Have you ever heard of DLL Hell? The situation is the same on the windows side, just that most apps include their own version of the dynamic libraries in their app, which unfortunately blow away whatever you have installed and lead to an unstable system. It's hard to manage different versions of these libs.
There's no reason that a HD means that patching will happen. Especially if the OS is in a ROM. Patching occurs because of sloppy programming and can happen anywhere. Remember the PS2 was recalled in japan, and that many console games have bugs (not nearly as bad as the PC market however, probably due to homogeneity).
What we need are fully scriptable apps so that the GUI presented can be completely modified depending on the user preferences. Not just 'skinning', but allowing new functionallity by binding keys & menus to script macros. That way a beginners interface could be the default, and you can tweak the interface (or download one) for more advanced users. Emacs and Autocad are two apps that come to mind, though I wouldn't say the execution is perfect in either.
With tools like python and guile that are easily embeddable in other programs, i can only hope that this is on the horizon.
Dont you have to defend your (c) or lose it in the states?
No, you're thinking of a trademark. Copyright is now inherit when you create the work, and exists even if you allow millions free access to your work.
It makes sense in the case of trademark - a TM is something that distinguishes your organization or product in a particular space; if many use it then you aren't very distinguished.
I wouldn't say drinking during lunch in the USA is completely wierd, but it isn't that common either. I have had many lunches at local breweries, of course my drinking habits depended on who is there (don't drink in front of the manager unless they do) and how much work i have (the more work the more beer;)
SQL != "sequel" Sequel was a query language developed by ibm before SQL was the standard. There use to be a number of query languages, but eventually sql won, for better or worse.
Use LAME with VBR. Since it has been getting constantly updated the general consensus is that it is better than Frau[can't spell] at anything but low bitrate stuff, and will probably encode faster. On my Celeron 300A/450 I can encode a whole CD in about real time (not counting ripping).
To protect your computer you should use SSH port forwarded over SSH port forwarded over SSH with super-duper encryption enabled ( --enable-rot13 ). This should all be done over a private T1 line that has been encased in cement with rabid dogs guarding both ends of the line.
Be sure to test out the setup by telneting in from a cable modem though.
Actually/. owes me money. Taco forces me to obsessively reload the page and read all the trolling-for-Scooby Doo and highly-rated-linux-rules-platitudes posts. I'm a highly paid professionaly so all this wasted time is coming out of my bottom line. I think the US government should look into filing a suit against/. for the damage it does to the productivity of computer professionals. I'm sure there are internal memos between CmdrTaco and Hemos acknowledging/. addictive effects and targeting children. Just look at the anime cartoon character on the front page!!
Not to mention frivolous lawsuits by behemoths like Creative. Those bastards were so use to sitting on their laurels that they tried to crush the superior technology that Aureal developed. The Vortex chip is awesome, far superior to the EAX system that is on the SBLives. It actually does wave tracing to calculate 3d sounds, while EAX just adds reverb and other cheesy effects. EAX can sound pretty good if done right, but A3D sounds awesome. If only the Linux drivers would be open sourced (I think the web site promised this before the company fell apart), I would be a happy man.
Their logo is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. I'm pissed they went down before I could get a T-shirt, no better fashion statement than an engineering disaster.
I see what you're saying! Technology won't help grow more food, technology won't allow people contribute money to the cause, technology won't fly the food across an ocean, technology won't improve distribution channels in a country...we have to help people with people, we have to feed people, with people!!! It's all about the soylent green. Cook me up another one of those 8 year olds.
South Park is done using Softimage in order to recreate the cardboard cutout look. It has the advantage of being able to change the script at the last minute and just let the 'puter chug through the animation rather than having a team in korea rework it. That's part of the reason that SP manages to be so topical (the Elian episode was hilarious). There was a great interview with the SP tech guys a while ago, maybe it made it to/. I think they're just over in Marina Del Rey, I should go stalk them sometime...
I take it you know of LyX. It's nice to be able to output your document to just about any format possible. As for the annotation, I suppose one could write a seamless front end for RCS.
Resistance increases as semiconductors heat up - the cooler the better. Break out a solid state physics text and we can look it up. Overclocking is still harmless though.
Maybe you should get a dual standard TV in the UK and ship it to the US. I know people who have those from Hong Kong, so they do exist. I think such a beast would be hard to find and over priced here in the US though.
Luckily most SSH installations are of v1 since v2 has license issues; at least all the installations that I have seen are v1. Another neat thing about putty is that there is a scp clone avalable. Now it just needs port redirection...could this be copied from openssh?
IANACM (I am not a caveman), but I know that Oog has watched old episodes of Saturday Night Live. They used to have a skit where a thawed out caveman would win over a court or audience by talking about how he didn't understand modern appliances. Still funny though.
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Have you ever heard of DLL Hell? The situation is the same on the windows side, just that most apps include their own version of the dynamic libraries in their app, which unfortunately blow away whatever you have installed and lead to an unstable system. It's hard to manage different versions of these libs.
My contribution:
How to tell if your system is little or big endian
int x = 1;
if( *(*char)&x )
printf( "little endian\n" );
else
printf( "big endian\n" );
Or something
No, I am praising emacs as having a scriptable interface. You can call an elisp function for any functionality of the program.
There's no reason that a HD means that patching will happen. Especially if the OS is in a ROM. Patching occurs because of sloppy programming and can happen anywhere. Remember the PS2 was recalled in japan, and that many console games have bugs (not nearly as bad as the PC market however, probably due to homogeneity).
What we need are fully scriptable apps so that the GUI presented can be completely modified depending on the user preferences. Not just 'skinning', but allowing new functionallity by binding keys & menus to script macros. That way a beginners interface could be the default, and you can tweak the interface (or download one) for more advanced users. Emacs and Autocad are two apps that come to mind, though I wouldn't say the execution is perfect in either.
With tools like python and guile that are easily embeddable in other programs, i can only hope that this is on the horizon.
Dont you have to defend your (c) or lose it in the states?
No, you're thinking of a trademark. Copyright is now inherit when you create the work, and exists even if you allow millions free access to your work.
It makes sense in the case of trademark - a TM is something that distinguishes your organization or product in a particular space; if many use it then you aren't very distinguished.
I wouldn't say drinking during lunch in the USA is completely wierd, but it isn't that common either. I have had many lunches at local breweries, of course my drinking habits depended on who is there (don't drink in front of the manager unless they do) and how much work i have (the more work the more beer ;)
SQL != "sequel" Sequel was a query language developed by ibm before SQL was the standard. There use to be a number of query languages, but eventually sql won, for better or worse.
Use LAME with VBR. Since it has been getting constantly updated the general consensus is that it is better than Frau[can't spell] at anything but low bitrate stuff, and will probably encode faster. On my Celeron 300A/450 I can encode a whole CD in about real time (not counting ripping).
To protect your computer you should use SSH port forwarded over SSH port forwarded over SSH with super-duper encryption enabled ( --enable-rot13 ). This should all be done over a private T1 line that has been encased in cement with rabid dogs guarding both ends of the line.
Be sure to test out the setup by telneting in from a cable modem though.
Autonomous agents? Micropayments? New paradigm of information distribution? Is Nicholas Negroponte[1] somehow involved?
*HEAD EXPLODES*
[1]Negroponte is head of the MIT Media lab and use to write a column in the back of Wired that never failed to mention one of these buzzwords.
Actually /. owes me money. Taco forces me to obsessively reload the page and read all the trolling-for-Scooby Doo and highly-rated-linux-rules-platitudes posts. I'm a highly paid professionaly so all this wasted time is coming out of my bottom line. I think the US government should look into filing a suit against /. for the damage it does to the productivity of computer professionals. I'm sure there are internal memos between CmdrTaco and Hemos acknowledging /. addictive effects and targeting children. Just look at the anime cartoon character on the front page!!
i got an idea on how we can fix the problem of overcrowded prisons ;-)
Aggressive marketing of birth control?
But you need references/pointers to do polymorphism, so there is some limit.
. I don't think that bad Java code is any better than bad C code, though. You'd just end up with a different class of bugs.
Bugs that throw an exception, stop the program, print out a stack trace, and get fixed.
Good products can fail because of poor management
Not to mention frivolous lawsuits by behemoths like Creative. Those bastards were so use to sitting on their laurels that they tried to crush the superior technology that Aureal developed. The Vortex chip is awesome, far superior to the EAX system that is on the SBLives. It actually does wave tracing to calculate 3d sounds, while EAX just adds reverb and other cheesy effects. EAX can sound pretty good if done right, but A3D sounds awesome. If only the Linux drivers would be open sourced (I think the web site promised this before the company fell apart), I would be a happy man.
kuro5hin == corrosion
Their logo is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. I'm pissed they went down before I could get a T-shirt, no better fashion statement than an engineering disaster.
I see what you're saying! Technology won't help grow more food, technology won't allow people contribute money to the cause, technology won't fly the food across an ocean, technology won't improve distribution channels in a country...we have to help people with people, we have to feed people, with people!!! It's all about the soylent green. Cook me up another one of those 8 year olds.
Your idiocy is a detriment to your cause.
South Park is done using Softimage in order to recreate the cardboard cutout look. It has the advantage of being able to change the script at the last minute and just let the 'puter chug through the animation rather than having a team in korea rework it. That's part of the reason that SP manages to be so topical (the Elian episode was hilarious). There was a great interview with the SP tech guys a while ago, maybe it made it to /. I think they're just over in Marina Del Rey, I should go stalk them sometime...
I take it you know of LyX. It's nice to be able to output your document to just about any format possible. As for the annotation, I suppose one could write a seamless front end for RCS.
Resistance increases as semiconductors heat up - the cooler the better. Break out a solid state physics text and we can look it up. Overclocking is still harmless though.
GUI/CLI love child:
xmlterm
Maybe you should get a dual standard TV in the UK and ship it to the US. I know people who have those from Hong Kong, so they do exist. I think such a beast would be hard to find and over priced here in the US though.
Luckily most SSH installations are of v1 since v2 has license issues; at least all the installations that I have seen are v1. Another neat thing about putty is that there is a scp clone avalable. Now it just needs port redirection...could this be copied from openssh?
IANACM (I am not a caveman), but I know that Oog has watched old episodes of Saturday Night Live. They used to have a skit where a thawed out caveman would win over a court or audience by talking about how he didn't understand modern appliances. Still funny though.