Posts by bombastic bob

Re: Stop moaning

or, fork it under a compatible license (suggested earlier as "tell him to fork off") without the ads

Re: Threat

good one!

Re: Maybe the expectation of making money off JavaScript should be adjusted?

merely blocking script from the ads and those monolithic CDN "libraries" would be a good start.. a utility that successfully does THAT through a constantly maintained BLACKLIST might be worth a subscription.

Re: Welcome to the 90s

or in the case of that (no doubt unnecessary) "standard" javascript thing [is there NOT already ENOUGH JavaScript POLLUTION out there already already?] a way to monetize something WE CAN DO WITHOUT.

OK admit NOT having seen it, but 2 words "javascrit" and the name "standard" tells me that it's probably some B.S. "captain obvious wrote it" TRIVIAL module that can be completely OBLITERATED without causing damage to the open source world... (am I right?)

This is what happens when the SHEEPLE become complacent about OPERATING SYSTEMS SERVING UP ADVERTISEMENTS (you know, like Win-10-nic and all of that adware on phones). Next stop, the TV screen like you see in Idiocracy, which is like a 50" screen but only about 25" is actual content - ADS ALL AROUND with moving pictures and "click me" flashing etc. to the point where you just put the blinders on and ignore it all anyway.

From the article: many people who maintain open source projects have complained that companies and individuals take advantage of their labor and profit from it without giving something back

Open source has SEVERAL benefits to the author, some not so obvious:

a) proof of work/ability - people can see how you code, how you engineer things

b) public project management - if you manage one, your management abilities are on display

c) indirect payment - if you write open source, and you use open source, assume that your efforts of making open source are "paying" for the open source stuff you use already. You're "contributing".

that aside from just making something useful avaiilble for others. I've been trying to put trivial utilities online for others to use as sample code, even. At some point someone may find them useful, even if it's just sample code. And if I'm not doing anything special with those utilities, might as well put them on github or wherever and say "here are some useful things, use however you want".

But injecting ads in a COMMAND LINE UTILITY? That is WORSE than NAGWARE!!!

A big fat FAIL to the author who DARED to inject ads into a command line utility! SHAME! (and I bet your not-so-important library is just TRIVIAL CAPTAIN OBVIOUS stuff... without me even looking at it!)

Re: Why exactly is Perl any worse than Python? : About efficiency.

"C is efficient as far as the machine is concerned. As far as the developer's time, though?"

most of th3e time I can crank out C code faster than Python or Perl. I am admittedly not that good at Perl.

For those things that can be done with a shell script, though, I normally do "that". And I've been known to write my own quicky utilities for that shell script to invoke, for special case things that aren't already part of the operating system.

So "the developer's time", at least if it's ME, isn't hampered by using C. In fact, on my resume I *BRAG* about being faster than most people and getting things DONE. And I do. And I use 'C' most of the time.

Re: "but here in the Unix world we like simplicity"

@AC - I don't know which parts to quote to give an example why I give you a ZILLION DOWNVOTES but full-quoting the entire post is kinda dumb.

So "everything in that post of yours" - a big fat THUMBS DOWN

You obviously DO NOT USE the things you appear to act like "an expert" on. I bet your C coding skills are 101-level at best.

Re: add a proper string type in C

Only char arrays."

which is JUST FINE and MORE FLEXIBLE, especially when you're not LAZY and/or spoiled by Java or BASIC.

mastering strings in C/C++ is *SIMPLE*. I've been doing it for YEARS. DECADES even. More than TWO decades.

I suppose this means we need more COMPETENT programmers in the world...

maybe it should be like CW for HAM operators. Code in C only until you're competent in it.

Re: Why exactly is Perl any worse than Python?

"If a professional deems C to be the language required for a project, let her use C"

grammar note: the correct pronoun to use, when the sex of the subjwect is not known, is 'he' (as a subject) or 'him' (as an object). If you don't want to specify a sex, "the programmer" would work, even though it has an awkward style.

In any case, using 'she' sounds like SJW/political-correctness *EXCREMENT* and if, in fact, it *IS* politically correct *EXCREMENT*, it should be shunned, ridiculed, etc. until he who uttered/wrote such an abomination is COMPLETELY EMBARRASSED.

there. I said it.

(but I agree, allow the programmer to use whatever language HE is familiar with in order to provide a useful and maintainable solution within the shortest amount of time and least amount of effort, balanced against reliability).

Re: Why exactly is Perl any worse than Python?

"Python allows for pretty elegant code"

read: cryptic, difficult to maintain code that only works because you were lucky

Re: The COW says.....

it's Perl, so CAMEL

Re: Why not split the difference

Maybe change its name to Semprini - or Chlamydia

(seriously, it's just a victim of feature creep and millennial "it's our turn now" madness .like everything else)

Re: Divide and rule

"you are likely to be uncomfortable suggesting software that has a name that some may find offensive"

Then, let's change it to SEMPRINI

/me ducks

Re: Eh?

