all right, but I wish I could express relations more succinctly in the language itself. Right now I can't even get declarative constraints in most languages that ORMs are pitched for.
> iPhones feature set is comparable to a $200 device
A Nokia N800 is roughly $380, is bulkier, and it's not even a phone. A T-Mobile Wing is $300 with contract, as is a Blackberry Pearl (the iPhone is with contract too, so I guess I should use those prices). Still quite a premium on the iPhone, but if you're looking at a $200 device that's comparable, I really would like to see it.
When PopCap ports their catalog to the Wii, I'm there. Actually I might want a port of Puzzle Pirates as well. I can't stand Nintendo's party games.
All you have to do is live 2 years behind the upgrade curve and you can pick up your games on Steam for ten bucks a pop. It's not like games actually wear down when they're old.
> "Done when it's done" only works if "it" is worth "doing".
And only if it actually does get done at some point. 3DRealms, ya listening?
> Can't say anything about PgSQL, because I couldn't figure out how to set that up.
.MSI installer?
apt-get install postgresql-server too hard for you? Or are you having trouble double-clicking on the
> Would I use it to handle a massively-multiplayer game
SOE does. Are they big enough?
How the fuck was this even remotely newsworthy? Shall I just take every announcement on nonags and pipe it here?
Sorry... slashdot's getting to me again. For all the "funny" mods, it really drains my sense of humor. I think I'm going to do another one of my "bang keyboard randomly to change password" vacations again :-/
Gosh, repeating back what I say with the terms reversed, how original. Yes, you just learned that Java is not C++ and that through rigorous deduction from that fact, that C++ is not Java.
> I saw v1 + v2, how would I know if it's adding the numerical vectors v1 and v2 or appending v2 to the end of v1 ?
You know it's "vee one plus vee two". Unless you're using some insane library like Spirit, you know it's doing addition on whatever v1 and v2 are.
Honestly, why do people constantly piss and moan that C++ isn't assembly?
RAII is nice, but Java has try/finally and thus doesn't so much need RAII. It'd be nice if it had better syntax, but it works. Now go write "Java is not C++" a hundred times on the blackboard. No looping.
I hope that Valve QAs them instead of just letting ATI plop their newest steaming pile of Catalyst drivers on us with automatic updates. I usually let the new drivers shake out for a month or so before checking the boards to see what the latest disastrous bugs are with the latest version. They still can't manage to keep the "easy install" for Catalyst drivers from locking up if you have a TV Wonder card.
Fox News is willingly a right-wing partisan outlet because that's their target market. They're a very different animal than the rest of Fox's programming, which has the same goal (deliber entertainment to draw eyeballs to advertisers), but goes about it in a decidedly nonpartisan way. There's enough scary conspiracies out there without making nonsense up.
> What did it take to make them start producing "manufactured celebrities"?
The fact that they were wildly successful doing so. In fact, it's not entirely new and represents something of a return to the patronage system of protegees. The best at their art were not necessarily the most famous then either.
> I need a feature and bug request tracking system. trac supports Subversion immediately.
You can export a repository into svn with tailor, and there are patches to trac that support darcs and other SCM systems extremely well. Trac has been promising to support more systems generically for some time now, but it seems they're a bit slow on delivering. At least they ditched clearsilver.
> He trashed the Subversion system and people repeatedly for no good reason.
And this is why I dislike the man personally. He makes his opinions personal. If you ever worked on a microkernel, Linus thinks you commit academic fraud for grant money. I've never heard him moderate or apologize.
I'm sure he's great to his wife and kids, I'm an optimist that way. But frankly he's about as bad as Theo when it comes to his sense of developer politics.
No, it's a pretty good implementation of a system that's broken by design. Cryptography is no good at keeping information from its intended recipient.
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Camcorders will be required to obey some kind of macrovision signal. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony already built something like that into their cameras.
When you find a way to record from your eyeball, go pick up your nobel prize. You'll find that our perception is a pretty lossy compression algorithm though.