Linux will never achieve a significant market share in the corporate desktop market so long as it lacks a version of MS Office.
Sure it lacks Microsoft® Brand Office, but it has another brand of Office, the StarOffice suite from Sun Microsystems. Still binary, but at least it's free beer. So go download it and get liquored up:-)
You mean "turn, and your ship keeps going in the same velocity (speed + direction) it was going before you turned"? Heck, even fsckin' Asteroids had that. Nevertheless, the best strategy for Asteroids was _not_ to use the thrust key (or the reverse thrust key on some clones).
I think it is remarkable that Phillip W. Katz was that he had never tried to enforce his patent(s) on the compression algorithm behide zip file formats.
He probably donated the.zip rights to the public domain because he didn't want another SEA ARC fiasco.
is that it should support your platform. Most cameras don't support one or more of the following: BeOS, Mac OS Classic, Mac OS 10, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU/Linux, and Solaris. If you're on a Unix-like system, check the gPhoto compatibility list before you buy.
What about frame lag on that old Vitamins game, where you had to drop pills on the viruses to kill^H^H^H^Hdestroy them? I don't recall any lag on that.
I'd suggest the G400 if you're a Linux user. Plenty fast enough for games, plus it works great under XF86. Won't cost more than $150. If you're buying $50 games, you can afford a $150 video card. Yeah, the Pentium III is expensive, but you don't get high performance from a $35 CPU.
Or a Pentium III. Try an Athlon system; a fella gets more for less.
Anyway, I'm fscking tired of paying $1,000 a year to buy new hardware. If developers keep making games need the CPU and RAM of a major portal's servers and video good enough to render Toy Story 2 in real time, why aren't there games that will run on a lowly 200 MHz Pentium? I'd guess game firms are in bed with hardware manufacturers. But why?
It doesn't have to be this way. Game firms can gain market share by developing something other than a me-too first person shooter. A good game design will create more fun than a Beowulf cluster of all the Cray and Apple supercomputers in the world. And here are some games to prove it:
in the UK, if I type "yell", I want it to go www.yell.co.uk and not to www.yell.com. There should be an ordered list of domain extensions it should look at which the user can re-order, add to, delete from.
Then add "co.uk" in your domain search path. I'm not booted into Windows at the moment, but in GNU/Linux it's in/etc/resolv.conf.
From the name, it looks like Apple Computer Inc. could run that one (quicktime.mov anyone?). Heck, QuickTime uses.mov for its clips, and MPEG 4 is based on QT. Let's just hope that some non-Sorenson content is available.
I say "slash daht, dahdorg" for slashdot.org, and everybody knows what I mean. Of course, I speak American, a fork of the English language that preserves around 98% compatibility; "slash daht, dahdorg" depends on the American mapping from sounds to letters and may need some patching to get it to work in pure English interpreters.
There would then have to be some law against using a.com address for adult material. (I'm sure that won't fly!)
It might if the IANA or whatever writes it into a domain registration company's TOS.
Who isn't tired of getting stuff like "GENNIFER FLOWERS NAKED!!!!!!!!!" when trying to find a place to order flowers online?
People who use the Google search engine don't have to put up with pr0n spamming the index because Google counts links to the pages. Links from directories like Yahoo! and Open Directory carry a bit more weight because more pages link to them. Here are Google results for florist and flowers. GoogleScout (find similar pages) is your friend.
How would you tell top level domains from local-domain host names? Where I am there is a machine solomon.cs.rose-hulman.edu (it's the news server), and if someone registered "solomon.cs" how would DNS here at Rose distinguish the two hosts?
One clear example here is Java vs. C++. Sure, Java is much slower than C++; but developing something in Java takes orders of magnitude less time than in C++. So, it is better to throw money at hardware to cure the performance problem, but will get you to market sooner, than code in C++, which results in faster code, but takes much longer.
Can Java servlets be compiled into native code like Java apps? If so, they'll be as fast as any C++, C++++, etc. module.
Some synthesizers are called "programmable" with note sequences. Many can store their sequences in standard MIDI format (*.mid; *.kar; *.rmi). Tools like Timidity can "compile" these MIDIs into *.wav, and even a really lame encoder can "link" the results into "executable" MP3 files. So we have a "Program" that can be released under the GNU GPL; draw your own conclusions.
MP3.com already has a model like this. It's called D.A.M. for Digital Automatic Music. User downloads MP3s; user likes band; user buys $10 CD from MP3.com; artists gets half.
AMP3.com already has a pay-per-view model: each download pays an artist 5c of advertisers' money.
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I'm gonna want to listen to it at my friends place, on my stereo system, and in my car. Can't do that with my MP3's (as they stand now anyway).
By "now" you mean "today." In May, a new product will be released that changes this. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo no. X. It's a Discman-like CD player that plays both Red Book (standard uncompressed format) and MPEG Audio Layer 3 (Fraunhofer's popular compressed format). The RIAA doesn't want CDs you burned for your Mambo-X player to replace their $20 media, only 20c of which goes to the artist.
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Try right-clicking an empty area of the Windows® 98 taskbar and choosing Toolbars > Address. Now click in the address box (you may need to make your taskbar bigger) and type \windows\system and notice how Windows changes backslashes to forward slashes. The only reason Windows uses \ instead of / is bug compatibility with MS-DOS 1.0, which used / instead of - to specify option switches on the command line. When subdirectories, device drivers, and other features imitating Unix® were hacked into DOS 2, the Unix-like / directory separator was already taken, so they had to use \. Anyway, DOS is perfectly happy if apps pass it / (command.com blocks it because of the option problem), and it's the default for the DOS Bourne Again Shell, part of the DJGPP port of GNU.
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Linux will never achieve a significant market share in the corporate desktop market so long as it lacks a version of MS Office.
Sure it lacks Microsoft® Brand Office, but it has another brand of Office, the StarOffice suite from Sun Microsystems. Still binary, but at least it's free beer. So go download it and get liquored up :-)
People who have been using Word will still buy Word, people who have been using IE will still use IE.
That is, provided Sun-Netscape Alliance doesn't start an aggressive marketing campaign for StarOffice and Moz^H^H^HNetscape Communicator 6.
Further, it is still to each Baby Bill's advantage to simply license software to one another; nothing has changed
That's potentially illegal price discrimination, unless they're also licensing everything to users at the same price.
You mean "turn, and your ship keeps going in the same velocity (speed + direction) it was going before you turned"? Heck, even fsckin' Asteroids had that. Nevertheless, the best strategy for Asteroids was _not_ to use the thrust key (or the reverse thrust key on some clones).
I think it is remarkable that Phillip W. Katz was that he had never tried to enforce his patent(s) on the compression algorithm behide zip file formats.
He probably donated the .zip rights to the public domain because he didn't want another SEA ARC fiasco.
is that it should support your platform. Most cameras don't support one or more of the following: BeOS, Mac OS Classic, Mac OS 10, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU/Linux, and Solaris. If you're on a Unix-like system, check the gPhoto compatibility list before you buy.
What about frame lag on that old Vitamins game, where you had to drop pills on the viruses to kill^H^H^H^Hdestroy them? I don't recall any lag on that.
I'd suggest the G400 if you're a Linux user. Plenty fast enough for games, plus it works great under XF86. Won't cost more than $150. If you're buying $50 games, you can afford a $150 video card. Yeah, the Pentium III is expensive, but you don't get high performance from a $35 CPU.
Or a Pentium III. Try an Athlon system; a fella gets more for less.
Anyway, I'm fscking tired of paying $1,000 a year to buy new hardware. If developers keep making games need the CPU and RAM of a major portal's servers and video good enough to render Toy Story 2 in real time, why aren't there games that will run on a lowly 200 MHz Pentium? I'd guess game firms are in bed with hardware manufacturers. But why?
It doesn't have to be this way. Game firms can gain market share by developing something other than a me-too first person shooter. A good game design will create more fun than a Beowulf cluster of all the Cray and Apple supercomputers in the world. And here are some games to prove it:until... web browser include http servers in their scripting language...
Done. Emacs-W3 is a web browser, and an Elisp http server has been posted above.
so warez kiddies can setup their own http servers really easily
Heck, they could use the WinApache server for that.
If the site isn't especially new, it may already be mirrored at Google.
in the UK, if I type "yell", I want it to go www.yell.co.uk and not to www.yell.com. There should be an ordered list of domain extensions it should look at which the user can re-order, add to, delete from.
Then add "co.uk" in your domain search path. I'm not booted into Windows at the moment, but in GNU/Linux it's in /etc/resolv.conf.
The .us domain is the only one more screwed up than .net and .org
If the State of Colorado would give up its domain space like the Kingdom of Tonga (*.to) did, we'd have *.co.us like *.co.uk.
