even though the IA-64 arch does seem to have some weird stuff into it, i wouldn't call it UGLY especially when comparing it to the IA-32 "architecture" (or rather lack of it.) and who programs in assembler nowadays? (excluding the MMX/SSE stuff which however is a direct consequence of the crap fpu on IA-32)
IA-64 still has backwards compatibility with ia-32, which has realmode, v86, and protected mode. that makes the ia-64 a mess to start with. compilers still generate assembler in some cases and some people have to use asm for low level things in the kernel and doing things that you can't do in C, like calling software interrupts, which, by the way, requires that you enter either v86 or real mode which isn't as simple as changing the PE bit. you have to setup the stack, and memory segments again and real mode can only physically access 2^20/1024/1024=1 megabyte of memory at once. maybe if intel would stop building on their old crap the whole thing would get a little simplier.
but i guess it would be boring if everything was as simple and stable as a calculator.
I have a windows XP home edition comuter and it is not stable.
The first problem i have is with ftp. I have to transfer my files from my linux computer to my windows computer. So I type ftp://address into explorer and get on. However there are major problems with transferring more than like 3 files at a time so i have to zip directories. usually it will hang on a file if i try to transfer a directory and when i cancel the operation, it just defocuses and stops responding so i have to kill it.
I also notice that ie sometimes becomes unresponsive after using it for a long time, but i don't use it enough to worry about that. About half of the time I start my computer, it asks me if i want to send a bug report because a serious error occured and it won't tell me what it is.
Another problem i have with winxp is gaming. With that new option that reboots the computer when 'the system becomes unstable', my computer reboots randomly during games. I can understand video driver bugs, but this gets annoying. This only really happens a lot with one game though. 3D under linux isn't too stable either, so i don't really have an arguement here.
Besides games, and testing stuff that I make on my linux box, I don't use windows for anything else so thats about it.
StarOffice (you did say "simple" Word documents..)
So you're agreeing that it can't open non-trivial word documents?
My guess is we'd just have one "poor imitation of Windows" as you call it. The practical weakness in your argument is deciding whose vision should be followed.
From my standpoint as a user, I would say that they both have the same vision---and that is to create a desktop environment.
Show me one instance where you have properly submitted a bug report/feature request for any of these office programs you need and I'll reconsider dismissing you as an opinionated parasite.
What does this have to do with anything? I don't know any windows users that submit bug reports.
Personally, I just use windows for playing games. But that is more than half the time.
Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen, but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For example, people used to write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead of ``nonzero'' and ``software''; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words. Thus it's high time for everybody to stop using the archaic spelling ``e-mail''. Think of how many keystrokes you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form ``email'' has been well established in England for several years, so I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard. (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason.)
I'm curious, do you think this would be useful if it could be done reasonably? What kind of mean times do you'd think you'd see for the various products out there?"
no, because all you can do is measure the past of a piece of software and that doesn't tell about the current version or a modified version. the function for calculating the score for a piece of software would be unfair because it probably couldn't take into consider oldness and popularity of a piece of software and if it is open or closed.
it would be better to rate admins by their history.
No, the reason someone would rewrite lisp into C++ would be because of support reasons, not because C++ is simpler. There are more people that know C++ and it is more often taught in schools. The other reason is there aren't many programs that can compile lisp---it usually has to be interpreted which is a pain for most people and pretty slow. In other words, I don't think there would be a reason to use C++ if lisp had great tools for windows/linux/bsd.
After acknowledging that mozilla was the slowest app on my computer for the last year or two, I realized that this is the program that hardware manuacturers are secretly paying for. No wonder netscape is still in business! We have found an essential application that requires a 1.5GHz+ / 256MB+ RAM computer.
I've had trouble setting up jabber to do the CJK langauges. The aim module doesn't work well at all on the stable or unstable server/clients. So I have to stick to email for languages with more characters and IRC for full featured chat. Do you know how to fix these?
I bought quake 3 arena for linux from loki and at that time I was a big supporter of linux games and just buying the linux version. But now I've changed. I have gotten tired of the instablility games cause and the pain of setting up fast 3d under linux. I got q3a to about 10-20 fps
normal and about 20-50 fps with dri and a little XFree 4.0 configuring. I spent more time trying to get a stable set up than i did playing and I've even made opengl games. i don't think accelerated 3d under linux is ready, even now with easy debian/etc. packages and everything else, espically for the average gamer. and it would probably be too painful to port a constantly changing game like everquest.
