Oh, the guns again... yes, how very democratic. I mean, if you're so illiterate that you can hardly read or write, you can still get your opinion across by sticking a gun into somebody's face. And I bet you won't take kindly to counter arguments, either.
If you need a gun to get your argument across, you've _lost_ the discussion. Completely.
Plus his stint as the gunslinging son to Gene Hackman's evil sheriff in Raimi's "The Quick and the Dead": At times, he really showed the fear/hatred mix when he was around Gene. And with all the controversy around "Basketball Diaries", that must also have had some qualities... though I haven't seen it.
Which "they" are you talking about? The "they" in this case _do_ produce strategy games, if you want action games, try getting a company that _make_ action games to port their games. Or do you want game producers to sit and say "Oops, there are too many Linux games in that category already, we'll skip our port of our game to Linux until other genres are more represented..."?
If the Open Source (TM) community creates a better product for a better price without stealing any code, there's nothing wrong with that.
The problem is that the makers of VMWare apparently want to cover the costs through sales. Open source software usually has its costs "subsidized" by day-time jobs, parents, whatever. So the two aren't comparable.
(What you effectively are saying is that it's okay for Microsoft to produce a "free" Internet Explorer because they can pay for it out of the sales of other products, while Netscape - when the browser was their sole product - needed to cover the costs through sales of that product.)
A) one might assume that women who/are/ into porn, (on the majority, just so i don't alienate some people) aren't into Playboy or the like, for example, and...
Actually, Playboy is a bad example, since only about 10% of the magazine has "nekkid wimmin" - the rest are mostly insterviews and articles, very well worth reading.
Not to mention that their models are healthy and well-formed, and very little focus is given to genitalia - unless you count the "mammalian portruberences" (Zappa-term) as genitalia.
What it boils down to is that men's sexuality is more driven by the visual aspects than the female sexuality, and porn is normally expressed using visual media.
(Hum. Could musk-based perfume for men be called porn in the sense that its purpose is to arouse women?:-))
Yes, but when should you stop waiting for the next generation and actually purchase a card? And when the next one comes along, you are not likely to get a "free upgrade" in order to play the newest games.
Compare that to a PSX owner, who knew when they purchased the console (at a fraction of a PC's cost) that they would be able to play new games three to five years down the line, whereas the PC owner most likely would run into the "you need to purchase a $200 card for this game to be actually playable" trap.
(Or extra memory. And so on.)
It is cheaper to buy a new console five years after the first than to suffer from upgradaholism over a system that was costly in the first place.
... and in British English, aka. proper English, "fag" means cigarette. Perhaps "godhatesfags.com" should be assigned to a religious anti-smoking organization, and everyone would be happy?:-)
(Except the smokers, of course, but nobody can understand their incessant coughing anyway.:-P)
Yes, he wrote Unix - on a well-known and relatively simple computer. Traditional Unix vendors also delivered both a known hardware configuration and the operating system.
Linux, and the other PC Unixen, are a different story. They need to cater to a whole host of different hardware configurations, drivers, whatnot. Of course things will be less stable in such a situation when compared to a stable and well-documented hardware platform like, say, the DEC PDP series (chosen not entirely at random:-)).
Sort of, except it was implemented on DEC hardware, not IBM. It would be like if Linus had "ridden the anti-MS wagon" by writing Linux for the Amiga...:-)
One example, about Q1-Q2 1996: Winsock 1.1, 32-bit version. Micros~1 added a method, used this in Powerpoint '95 and a MS Outlook beta, this broke said programs for users with FTP Software's 32-bit Winsock 1.1 implementation, FTP and that company which oversaw Winsock development got pissed, MS had to retract and make patches to the two programs.
Or, more precisely, ASCII is a subset of ISO 646, IIRC.
