Comment Re:glide into the edge (Score 1) 44
No, Uranus.
No, Uranus.
^^^ Actually, the attempt was to simplify something in each version. Oberon 2013 is perhaps the simplest one yet, but there's really two lineages to watch, and most people would probably find the BlackBox Component Builder much more palatable. (Although it's in a need of a massive overhaul, if you ask me - I'm actually considering looking into trying to graft the match-bounded polymorphism approach onto it, as outlined in Kim B. Bruce's Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages, because it just might turn out to be a good fit for the language. It's a massive effort, though; a whole 3.5% of the effort needed to write a correct C++ compiler
You know, the "burn the diskpacks" approach was actually what got Smalltalk in the 1970s in a short period of time into the forefront of software systems. Outside of Lisp machines, I'm not aware of anything that advanced in that time period. But after they set the language and system design in stone to commercialize it, most of the advancement has stopped, and new aggressive designs started later catching up (somewhat, at least). The same thing has happened with the (post?)modern computing systems like Linux or Windows that succeeded it in many of its domains: once you accept the status quo, the only way to "improve" the system will involve piling a complex layer on top of the existing system to "fix" the deficiencies of the layer beneath it at least for new applications. Significant new progress in the field suddenly becomes almost impossible under these circumstances.
Sony
There's your biggest con, right there.
Find another song, click on "Buy", and I have to type in my password again.
Jesus wept.
Nobody needs to use VIM or Emac's anymore unless that's what they are comfortable using.
So, no one uses vim or emacs except for the people who do? I'm glad we've clarified that, thanks!
What the fuck are these so-called "benefits" of a "15 minute open purchase window" that are so obvious and intuitive?
Forget about "the children". Who is so badly damaged as a person that they feel that it's currently just too hard to buy stuff online?
You know, I'm starting to think those kooks over at Adbusters might be on to something. We are one fucked-up society, and it looks like the marketing/industrial complex is in large part to blame.
How can a patent not be disclosed to the public, unless it's some kind of national security thing? Here's one of the patents listed:
System and Method for Selecting a Tab Within a Tabbed Browser
Oh, this makes my head hurt. No wonder Samsung is telling Microsoft where they can stick their patents.
I don't know if the headline is just poorly written, but it seems to suggest that Microsoft is suing Samsung for Android patents.
Microsoft owns Android patents? Since when?
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin