No offense, but who the (insert favorite expletive) are you to decide what others need or should be allowed to buy at what time? I'm about to go visit my family--traditionally I end up doing computer-related things for them. I'm time constrained, and can't necessarily know what I need in advance so that I can buy when folks like you deign to have their stores open.
I'll cheerfully buy from Wal-Mart, thank you very much.
What happened to the notion of freedom, so rarely espoused or valued on Slashdot, of freedom from government intervention?
There's competition by making a better product, and there's competition by bombing your competitor's factory or lying about your competitor's product. The former is OK. The latter is not.
Look--I'm a libertarian, and would like nothing better than to see the government constrained to its proper role, but even libertarians object to the classic two improper actions, fraud and initiation of force. IMHO, MS has in at least one famous case (the bogus error message when Windows found itself running atop DR-DOS) engaged in fraud.
Not only that, but the artists get half of what you pay, not some miniscule percentage cut down by phony deductions such as for "lacquer breakage."
There is not a huge selection yet...
Agreed, but--in the field that I have a major interest in and a little knowledge of (early music), I can say that what they do have is damned good stuff.
Uh...there are roughly 3e7 seconds in a year, so if your claim is correct, that's about 6e29/3e7 = 2e22 emails per second. No offense, but I'm having a hard time believing that.
Microsoft did not "change their APIs". Sorry, that's just wrong. They did add a whole ton of new ones, and because IBM was not cloning the Windows API but got the code through an agreement with Microsoft, when it came out they couldn't keep up. No support for Win32 was added, and surprise surprise nothing worked anymore.
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a red herring, in view of the particular call they added that finally made IBM give up. The call allocated memory from the heap...but the semantics of the call required that the address of said memory be over the 512Mbyte limit on the address space of DOS programs running under OS/2. That limit was only eliminated a few years ago, long after it mattered.
Is there any good reason to insist that one get heap memory in a particular range of addresses? I can't think of one offhand. Did any program in the Win 3.1 era need more than 512 Mbytes of RAM? I doubt it. So what reason could there be for such a call, save to break Windows programs running under OS/2?
Yeah, but... if everything you bought were as labor intensive as housing, you wouldn't be able to buy everything you bought. Something like this is long overdue.
I've bought a couple of theose radios; one AM/FM, the other AM/FM/shortwave.
The generator starts to sound like it's grinding itself to metallic powder in fairly short order. I gave away one of them, so I don't know its fate now, but the AM/FM/shortwave one sits unused. It didn't take very long for whatever governs it so that the spring doesn't immediately unwind to break, so that if you wind it up, the knob turns at amazing speed, the mechanism sounds like you should do a bad imitation of Scotty and yell "She's gonna blow for sure, Captain!", and it unwinds itself in about one white-knuckled minute.
The radio circuitry is constrained by the power source and the need to not consume it quickly. No doubt ingle-conversion, poor image rejection. Analog dial that you can't tune with certainty, just like in the old days! The sound quality, though is very nice (which for SW means wide selectivity--ouch...).
I hasten to add that Freeplay has some far more sophisticated radio products these days, videthe Summit receiver.
Anyone who ever prevented Joan Collins from getting flattened by a street car deserves all they get.
Now, now...you have to remember that they didn't have much control over the Guardian, and hence they couldn't know about Dynasty or Empire of the Ants, though I bet that they were one reason Khan Noonian Singh was so sure he was superior.
No doubt he's hanging out on Monster Island, shamelessly spoiling his grandchildren (who are probably at the smoke ring blowing stage now) and swapping stories about the good old days with Gamera.
Panders to stereotypes about women a la the "Math is hard" Barbie. Seems to think women are vain creatures who want to be the Imelda Marcos of car seat covers. "The engine's on fire--quick, call the mechanic to open it up!" "That fender bender will run you $2000 to replace the one-piece front end..."
Yeah... BBC stands for Broadcasting from British Columbia, eh?
Seriously, as close as I can come to a phonetic transcription of how the English say "garage" is "GEH-ridge" (upper case denotes the accented syllable).
It is a big deal. SCO is basically now running a protection racket, and these folks knuckled under. That is fundamentally wrong.
"Then they came up with what they called the Other Other Operation, in which they would threaten to sue a Linux user if he did not buy a license. This, for the Piran^H^H^H^H^HMcBride brothers, was the turning point."
Graphics card makers refuse to release info allowing Open Source drivers to take full advantage of their hardware; heck, people gush over the major proctalgia of NVidia's driver that you get to recompile every time there's a kernel upgrade.
Now XFree86 decides to change its license in a way that is incompatible with GPL, so that Linux distributions refuse to use XFree86 4.4. The free alternatives (freedesktop.org, Y, etc.) need rewritten drivers. Does anyone think the hardware vendors will write multiple drivers when it's hard enough to pry one out of them?
