On top of all the other replies above, consoles don't seem to work for the MMO games such as WOW or Eve Online which seem to draw a large part of the gaming crowd these days. So while there's some interesting developments on the console front (with the Wii notably), it will remain a parallel market that merely intersects with the PC on some titles.
And as another poster pointed out, the games most people play are, oddly enough, Flash games. Which require a PC of some kind.
The more likely scenario is that some stupid developer copied and pasted code because he couldn't figure out how to implement it on his own. Or some stupid developer statically linked to GPLd code. Microsoft has a lot of developers, I'm sure some of them don't bother to check license information when they search the web for help.
Agreed, that's probably what happened. And that can fairly easily slip through internal code review. It wouldn't make much sense for MS to have tried to borrow some GPLed code since everybody scrutinizes their every move.
By doing this Microsoft have added weight to their argument that businesses shouldn't use other people's code because copyright's viral nature is dangerous.
Fixed that for you.
They did both. They also agreed that the GPL was, in their opinion, enforceable. Which is a good thing and places it on the same rank as any other license.
In the end, if you use code from somewhere else, abide by its rules. Even if you are Microsoft (possibly especially if you are Microsoft because of the huge potential backslash).
Not really. We just want things for free. The GPL gives us things for free.
No it doesn't. Microsoft thought it did. Which led to their embarrassing about face. "Yay, we're doing something different, because we're Microsoft and we just like acting crazy every now and then... *ahem, cough* (also PNAMBIC)"
If you want stuff for free you need the BSD license. Whether it's what's best for you at time T is another question.
the Sun rep was giving an executive overview of its HA features, full hot swap of processor boards, power supplies, yadda yadda yadda. My (then) boss, a lowly manager in the VP crowd, walks up to the e4500 and pops a processor card out... the whole system seg faults an UGLY death. Ahhh... good times.
Nothing kills a demo like a manager. The rep should have remembered to tie them to their chairs.
It depends whether the new Sun management is willing to collaborate...
Oracle : Bring out your dead ! Sun : I've got one. nine pence. Solaris : I'm not dead! Oracle : What ? Sun : Nothing -- here's your nine pence. Solaris : I'm not dead! Oracle : Here -- he says he's not dead! Sun : Yes, he is. Solaris : I'm getting better! Sun : No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment. [... ]
Solaris needs to exist to support the Sun SPARC64 and UltraSPARC T2+ processors, the latter of which is a multithreading whiz. It is used extensively where I work, and I hope they keep making it, as 128 simultaneous hardware threads in a 1U can be some powerful stuff when programmed for appropriately.
Which is why it's such a niche application. Even on a random consumer multi core CPU it's depressing how many processes seem to spawn everything on the same core (more so on an i7 shown with more cores than it really has by Linux).
May appeal to you also, if you use Linux, Solaris, BSD's etc. et al also (it's multiplatform, based on industry best practices for each & helps large - see the results again for windows folks though, above, for your reference Fred & enjoy...)
Thanks but I think I'll pass all the same. The last time I used Windows was 3.11. Glad it works for you though.
1.) HOSTS files being unable to use "0" for a blocking IP address [... ] for instance? Mine currently contains nearly 654,000 entries of known bad adbanners, bad websites, &/or bad nameservers (used for controlling botnets, misdirecting net requests, etc. et al).
WTF ?
Am I the only one finding this completely ludicrous ? Get a hardware firewall already, or NoScript or something. Even back before DNS I'm not sure there were host files that large floating around.
Since 4.2, KDE works just fine. I use it all day long and have no trouble with it. The early releases were majorly broken though. Why they made it into the distros is beyond me.
Yea, and I like how the "Files and folders confuse people" comes across. Seriously, if files and folders confuses you, you might want to reevaluate your need to use a computer.
It certainly would be nice if only people qualified to use a computer did so, but it won't happen any time soon. Even people who have lived with computers all their lives still have no idea how they work. All they know are a handful of applications and MSN messenger. That's because to most of the population, computers are utterly boring.
Actually, step out of America and some of the west, and it is called the Mexican Flu [... ]
Here (France) it is refered to as the "A" flu, or sometimes H1N1 as per WHO naming conventions. The "pig flu" nickname regularly persists in everyday conversations though.
A toaster is something you *can* fix. It's not like cancer or something else where you have little to nothing control over it. You can just do it, if you really want to.
A car is something you *can* fix. It's not like cancer or something else where you have little to nothing control over it. You can just do it, if you really want to.
The results of this study are somewhat disturbing. For instance: how did they determine the attractiveness of non-human females?
It takes all kinds. Live and let live that's my motto. I'm glad that people with an exotic kink could find a useful job. In this economy it's no mean feat.
I'm also not sure that this is easily applicable to people. The blurb mentions that female comb and her fertility are strongly correlated in several ways
female attractiveness is determined by the expression of a sexual ornament -- the comb -- which is phenotypically and genetically correlated to the number and mass of eggs females lay
Is there a similar correlation for human females?