From the name, it looks like Apple Computer Inc. could run that one (quicktime.mov anyone?). Heck, QuickTime uses .mov for its clips, and MPEG 4 is based on QT. Let's just hope that some non-Sorenson content is available.
I say "slash daht, dahdorg" for slashdot.org, and everybody knows what I mean. Of course, I speak American, a fork of the English language that preserves around 98% compatibility; "slash daht, dahdorg" depends on the American mapping from sounds to letters and may need some patching to get it to work in pure English interpreters.
hell yes Im tired of that crap. Every time you hit a search engine, regardless of what you type, 99% of the hits returned are pr0n sites. AUGH!!
Never happened to me when using the Google search engine.
There would then have to be some law against using a .com address for adult material. (I'm sure that won't fly!)
It might if the IANA or whatever writes it into a domain registration company's TOS.
Who isn't tired of getting stuff like "GENNIFER FLOWERS NAKED!!!!!!!!!" when trying to find a place to order flowers online?
People who use the Google search engine don't have to put up with pr0n spamming the index because Google counts links to the pages. Links from directories like Yahoo! and Open Directory carry a bit more weight because more pages link to them. Here are Google results for florist and flowers. GoogleScout (find similar pages) is your friend.
How would you tell top level domains from local-domain host names? Where I am there is a machine solomon.cs.rose-hulman.edu (it's the news server), and if someone registered "solomon.cs" how would DNS here at Rose distinguish the two hosts?
One clear example here is Java vs. C++. Sure, Java is much slower than C++; but developing something in Java takes orders of magnitude less time than in C++. So, it is better to throw money at hardware to cure the performance problem, but will get you to market sooner, than code in C++, which results in faster code, but takes much longer.
Can Java servlets be compiled into native code like Java apps? If so, they'll be as fast as any C++, C++++, etc. module.
Some synthesizers are called "programmable" with note sequences. Many can store their sequences in standard MIDI format (*.mid; *.kar; *.rmi). Tools like Timidity can "compile" these MIDIs into *.wav, and even a really lame encoder can "link" the results into "executable" MP3 files. So we have a "Program" that can be released under the GNU GPL; draw your own conclusions.
MP3.com already has a model like this. It's called D.A.M. for Digital Automatic Music. User downloads MP3s; user likes band; user buys $10 CD from MP3.com; artists gets half.
AMP3.com already has a pay-per-view model: each download pays an artist 5c of advertisers' money.
I'm gonna want to listen to it at my friends place, on my stereo system, and in my car. Can't do that with my MP3's (as they stand now anyway).
By "now" you mean "today." In May, a new product will be released that changes this. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo no. X. It's a Discman-like CD player that plays both Red Book (standard uncompressed format) and MPEG Audio Layer 3 (Fraunhofer's popular compressed format). The RIAA doesn't want CDs you burned for your Mambo-X player to replace their $20 media, only 20c of which goes to the artist.
You too can make decent-sounding music...with the Jazz++ MIDI sequencer and the TiMidity MIDI renderer/player. Here's a techno piece I've done.
http:\\slashdot.org\
Try right-clicking an empty area of the Windows® 98 taskbar and choosing Toolbars > Address. Now click in the address box (you may need to make your taskbar bigger) and type \windows\system and notice how Windows changes backslashes to forward slashes. The only reason Windows uses \ instead of / is bug compatibility with MS-DOS 1.0, which used / instead of - to specify option switches on the command line. When subdirectories, device drivers, and other features imitating Unix® were hacked into DOS 2, the Unix-like / directory separator was already taken, so they had to use \. Anyway, DOS is perfectly happy if apps pass it / (command.com blocks it because of the option problem), and it's the default for the DOS Bourne Again Shell, part of the DJGPP port of GNU.
Okay, how about a couple of new moderations like "Me too"
There's already one: "Redundant"
"First post" "Not that goddamn Kevin Mtnick film guy again" "Not that goatse.cx guy again" "Grits" "portman"
"Offtopic"
"Insulting CmdrTaco"
"Offensive"
"Karma whore"
Possibly "Overrated" if at 3 or higher already.
Summary: If the text of a post does not relate to the article, the post is Offtopic and should be moderated as such. At least that's how I see it.
I'm waiting to see a case against M$ for copying the ideas for Nibbles
Nibbles copied TRON, didn't it?