Comment Stop trolling and learn to use Google. (Score 0) 385
Slashdot isn't an academic discussion board where precision is required.
Stop being such an obvious troll; or at least try to troll with finesse.
Slashdot isn't an academic discussion board where precision is required.
Stop being such an obvious troll; or at least try to troll with finesse.
What ever happened to the previous environmental scares used to try and drum up funding for your pseudo-science?
- We were told acid rain would destroy European forests. Hmm doesn't seem to have happened.
- We were told CFCs were destroying the ozone layer and causing wild animals to go blind. We banned CFCs and it has had no effect on the hole in the ozone layer and the claims of blindness have been proven to be lies.
- We were told that the Sahara desert was growing south: what actually happened was the area got greener!
Environmental scare stories, of which the impact of Climate Change is just the latest incarnation, has a long and dishonourable history of dishonesty.
That Objective-C "came as a package" does not mean Apple "didn't adopt Objective-C".
Nor does your statement that "Objective-C is an attempt to graft SmallTalk style... blah blah blah"
Agreed.
And I think Swift is rather disappointing.
Given the opportunity to make a clean sweep and introduce a modern language for OSX and iOS Apple decided to make one that is so fatally flawed in so many ways.
Type-casting -oh my lord type casting- is so astoundingly bad in Swift it really beggars belief that in the 21st century anyone could design something that bad!
A few thousand years is no time at all in evolutionary terms.
So I assume you're arguing that bread is something we haven't yet evolved to safely digest?
I agree: I'd go as far as to say that gluten intolerance and diabetes could be considered part of the evolutionary process, weeding out those of us who lack the genes to safely digest high carb, cereal based, diets.
It is TEDx, shit for brains.
Try watching the video before you share your inane ramblings that would embarrass an amoeba: it's right on the splash screen at the start and the end.
Or perhaps you were too busy drooling to notice.
Have you been asleep for the last 2 years?
Cell 'phones can be, and are, used to track your location all the time they are on whether making a call or not. And not just by the NSA et al but by your 'phone company.
What? Your post started off "okay but mistaken" and then just descended into self-conscious gibberish.
Stallman's principles and objectives have been consistent. Just because you don't agree with them is irrelevant, even if you try to discredit them attaching derogatory labels to them: if anything you're post was a prime example of being obtuse and you've clearly gone wrong.
You're wrong.
Stallman's objectives have been the same since he established the FSF and he enumerates them as his 4 Freedoms.
The problem is that people, including you, fail to pick up that Free software is primarily about morality and ethics, not coding or technology.
Stallman has always been very clear on these points.
The confusion rests solely in your head: *your* term "free open-source" is at the heart of it.
Watch his TEDx video, you know the thing your commenting on, and he explains it all very clearly.
You're an idiot.
"...and wants all software to be open-source."
No, he absolutely does not want all software to be "open-source".
He espouses 4 freedoms which can only be achieved through "FREE/Libre software".
"Open-source" has different aims and he speaks against them.
The rest of your post is equally ill informed and utterly misses his points, which demonstrated either you didn't even bother watching the TEDx video before vomiting out your rather moronic post or you were incapable of understanding.
Free software is literally nothing to do with whether "it's harder to write and debug applications".
I had that situation face-to-face.
Black guy whose only qualification was a piece of paper from Sun saying he could answer questions about Java. (Shouldn't have even been called for interview really: the company was desperate to diversify away from just VB development).
I simply could not understand a single word he said! I had to stop the interview after 10 minutes.
How is a posting that missed the humour completely 'insightful'?
"How is their only option"?!?!
*You* said it was and I quote from your post just a few inches up:
"It's the only decent, free and customizable mobile OS with a decent app library."
Short term memory loss?
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