X.400, or ISO MOTIS as it's also called, however is an ISO standard, which obviously has helped it in its battle against SMTP. I mean since it's an ISO standard you have thousands of fully compatible implementations, right? And nobody ever uses SMTP, which doesn't have this branding? (sarcasm)
Well, I Am Not A Lawyer, so I could not tell you. The answer is buried in the preceding sentence. This sentence, however, is irrelevant. And this sentence ends the paragraph.
Actually, reports indicate things aren't as rosy elsewhere either: For instance, in Japan young schoolgirls sell sex in order to purchase "in" clothes. And carreer pressure leads to a very high suicide rate among both sexes.
Oh, and did nobody tell you about British boarding schools?:-)
Note that the "international" title of "Fucking Åmål" will be mollified to "Show Me Love".
They're chickens, chickens I say.:-)
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But is the media non-visibility of other distributors the fault of Red Hat? Or do Caldera etc. fail to approach ZDNet and the others? The reason you see som much Red Hat coverage could be that, in reality, you are experiencing a "non-coverage" og other "brands", and interpret this wrongly.:-)
I seem to recall some media coverage of the release of OpenLinux 2.2, but if that's all the 'others' can muster, then Red Hat deserves to win the "exposure" race.
While the CORBA solution has embraced Java, it has not done so at the expense of other languages. In fact, Java is the only language for which CORBA supports binary portability. For other all other languages, CORBA is portable only at the source code level.
Um, pardon me but doesn't Python also use a VM underneath, so that.pyc files (in theory) are also "binary portable"?
I agree with you about the still-present language independence though: The events could go in this order:
Someone at OMG look as EJB and says: "My, what a nice model."
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Oh, the guns again... yes, how very democratic. I mean, if you're so illiterate that you can hardly read or write, you can still get your opinion across by sticking a gun into somebody's face. And I bet you won't take kindly to counter arguments, either.
If you need a gun to get your argument across, you've _lost_ the discussion. Completely.
Well, with the new law, such statements to the effect that the Government is wrong can be safely filtered away.
(I wonder if the Australian government has hired consultants from Malaysia and other equally "protective" nations in the region... :-))
Plus his stint as the gunslinging son to Gene Hackman's evil sheriff in Raimi's "The Quick and the Dead": At times, he really showed the fear/hatred mix when he was around Gene. And with all the controversy around "Basketball Diaries", that must also have had some qualities... though I haven't seen it.
Oh, you would be surprised at the number of A3000/A4000 systems out there running Scala for the multimedia info-channels for cable companies... :-)
Which "they" are you talking about? The "they" in this case _do_ produce strategy games, if you want action games, try getting a company that _make_ action games to port their games. Or do you want game producers to sit and say "Oops, there are too many Linux games in that category already, we'll skip our port of our game to Linux until other genres are more represented..."?
Yes, but then why not port AppleScript instead?
tell application 'Netscape' to open 'http://www.slashdot.org'
The problem is that the makers of VMWare apparently want to cover the costs through sales. Open source software usually has its costs "subsidized" by day-time jobs, parents, whatever. So the two aren't comparable.
(What you effectively are saying is that it's okay for Microsoft to produce a "free" Internet Explorer because they can pay for it out of the sales of other products, while Netscape - when the browser was their sole product - needed to cover the costs through sales of that product.)
As always the Dilbert Store is your friend, with watches, mugs and whatnot.
But then, Dilbert is more about nihilism than geekdom...
Actually, Playboy is a bad example, since only about 10% of the magazine has "nekkid wimmin" - the rest are mostly insterviews and articles, very well worth reading.
Not to mention that their models are healthy and well-formed, and very little focus is given to genitalia - unless you count the "mammalian portruberences" (Zappa-term) as genitalia.
What it boils down to is that men's sexuality is more driven by the visual aspects than the female sexuality, and porn is normally expressed using visual media.
(Hum. Could musk-based perfume for men be called porn in the sense that its purpose is to arouse women? :-))
Yes, but when should you stop waiting for the next generation and actually purchase a card? And when the next one comes along, you are not likely to get a "free upgrade" in order to play the newest games.
