Comment Re:Of Course They Do! (Score 1) 129
No, stripped to the bone, operating system offers no APIs at all, and it will not run any user applications.
Uh, what would be the point of such an operating system?
No, stripped to the bone, operating system offers no APIs at all, and it will not run any user applications.
Uh, what would be the point of such an operating system?
Other successful computer languages do not have that problem. Any competent C programmer can maintain any C code, and the same for python and Java. Perl is arguable; the problem is not complexity but opaqueness.
I'm not sure that's true. I feel quite certain I can write Java or C code that others will have trouble maintaining (in fact, I already have)
Nobody wants to fix the hard-to-fix, boring bugs which damage usability.
Like which bugs in particular?
Just by themselves, it wasn't clear they would win against Germany.
As soon as they lost the air, Germany didn't have a chance. It was only a matter of how long, not 'if'.
What sex crimes? I'm unaware of any government anywhere that has charged him with any sex crimes.
If the Swedish charges against him were legitimate he could.
Are you suggesting......it might not have been a legitimate rape?
Except per Swedish and EU law tht would be illegal. I dot know why you people keep bringing it up.
That doesn't mean it won't happen.
I don't think it will, but stranger things have happened and I understand his concern.
this is even worse on political forums, if you dont parrot the forums groupthink, be it right leaning or left leaning you are assaulted by the majority and you end up getting labeled troll, even if your responses are level headed and you are the one being attacked
I wish we could get beyond that politically as a country. It's cool that we can have elections and power transitions without violence, but it would be cool if we could get to the next step of not thinking the opposite party is the enemy.
You cannot just move font processing out of the kernel.
Yes, yes you can.
Windows doesn't do font processing in the kernel
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