PCI Express is on its way, and the claim is that it will kill AGP. How long will one be able to survive with a free X, or XFree86 4.3? (Not a rhetorical question; I don't know enough about the hardware to say, and really would like an answer.)
Eh? Elsewhere it's been said that drivers have to be rewritten for the freedesktop.org software, and I'm sure it has to be rewritten for Y. Graphics card makers are notorious for refusing to release the information required to allow open source drivers--suppose they refuse to write more than one version, and stick with XFree86? PCI Express will take over from AGP, if I read the chipset roadmap articles rightly just this morning...so if the manufacturers stick with providing binary-only drivers for XFree86, how will anyone, much less Granny, be able to use a free X?
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What?! I took a computer over to a friend's to try to help diagnose problems he was having with his cable modem. I'd just installed Fedora Core 1 on it, but took a monitor other than the one I'd used (a 17" ViewSonic versus a 21" Hitachi), and/etc/inittab was set to init level 5. I was royally screwed.
I've since been told how to escape from that situation, but ideally, just as Linux looks for new hardware during boot, it should look for a new monitor, and reconfigure X to suit. (A monitor is hardware, right?)
Yes, pinyin is as perverse as kunrei-shiki ("qi" pronounced "chi"....right...), but then, Wade romanization is brain dead, too, transliterating voiced consonants with their unvoiced equivalents and slapping on an apostrophe to get the unvoiced version.
It's a matter of etymology; "capella" is cognate to Spanish "cabra" and both descended from Latin.
In the case of "komon" versus "koumon" (or "koomon" or "k[o with a macron]mon"...), I'm sure it's also a question of etymology, but I don't know diddly about the etymology of Japanese words except for garaigo like "biiru" or "terebi".:)
(By the way...the fact that I remember those two words is a prime example of how well humor works as a pedagogic tool. Mr. Seward knows, and Leo Rosten (alevasholem) knew, that very well.)
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Nobody NEEDS a USB cable at 9:00PM.
No offense, but who the (insert favorite expletive) are you to decide what others need or should be allowed to buy at what time? I'm about to go visit my family--traditionally I end up doing computer-related things for them. I'm time constrained, and can't necessarily know what I need in advance so that I can buy when folks like you deign to have their stores open.
I'll cheerfully buy from Wal-Mart, thank you very much.
monopoly = monopoly is a situation where for technical or social reasons there cannot be more than one efficient provider of a good
I think that's what people call a "natural monopoly" rather than just a monopoly.
Color realism has gotten better with newer TV's to project more fleshy tones...
One always reads that pr0n is what drives media technology...
What happened to the notion of freedom, so rarely espoused or valued on Slashdot, of freedom from government intervention?
There's competition by making a better product, and there's competition by bombing your competitor's factory or lying about your competitor's product. The former is OK. The latter is not.
Look--I'm a libertarian, and would like nothing better than to see the government constrained to its proper role, but even libertarians object to the classic two improper actions, fraud and initiation of force. IMHO, MS has in at least one famous case (the bogus error message when Windows found itself running atop DR-DOS) engaged in fraud.
Pay as much as you want (within reason, natch').
Not only that, but the artists get half of what you pay, not some miniscule percentage cut down by phony deductions such as for "lacquer breakage."
There is not a huge selection yet...
Agreed, but--in the field that I have a major interest in and a little knowledge of (early music), I can say that what they do have is damned good stuff.
Uh...there are roughly 3e7 seconds in a year, so if your claim is correct, that's about 6e29/3e7 = 2e22 emails per second. No offense, but I'm having a hard time believing that.
Microsoft did not "change their APIs". Sorry, that's just wrong. They did add a whole ton of new ones, and because IBM was not cloning the Windows API but got the code through an agreement with Microsoft, when it came out they couldn't keep up. No support for Win32 was added, and surprise surprise nothing worked anymore.
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a red herring, in view of the particular call they added that finally made IBM give up. The call allocated memory from the heap...but the semantics of the call required that the address of said memory be over the 512Mbyte limit on the address space of DOS programs running under OS/2. That limit was only eliminated a few years ago, long after it mattered.
Is there any good reason to insist that one get heap memory in a particular range of addresses? I can't think of one offhand. Did any program in the Win 3.1 era need more than 512 Mbytes of RAM? I doubt it. So what reason could there be for such a call, save to break Windows programs running under OS/2?
It just doesn't have the same ring to shout
Where are we going? SEDNA!
When are we going? REAL SOON!
No, no, you didn't finish the couplet...
"A new religion that'll bring Bill to his knees
Black Penguin, if you please..."
Yeah, but... if everything you bought were as labor intensive as housing, you wouldn't be able to buy everything you bought. Something like this is long overdue.
I've bought a couple of theose radios; one AM/FM, the other AM/FM/shortwave.