Compare that to a PSX owner, who knew when they purchased the console (at a fraction of a PC's cost) that they would be able to play new games three to five years down the line, whereas the PC owner most likely would run into the "you need to purchase a $200 card for this game to be actually playable" trap.
(Or extra memory. And so on.)
It is cheaper to buy a new console five years after the first than to suffer from upgradaholism over a system that was costly in the first place.
... and in British English, aka. proper English, "fag" means cigarette. Perhaps "godhatesfags.com" should be assigned to a religious anti-smoking organization, and everyone would be happy? :-)
:-P)
(Except the smokers, of course, but nobody can understand their incessant coughing anyway.
Yes, he wrote Unix - on a well-known and relatively simple computer. Traditional Unix vendors also delivered both a known hardware configuration and the operating system.
Linux, and the other PC Unixen, are a different story. They need to cater to a whole host of different hardware configurations, drivers, whatnot. Of course things will be less stable in such a situation when compared to a stable and well-documented hardware platform like, say, the DEC PDP series (chosen not entirely at random :-)).
Sort of, except it was implemented on DEC hardware, not IBM. It would be like if Linus had "ridden the anti-MS wagon" by writing Linux for the Amiga... :-)
One example, about Q1-Q2 1996: Winsock 1.1, 32-bit version. Micros~1 added a method, used this in Powerpoint '95 and a MS Outlook beta, this broke said programs for users with FTP Software's 32-bit Winsock 1.1 implementation, FTP and that company which oversaw Winsock development got pissed, MS had to retract and make patches to the two programs.
"Mercury Rising" is a better analogy, except in this case it was not an autistic kid who "broke" it. AFAIK. :-)
Or, more precisely, ASCII is a subset of ISO 646, IIRC.
X.400, or ISO MOTIS as it's also called, however is an ISO standard, which obviously has helped it in its battle against SMTP. I mean since it's an ISO standard you have thousands of fully compatible implementations, right? And nobody ever uses SMTP, which doesn't have this branding? (sarcasm)
Well, I Am Not A Lawyer, so I could not tell you. The answer is buried in the preceding sentence. This sentence, however, is irrelevant. And this sentence ends the paragraph.
Also, I seem to remember that they were members of OSF - the likenesses between Motif 1.0 and Windows 3 are telltale.
1,456,653 to one against, but that's pure guesswork on my part. :-P
I would also like to add Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad to the list of "required reading".
Actually, reports indicate things aren't as rosy elsewhere either: For instance, in Japan young schoolgirls sell sex in order to purchase "in" clothes. And carreer pressure leads to a very high suicide rate among both sexes.
:-)
Oh, and did nobody tell you about British boarding schools?
Note that the "international" title of "Fucking Åmål" will be mollified to "Show Me Love".
:-)
They're chickens, chickens I say.
But is the media non-visibility of other distributors the fault of Red Hat? Or do Caldera etc. fail to approach ZDNet and the others? The reason you see som much Red Hat coverage could be that, in reality, you are experiencing a "non-coverage" og other "brands", and interpret this wrongly. :-)
I seem to recall some media coverage of the release of OpenLinux 2.2, but if that's all the 'others' can muster, then Red Hat deserves to win the "exposure" race.
"What's all this about speech-recognition anyway? It will never be as effecient as using the keyboard anyway..."
Plus, how many years ago was it that Anirog produced the Voice Commander for C64? Fifteen or so? Has the technology been sleeping ever since?
Um, pardon me but doesn't Python also use a VM underneath, so that .pyc files (in theory) are also "binary portable"?
I agree with you about the still-present language independence though: The events could go in this order:
For modelling, yes, but IIRC there were articles at the time stating that LinuxAlpha was used for the (CPU-intensive) rendeing.
(And Sun/Solaris for Toy Story... notice a decisive lack of NT here? :-) )