The real reason they stop arguing is because they know that ed shines in very few places and that you probably aren't serious suggesting it over everything else.
Seven semi-colons is overuse and using semi-colons at all is bad practice.
I have five computers with Debian GNU/Linux and I don't know how much the government is really saving because they probably have to find a few people to maintain and setup the workstations, etc. Even though maintaining probably isn't that hard, it would probably cost more than windows because the workers probably wouldn't be able to do it themselves if problems popped up.
For the sims on the computer there is a patch to remove the censor box when someone got into the shower, tub, etc. I was wondering if there would be the same thing for the movie. Well, they could still probably make it PG-13 with today's standards.
When I first saw it, I knew it meant green but `enviromentally friendly' was not the thing that popped into my mind. When I think of green, the first thing besides the color itself that comes into my head is the green from Metal Gear Solid on playstation. In that context, green is used to represent someone that is new to fighting and is basically a newbie. It's probably a stretch, but I guess you could argue that this is a "new" linux distribution.
If you really read the article, it says the reason that it was one of the worst jobs was because they had to look at the nasty images like the ones on goatse.cx and comp-u-geek.net. And sites that combine those with loops of moving javascript popup windows.
Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos? Probably the best westwood game i've played, by far, command and conquer series isn't close to this RPG which i haven't seen mentioned yet....
Mozilla cvs is fine for me but it is never 'put together'. Well, that is sort of how cvs is---one time something works and another time it is broken. For example, right now I can't edit bookmark properties but if i update my cvs and rebuilt, i bet it will work. However, overall the speed is ok and the stability is ok, but i can still crash on demand if i give it a good load. And I don't think it is GTKs fault, I think it would be the whole new toolkit they are using.
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See gnu.org for that great 90s look.
Any reason for putting the whole comment in type-writer text?
even though the IA-64 arch does seem to have some weird stuff into it, i wouldn't call it UGLY especially when comparing it to the IA-32 "architecture" (or rather lack of it.) and who programs in assembler nowadays? (excluding the MMX/SSE stuff which however is a direct consequence of the crap fpu on IA-32)
IA-64 still has backwards compatibility with ia-32, which has realmode, v86, and protected mode. that makes the ia-64 a mess to start with. compilers still generate assembler in some cases and some people have to use asm for low level things in the kernel and doing things that you can't do in C, like calling software interrupts, which, by the way, requires that you enter either v86 or real mode which isn't as simple as changing the PE bit. you have to setup the stack, and memory segments again and real mode can only physically access 2^20/1024/1024=1 megabyte of memory at once. maybe if intel would stop building on their old crap the whole thing would get a little simplier.
but i guess it would be boring if everything was as simple and stable as a calculator.
i use fvwm2 by itself if that helps.
I have a windows XP home edition comuter and it is not stable.
The first problem i have is with ftp. I have to transfer my files from my linux computer to my windows computer. So I type ftp://address into explorer and get on. However there are major problems with transferring more than like 3 files at a time so i have to zip directories. usually it will hang on a file if i try to transfer a directory and when i cancel the operation, it just defocuses and stops responding so i have to kill it.
I also notice that ie sometimes becomes unresponsive after using it for a long time, but i don't use it enough to worry about that. About half of the time I start my computer, it asks me if i want to send a bug report because a serious error occured and it won't tell me what it is.
Another problem i have with winxp is gaming. With that new option that reboots the computer when 'the system becomes unstable', my computer reboots randomly during games. I can understand video driver bugs, but this gets annoying. This only really happens a lot with one game though. 3D under linux isn't too stable either, so i don't really have an arguement here.
Besides games, and testing stuff that I make on my linux box, I don't use windows for anything else so thats about it.
StarOffice (you did say "simple" Word documents..)
So you're agreeing that it can't open non-trivial word documents?
My guess is we'd just have one "poor imitation of Windows" as you call it. The practical weakness in your argument is deciding whose vision should be followed.
From my standpoint as a user, I would say that they both have the same vision---and that is to create a desktop environment.
Show me one instance where you have properly submitted a bug report/feature request for any of these office programs you need and I'll reconsider dismissing you as an opinionated parasite.
What does this have to do with anything? I don't know any windows users that submit bug reports.
Personally, I just use windows for playing games. But that is more than half the time.