Most human females have combs and quite a few of them wear some as ornaments. On the other hand, they still normally only lay one egg at a time. So maybe another criteria should be use to correlate the quality of the comb and the reproductive prowess of the female.
I've got tired with the state of desktop GNU/Linux. Most of the problems that I see with it can be traced back to the underlying window system, X.
I regularly see a number of problems with desktop Linux, having been using it for 15 years or so, but few of them had anything to do with X11. A number of them had to do with ALSA, or CUPS or broken APIC or DPMS support. X worked fine for me. Especially its keyboard management which let me enter exotic characters much more easily than on any other platform, Windows or MacOS (the latter being by far the worst).
Also:
In-server widgets means there can be exactly one current language, one complex input method system for languages that require them, and one set of accessibility features.
This has fail written all over it. You definitely want several current languages in many cases.
I don't think this project is going to gather many followers.
its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security
- Our chief selling point is speed... speed and security. Our two selling points are speed and security. And simplicity. Our *three* selling points are speed, simplicity and security... and openness... Our *four*, no, *Amongst* our selling points are such diverse elements as, speed, simplicity... Wait, I'll do this again. (exits)
The problem with X11 is that it is a very old design and an extreme pain to develop with directly because of the API 'aesthetics'.. but it would be much much harder to replace it with something from scratch.
But there are dozens, if not hundreds of libraries which address that particular problem. I don't think anyone talks to X directly any more, it would be a bit like programming in assembly.
And an awful lot of the legacy crud of X seems to be replaced nowadays (although that's still work in progress I suppose). So we'll presumably end up with old compatibility stuff and the new standard interfaces.
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But Firefox has a longer name !
On the other hand I guess Internet Explorer have them both beat.
On top of all the other replies above, consoles don't seem to work for the MMO games such as WOW or Eve Online which seem to draw a large part of the gaming crowd these days. So while there's some interesting developments on the console front (with the Wii notably), it will remain a parallel market that merely intersects with the PC on some titles.
And as another poster pointed out, the games most people play are, oddly enough, Flash games. Which require a PC of some kind.
The more likely scenario is that some stupid developer copied and pasted code because he couldn't figure out how to implement it on his own. Or some stupid developer statically linked to GPLd code. Microsoft has a lot of developers, I'm sure some of them don't bother to check license information when they search the web for help.
Agreed, that's probably what happened. And that can fairly easily slip through internal code review. It wouldn't make much sense for MS to have tried to borrow some GPLed code since everybody scrutinizes their every move.
By doing this Microsoft have added weight to their argument that businesses shouldn't use other people's code because copyright's viral nature is dangerous.
Fixed that for you.
They did both. They also agreed that the GPL was, in their opinion, enforceable. Which is a good thing and places it on the same rank as any other license.
In the end, if you use code from somewhere else, abide by its rules. Even if you are Microsoft (possibly especially if you are Microsoft because of the huge potential backslash).
Not really. We just want things for free. The GPL gives us things for free.
No it doesn't. Microsoft thought it did. Which led to their embarrassing about face. "Yay, we're doing something different, because we're Microsoft and we just like acting crazy every now and then... *ahem, cough* (also PNAMBIC)"
If you want stuff for free you need the BSD license. Whether it's what's best for you at time T is another question.
BASH, Expect, C ... sounds suspiciously like the hairballs I cooked up back when I was slaving away with sysadmin monkey duties.
Well, I'm not cleaning *that* up !
the Sun rep was giving an executive overview of its HA features, full hot swap of processor boards, power supplies, yadda yadda yadda. My (then) boss, a lowly manager in the VP crowd, walks up to the e4500 and pops a processor card out ... the whole system seg faults an UGLY death. Ahhh ... good times.
Nothing kills a demo like a manager. The rep should have remembered to tie them to their chairs.
OpenSolaris will not be completely dead.
It depends whether the new Sun management is willing to collaborate...
Oracle : Bring out your dead ! ... ]
Sun : I've got one. nine pence.
Solaris : I'm not dead!
Oracle : What ?
Sun : Nothing -- here's your nine pence.
Solaris : I'm not dead!
Oracle : Here -- he says he's not dead!
Sun : Yes, he is.
Solaris : I'm getting better!
Sun : No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.
[
Solaris needs to exist to support the Sun SPARC64 and UltraSPARC T2+ processors, the latter of which is a multithreading whiz. It is used extensively where I work, and I hope they keep making it, as 128 simultaneous hardware threads in a 1U can be some powerful stuff when programmed for appropriately.
Which is why it's such a niche application. Even on a random consumer multi core CPU it's depressing how many processes seem to spawn everything on the same core (more so on an i7 shown with more cores than it really has by Linux).
ZFS, Nuff Said
I don't recall nuff saying anything of the sort.
Or anything else for that matter.