The generator starts to sound like it's grinding itself to metallic powder in fairly short order. I gave away one of them, so I don't know its fate now, but the AM/FM/shortwave one sits unused. It didn't take very long for whatever governs it so that the spring doesn't immediately unwind to break, so that if you wind it up, the knob turns at amazing speed, the mechanism sounds like you should do a bad imitation of Scotty and yell "She's gonna blow for sure, Captain!", and it unwinds itself in about one white-knuckled minute.
The radio circuitry is constrained by the power source and the need to not consume it quickly. No doubt ingle-conversion, poor image rejection. Analog dial that you can't tune with certainty, just like in the old days! The sound quality, though is very nice (which for SW means wide selectivity--ouch...).
I hasten to add that Freeplay has some far more sophisticated radio products these days, vide the Summit receiver.
Anyone who ever prevented Joan Collins from getting flattened by a street car deserves all they get.
Now, now...you have to remember that they didn't have much control over the Guardian, and hence they couldn't know about Dynasty or Empire of the Ants, though I bet that they were one reason Khan Noonian Singh was so sure he was superior.
No doubt he's hanging out on Monster Island, shamelessly spoiling his grandchildren (who are probably at the smoke ring blowing stage now) and swapping stories about the good old days with Gamera.
Panders to stereotypes about women a la the "Math is hard" Barbie.
Seems to think women are vain creatures who want to be the Imelda Marcos of car seat covers.
"The engine's on fire--quick, call the mechanic to open it up!"
"That fender bender will run you $2000 to replace the one-piece front end..."
Yeah... BBC stands for Broadcasting from British Columbia, eh?
Seriously, as close as I can come to a phonetic transcription of how the English say "garage" is "GEH-ridge" (upper case denotes the accented syllable).
It's never safe to assume the courts will do the right thing.
No kidding...they ruled much of McCain-Feingold constitutional.
So this is what computer programmers do in their spare time - program computers! WooHoo!
You should qualify that; it's what good programmers do in their spare time.
"Thank ye, Sir! It'll give me time to catch up on my technical journals!" --Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott, "The Trouble with Tribbles," ST:TOS
I think it's a fan of P.J. Plauger, who writes some good SF and respectable C libraries.
It is a big deal. SCO is basically now running a protection racket, and these folks knuckled under. That is fundamentally wrong.
"Then they came up with what they called the Other Other Operation, in which they would threaten to sue a Linux user if he did not buy a license. This, for the Piran^H^H^H^H^HMcBride brothers, was the turning point."
Yes, indeed. Thanks!
Isn't MS laughing over this whole affair?
Graphics card makers refuse to release info allowing Open Source drivers to take full advantage of their hardware; heck, people gush over the major proctalgia of NVidia's driver that you get to recompile every time there's a kernel upgrade.
Now XFree86 decides to change its license in a way that is incompatible with GPL, so that Linux distributions refuse to use XFree86 4.4. The free alternatives (freedesktop.org, Y, etc.) need rewritten drivers. Does anyone think the hardware vendors will write multiple drivers when it's hard enough to pry one out of them?
PCI Express is on its way, and the claim is that it will kill AGP. How long will one be able to survive with a free X, or XFree86 4.3? (Not a rhetorical question; I don't know enough about the hardware to say, and really would like an answer.)
Eh? Elsewhere it's been said that drivers have to be rewritten for the freedesktop.org software, and I'm sure it has to be rewritten for Y. Graphics card makers are notorious for refusing to release the information required to allow open source drivers--suppose they refuse to write more than one version, and stick with XFree86? PCI Express will take over from AGP, if I read the chipset roadmap articles rightly just this morning...so if the manufacturers stick with providing binary-only drivers for XFree86, how will anyone, much less Granny, be able to use a free X?
What?! I took a computer over to a friend's to try to help diagnose problems he was having with his cable modem. I'd just installed Fedora Core 1 on it, but took a monitor other than the one I'd used (a 17" ViewSonic versus a 21" Hitachi), and /etc/inittab was set to init level 5. I was royally screwed.
I've since been told how to escape from that situation, but ideally, just as Linux looks for new hardware during boot, it should look for a new monitor, and reconfigure X to suit. (A monitor is hardware, right?)
Dunno, you might be right.
Yes, pinyin is as perverse as kunrei-shiki ("qi" pronounced "chi"....right...), but then, Wade romanization is brain dead, too, transliterating voiced consonants with their unvoiced equivalents and slapping on an apostrophe to get the unvoiced version.
It's a matter of etymology; "capella" is cognate to Spanish "cabra" and both descended from Latin.
:)
In the case of "komon" versus "koumon" (or "koomon" or "k[o with a macron]mon"...), I'm sure it's also a question of etymology, but I don't know diddly about the etymology of Japanese words except for garaigo like "biiru" or "terebi".
(By the way...the fact that I remember those two words is a prime example of how well humor works as a pedagogic tool. Mr. Seward knows, and Leo Rosten (alevasholem) knew, that very well.)