*ahem* - gender refers to LANGUAGES like French, Spanish, German (La pluma, Die Wienerschnitzel) and *NOT* to chromosomes. For chromosomes, the correct term is 'sex'. And there are only two.

Re: Eh?

heh. Mongo. heh.

Re: Eh?

we need a new name for hypersensitive SJW "foist my will upon the world" types... something similar to 'gimp' in sound and context, except aimed at the SJW's. Then name the graphical editor after THAT.

Except 'ASSHOLE' doesn't start with a 'G'

Re: People can feel insulted by anything if they want, it is their choice and it is their right

yes but they have NO DAMN RIGHT to FORCE THEIR WILL upon the REST of us because *THEY* happen to be overly-sensitive snowflakes in need of a good "attitude adjustment" with a cluebat or cat-5-o-nine-tails

Re: Eh?

"If Gimp is an ableist insult, how about a Spazz wheelchair?"

careful, some hypersensitive SJW will *FLAG* *YOUR* *POST* as *ABUSIVE* over the 's' word that you used...

even though it was a common nicname in the 80's

Re: Eh?

"Gimp icon because, duh!"

well played

Re: Eh?

I think the name GIMP is AWESOME. It reminds me of a scene from Pulp Fiction.

As for the SJW's who have *NOTHING* *BETTER* *TO* *DO* than to *ANGST* over a *PROGRAM* *NAME*...

GET A LIFE you WORTHLESS SJW SCUMBAGS!!! and STOP FORNICATING WITH THE REST OF US and whatever NAMES WE WANT TO USE.

Might as well call it S&MSUBMISSIVE as opposed to 'GIMP'.

FORNICATING SJW's... !!! NUKE 'EM 'till they GLOW, then SHOOT 'EM in the DARK! (see icon)

Re: Do you like money?

/me hands you a clue-bat, a clue-by-four, and a cat-5-o-nine-tails. For emergency use.

You have my pity.

Re: An easy way to save power...

this would be great, if you change "over a 14.4k dial-up connection" to "so that you COULD use a 14.4k dial-up connection if you wanted to".

Imagine the bandwidth savings! What, YOU never get cell carrier "overage" problems? way too many people DO and this is STILL a big problem - bandwidth waste.

all of that script-fluff in web pages and inefficient formatting - TOTALLY NOT NECESSARY.

Re: There's little incentive to do this

yeah this is all "Captain Obvious" stuff, stuff _I_ have been saying (along with many others) for a VERY, VERY, LOOONG TIME!

Web sites are TOO scripty, waste TOO much bandwidth AND CPU AND MEMORY by hauling in (and worse, making use of) generic monolithic CSS and JS source, and *ADS* are the *WORST* offenders!

Things like 'Materialize' - this is the *WORST* of it. Things like JQuery come in second, I'd say. BOTH should be NUKED FROM ORBIT and NEVER seen again!

Now, being able to DISABLE specific "features" might help, especially if Apple decides that they are PRIVACY ISSUES...

Re: Bring compatibility problems to Window, not the other way around

FuseFS for windows would solve this. But ONLY if the file system drivers DO NOT REQUIRE SIGNED CERTS [which Micro-shaft would NEVER approve of]. Since THEY are the keepers of the keys (aka STRANGLEHOLD) on that, no sneaking any drivers through that allow pure userland file systems, either.

Re: What if ...

actually Mac and Linux _DO_ have exFAT support, via fuse

it's been that way for a while. and the fuse drivers are pretty good. It's a little klunky but works fine (and also in FreeBSD, worth pointing out).

What I'd like to see: universal userland FUSE support in WINDOWS - WITHOUT the need of SIGNED DRIVERS.

Re: White men complain that there are too many white men…

don't work for big "divirsity first" companies. Let their bureaucratic mindset and stupid hiring practices cause them to collapse under their own monolithic weight

"Dell is not a "compute-making giant". It doesn't make anything."

You must include their OEM suppliers IN CHINA to identify them as "manufacturers".

My suggestion: find alternate suppliers, NOT in China. Pay the tariffs as long as you have to, then reap the rewards of NOT having your company taken over by China and/or your intellectual property STOLEN in the future.

Dell: you didn't think about THAT, didja?

Oh, and one more thing, Dell: STFU. You don't understand what's going on. Let Trump *FINISH*. It's working. Reporting your IGNORANCE on these matters is nice fodder for the 'hate-Trump' media, who are ALL exhibiting what Sean Hannity calls "Trump Derangement Syndrome". If Trump cured cancer, ended all worldwide hunger, and agreed to every liberal policy INCLUDING that ridiculous "climate change" B.S., you'd STILL be treating him the same way, because he's Trump. That is what "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is.