Here is a quote from Donald Knuth's homepage:
A note on email versus e-mail
Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen, but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For example, people used to write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead of ``nonzero'' and ``software''; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words. Thus it's high time for everybody to stop using the archaic spelling ``e-mail''. Think of how many keystrokes you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form ``email'' has been well established in England for several years, so I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard. (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason.)
no, `X Windows' is not the proper name for the X Window System. more info
mcookie | mkpasswd -s
I'm curious, do you think this would be useful if it could be done reasonably? What kind of mean times do you'd think you'd see for the various products out there?"
no, because all you can do is measure the past of a piece of software and that doesn't tell about the current version or a modified version. the function for calculating the score for a piece of software would be unfair because it probably couldn't take into consider oldness and popularity of a piece of software and if it is open or closed.
it would be better to rate admins by their history.
Only females can exploit this hole!*
You mean famales right?
No, the reason someone would rewrite lisp into C++ would be because of support reasons, not because C++ is simpler. There are more people that know C++ and it is more often taught in schools. The other reason is there aren't many programs that can compile lisp---it usually has to be interpreted which is a pain for most people and pretty slow. In other words, I don't think there would be a reason to use C++ if lisp had great tools for windows/linux/bsd.
After acknowledging that mozilla was the slowest app on my computer for the last year or two, I realized that this is the program that hardware manuacturers are secretly paying for. No wonder netscape is still in business! We have found an essential application that requires a 1.5GHz+ / 256MB+ RAM computer.
I've had trouble setting up jabber to do the CJK langauges. The aim module doesn't work well at all on the stable or unstable server/clients. So I have to stick to email for languages with more characters and IRC for full featured chat. Do you know how to fix these?
My view:
I bought quake 3 arena for linux from loki and at that time I was a big supporter of linux games and just buying the linux version. But now I've changed. I have gotten tired of the instablility games cause and the pain of setting up fast 3d under linux. I got q3a to about 10-20 fps normal and about 20-50 fps with dri and a little XFree 4.0 configuring. I spent more time trying to get a stable set up than i did playing and I've even made opengl games. i don't think accelerated 3d under linux is ready, even now with easy debian/etc. packages and everything else, espically for the average gamer. and it would probably be too painful to port a constantly changing game like everquest.
The real reason they stop arguing is because they know that ed shines in very few places and that you probably aren't serious suggesting it over everything else.
Seven semi-colons is overuse and using semi-colons at all is bad practice.
I have five computers with Debian GNU/Linux and I don't know how much the government is really saving because they probably have to find a few people to maintain and setup the workstations, etc. Even though maintaining probably isn't that hard, it would probably cost more than windows because the workers probably wouldn't be able to do it themselves if problems popped up.
For the sims on the computer there is a patch to remove the censor box when someone got into the shower, tub, etc. I was wondering if there would be the same thing for the movie. Well, they could still probably make it PG-13 with today's standards.
When I first saw it, I knew it meant green but `enviromentally friendly' was not the thing that popped into my mind. When I think of green, the first thing besides the color itself that comes into my head is the green from Metal Gear Solid on playstation. In that context, green is used to represent someone that is new to fighting and is basically a newbie. It's probably a stretch, but I guess you could argue that this is a "new" linux distribution.
Does slashdot have to use this buzzword everyday? "open source" newsgroup archives? since when were newsgroup archives closed source---or any source.
If you really read the article, it says the reason that it was one of the worst jobs was because they had to look at the nasty images like the ones on goatse.cx and comp-u-geek.net. And sites that combine those with loops of moving javascript popup windows.
Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos? Probably the best westwood game i've played, by far, command and conquer series isn't close to this RPG which i haven't seen mentioned yet....
Too bad they didn't patient the thumbnails that take you to a place other than the enlarged version of the thumbnail. Those are such a drag.
i do all of that. but X tries to probe agpgart and dri if you build it in. so i have it as a module. i guess i'll try glxinfo. thanks
Mozilla cvs is fine for me but it is never 'put together'. Well, that is sort of how cvs is---one time something works and another time it is broken. For example, right now I can't edit bookmark properties but if i update my cvs and rebuilt, i bet it will work. However, overall the speed is ok and the stability is ok, but i can still crash on demand if i give it a good load. And I don't think it is GTKs fault, I think it would be the whole new toolkit they are using.