May appeal to you also, if you use Linux, Solaris, BSD's etc. et al also (it's multiplatform, based on industry best practices for each & helps large - see the results again for windows folks though, above, for your reference Fred & enjoy...)
Thanks but I think I'll pass all the same.
The last time I used Windows was 3.11. Glad it works for you though.
1.) HOSTS files being unable to use "0" for a blocking IP address ... ]
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for instance? Mine currently contains nearly 654,000 entries of known bad adbanners, bad websites, &/or bad nameservers (used for controlling botnets, misdirecting net requests, etc. et al).
WTF ?
Am I the only one finding this completely ludicrous ? Get a hardware firewall already, or NoScript or something.
Even back before DNS I'm not sure there were host files that large floating around.
Is this how it's done in Windows ?
Since 4.2, KDE works just fine. I use it all day long and have no trouble with it.
The early releases were majorly broken though. Why they made it into the distros is beyond me.
Yea, and I like how the "Files and folders confuse people" comes across. Seriously, if files and folders confuses you, you might want to reevaluate your need to use a computer.
It certainly would be nice if only people qualified to use a computer did so, but it won't happen any time soon.
Even people who have lived with computers all their lives still have no idea how they work. All they know are a handful of applications and MSN messenger.
That's because to most of the population, computers are utterly boring.
How dare you question America? Also, while I'm at it, corn is by far the most efficient source of ethanol, unlike sugar cane, which is for communists.
Damn, I read too fast and was wondering how obesity could be transformed into ethanol.
And I was willing to subscribe to your newsletter too.
- disappointed.
Actually, step out of America and some of the west, and it is called the Mexican Flu [ ... ]
Here (France) it is refered to as the "A" flu, or sometimes H1N1 as per WHO naming conventions.
The "pig flu" nickname regularly persists in everyday conversations though.
"waste to hip ratio?" Is that measured in grams of feces per day over number of Apple products owned?
Shouldn't it be iPod / MacBooks trashed vs. iPod / MacBooks bought ?
You're doing it wrong...
A toaster is something you *can* fix. It's not like cancer or something else where you have little to nothing control over it. You can just do it, if you really want to.
A car is something you *can* fix. It's not like cancer or something else where you have little to nothing control over it. You can just do it, if you really want to.
There, that's a proper /. analogy.
You don't read TFWebsite often, do you? That project has been dead since 2004.
Maybe he's a slow programmer. :)
I'll wait until 2015 before I form a definitive opinion.
The results of this study are somewhat disturbing. For instance: how did they determine the attractiveness of non-human females?
It takes all kinds. Live and let live that's my motto.
I'm glad that people with an exotic kink could find a useful job. In this economy it's no mean feat.
I'm also not sure that this is easily applicable to people. The blurb mentions that female comb and her fertility are strongly correlated in several ways
female attractiveness is determined by the expression of a sexual ornament -- the comb -- which is phenotypically and genetically correlated to the number and mass of eggs females lay
Is there a similar correlation for human females?
Most human females have combs and quite a few of them wear some as ornaments. On the other hand, they still normally only lay one egg at a time. So maybe another criteria should be use to correlate the quality of the comb and the reproductive prowess of the female.
As usual, it all gets complicated with humans.
You mean like http://www.y-windows.org/ ?
From that page :
I've got tired with the state of desktop GNU/Linux. Most of the problems that I see with it can be traced back to the underlying window system, X.
I regularly see a number of problems with desktop Linux, having been using it for 15 years or so, but few of them had anything to do with X11. A number of them had to do with ALSA, or CUPS or broken APIC or DPMS support. X worked fine for me. Especially its keyboard management which let me enter exotic characters much more easily than on any other platform, Windows or MacOS (the latter being by far the worst).
Also :
In-server widgets means there can be exactly one current language, one complex input method system for languages that require them, and one set of accessibility features.
This has fail written all over it. You definitely want several current languages in many cases.
I don't think this project is going to gather many followers.
its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security
- Our chief selling point is speed... speed and security. Our two selling points are speed and security. And simplicity. Our *three* selling points are speed, simplicity and security... and openness...
Our *four*, no, *Amongst* our selling points are such diverse elements as, speed, simplicity...
Wait, I'll do this again. (exits)
- I didn't expect yet another Google Beta
The problem with X11 is that it is a very old design and an extreme pain to develop with directly because of the API 'aesthetics'.. but it would be much much harder to replace it with something from scratch.
But there are dozens, if not hundreds of libraries which address that particular problem. I don't think anyone talks to X directly any more, it would be a bit like programming in assembly.
And an awful lot of the legacy crud of X seems to be replaced nowadays (although that's still work in progress I suppose). So we'll presumably end up with old compatibility stuff and the new standard interfaces.
The software architecture is simple â" Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel."
This is what the world has been waiting for....
Finally, it's about time we moved on. X is dead, all hail Y !
Or is it finally Berlin ^H^H^H^H^H^H Fresco ??
Oh wait, X works fine after all and is being actively fixed.