The thing is, China has been bullying the world since the 1990's. They do it through UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES, and NOBODY ELSE has been calling them OUT on it.

a) they "dump" their products, undercutting competition, with GOVERNMENT RUN companies. Yes, they're GOVERNMENT RUN by hand-selected "private individuals" "owning" them. China isw a COMMUNIST country. Don't forget that.

b) they regularly STEAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Some of it is only consumed within China itself, but THEY are a large segment of the world population, right?

c) they STILL pay SLAVE WAGES to their employees.

d) working conditions and environmental pollution appear to be WORSE than any 1st world country EVER had in the 20th, let alone 21st century. (I welcome any proof to the contrary, I doubt it exists though)

e) they openly CENSOR what their people can and can not see, hear, and say.

f) they quietly support (read: enable) Kim Jong Un's activities, making it HARDER to deal with him

g) They use "our money" to build up their internal infrastructure *AND* PURCHASE INTEREST IN FOREIGN COMPANIES, which gives them access to RESEARCH and INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY that can THEN be used "back in China".

h) take a look at what China Telecom is doing with 5G. Yeah. Then think about it for a while.

I could go on, but THESE are reasons NOT to trust China's government any more. How many broken promises have they made? How many promises have they KEPT? Probably not very many, I don't have statistics on hand...

SOMEONE has to do SOMETHING. That someone is Trump. That "something" is A TRADE WAR.

As Musashi would say: Never pick up a sword if you aren't willing to cut.

icon, because, FACEPALM

I would happily go to a Linux distro if the majority of software I need to use actually ran on it.

Ack. problem identified. needs A SOLUTION. _I_ have been saying this for YEARS, about people like you, who think this way. thanks for confirming.

Re: MS Missing a trick?

When you're NOT trying to control everyone (aka being an *EVIL* *OVERLORD*) you think of and actually implement things *like* what you suggested.

In Micro-shaft's case, I think they *ARE* trying to be *EVIL* *OVERLORDS* and as such, can't fathom the possibilities of DEVIATING FROM 'THE PLAN'.

that being said, a few years back MS made a "Windows on Mac" extension that ran on OSX that allowed you to run WINDOWS APPLICATIONS NATIVELY. It was a bit like Wine yeah.

They should do EXACTLY THAT for Linux. Let people have their LINUX DESKTOPS, but then use MS's "layer" to RUN WINDOWS APPLICATIONS.

Except, they don't WANT that. THey want you to run *CRapps* from "The Store" that use 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE FLATSO FLUGLY "UWP" INTERFACES.

And if you do *NOT* they will find ways to *PUNISH* you, like convincing EVERY developer out there to NOT develop for ANY OTHER PLATFORM *EXCEPT* UWP on WIn-10-nic.

And they're trying. Hard. SERIOUSLY hard. Fortunately I think it's not working so well as they'd like.

Re: A bit more time ... for migrating to Windows 10 from Windows 7

Yeah, from the article:

"to allow businesses a bit more time to iron out their plans for migrating to Windows 10 from Windows 7"

In my opinion, it's more time to keep a mass migration of windows users from saying "*FEEL* it" and migrating to LINUX or even CHROMEBOOK, instead...

The only thing holding back a Linux revolution is THE APPEARANCE of a lack of available software for Linux. Those of us who use Linux _KNOW_ this is NOT true. However, marketeers from Redmond have DUPED people into *FEELING* (not thinking) that this is the case. Too many people these days *FEEL* instead of THINK, and as a result, they're subject to WHATEVER WHIMS THE MANIPULATORS WANT THEM TO FOLLOW.

THAT is what WIndows 10 is all about. Seriously. People talk about being "woke" but the ones doing that are A MAJOR PART OF THE PROBLEM. To *REALLY* be "woke" you have to realize that you're being MANIPULATED by EMOTIONS and *FEEL*. THEN, stop fearing what you do not understand, gain some knowledge, ask the questions, and get REAL answers.

At that point Linux starts to look very, very good. "That one IT guy" that insists on running it... spend about 5 minutes with THAT guy asking about Linux.

Re: Good. Another year for people to move away from Windows

not if you run 7 in a VM... in MOST cases, a _MODERN_ arch (let's say Ryzen) processor running Linux or FreeBSD as a host for virtualbox (or some other virtualizer) can run your old windows in that VM [which becomes portable, now - think about that] and whatever windows application you need [with some limitations].

No updates required. Whole system backups become trivial

and I *suppose* you could have Win-10-nic as the virtualization host, but why would you WANT to?

I have noticed that Ryzen virtualizes WAY better than the older 'Core' processors did. It makes the case extremely well, to virtualize windows 7 images instead of booting into windows, even for GAMES. And you'll be running them on the newer processor.

Re: "things have moved on, like it or not"

"things have moved on" - not because the customers WANTED it to, but because *THE MONOPOLY* *MADE* *IT* *SO*.

Two major reasons:

a) stranglehold on OS pre-installation from places *LIKE* 'Best Buy'

b) newer hardware not supported by 7 and earlier

It's like a TRUST from the late 19th century, when a single company owns EVERYTHING from resource procurement (mines and wells) to distribution (refineries and factories) to end (gas pumps and cars and trains and railroads and ...)

guess what happens to prices, quality, and customer satisfaction?