XMPP isn't broken like that; a given ID is able to have multiple "resources", which can represent different client instances, among other things. Even AIM allows multiple connections these days, but since it doesn't have any facility like this, things get a little hairy sometimes:)
What the hell? You don't need to improve ActivePerl at all. You just need to improve the rest of your system, by installing a suitable C compiler. Okay, yeah, it might be slightly nice if ActiveState were to provide a compatible environment for download side-by-side, but I certainly don't think it needs to be default. PPM is more in line with what "windows people" expect anyway:)
Here's another suggestion... Gimp for Win32 has a plugin loader that allows most (windows) Photoshop plugins to operate. Would it be possible to rig up a system similar to MPlayer's plugin loader which would allow these plugins to work on other x86 systems? The main issue would seem to me to be library dependencies; AV codecs are generally easy because they just do a lot of math without calling out to any other libraries; I don't know how true this is of photoshop plugins. Anyone able to clue me in?
Except that if it was up to Richard, we'd still be waiting to be able to boot the GNU system on more than two pieces of hardware. I'll take Linus on the "actions speak louder" principle. Which, if you think about it, applies perfectly well to this hotspot thing. It's about standing up for a certain standard (in this case, internet service) by demonstrating what you want and embodying the change and yadda yadda yadda.
That reminds me of Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, which I thought was pretty amusing... but then again I didn't really like the book, and I didn't learn anything about Ruby; I just know a lot more about Starmonkeys, cartoon foxes, and why addiction is like Pokemon.
Absolutely not. We already have the technology to "hit a bullet with a bullet" as everyone likes to say. They're called surface to air missiles, and they easily bring down supersonic aircraft. Why this system has never worked I don't know
Because a missile is hypersonic (multiple km/s) rather than supersonic? Because it's a considerably smaller target than an airplane and does a better job of hiding? Because at a cost of "only" millions of dollars, you can throw a whole mess of them at a target in hopes that one will get through? Because a "mission kill" requires more than just exploding close enough to throw some shrapnel into a wing?
"Perfectly adequate for most users" maybe, but still not sensible for almost anyone, because if you were buying the hardware from someone other than apple you could get twice the processor power, twice the RAM, and twice the hard drive for that price -- or you could get similar functionality for $150 less.
OS X is decent, but it's not really that hot. It's really pretty comparable to, say, Windows XP, except that it comes with bash. And the UI seems designed to confuse. I think the KDE team has executed on most of Apple's ideas better than Apple has. And then there's performance issues. Have you seen how slow fork() is on OS X, or how pathetically it manages its disk cache. I suppose it isn't really worse than Windows, but there are plenty of unices that do better, including modern Linux. So other than a few apps from unenlightened vendors who think that "Mac only" is better than cross-platform, what do you gain?
There are other things than "settlements" in the legal book of remedies;)
In any case, never forget that corporations are created by the power of government, and exert their influence through the government. Given an uncorrupt government (heh heh) without an interest in meddling in business to any end (hack, cough), the "big corps" wouldn't be anything special at all.
Just FYI, you're running the same version of mplayer; everything after that dash is the version of GCC used to compile that build. But it is entirely possible that you've got different build options; a number of the different codec options depend on libraries available at compile-time.
This wastes as much disk space as you have RAM (the contents of RAM is going to be in your swap space as well as in your suspend-to-disk file)
This bit doesn't make any sense. First off, by default (and as the only option with the code in mainline), the swap is the suspend file. There isn't anything wasted or stored twice, because the only pages to be stored are the important ones; not unused pages, and not pages that are already backed by the disk (including swap). So it's mostly equivalent to option 2. Sure, it does reload all of those pages at boot time, but I figure it's mostly for simplicity. And it really does only take a few seconds.
OS X is irrelevant. Support is irrelevant. You will be upgraded. Your hardware and software distinctiveness will be removed. You will exist to buy Intel.
Getting offtopic, but I use this to my advantage when the Yankees games are on. I'll go outside and listen to the game on the radio, but leave the game on the TV (satellite service) as well. If something really interesting goes on I have time to run in and catch it on the TV. Not the rerun, the original thing. The difference between the radio feed going out straight from WCBS in NY and the TV signal bouncing off of who knows how many satellites is about 8 seconds, in my estimation.
I agree that it's sad to see this, the beginning of the end of the original shuttle program.
Yes, the sad part is that we didn't see the end of the end of the original shuttle program a lot of years ago. So old, so wasteful, and as we've seen, considerably more likely to explode (or tear itself apart due to extreme and unexpected stress) than it really should have been.
Of course this is a good thing because if they hadn't made him Captain, they wouldn't have been able to canonicalize the character of Demora Sulu from Peter David's "The Captain's Daughter";)
And with that said, what's wrong with the gnome file dialog? They're certainly better thant the old (old old) GTK one...
The fact that they're not nearly as good as the old old GTK ones:)
The old GTK file dialogs were perfect, besides the matter of their default size (which let you see about two characters of each filename). The split-pane view was good, the text-entry box had magical tab completion that was just awsome, and everything was fast and simple. The new GNOMish dialogs in 2.recent are complicated and slow. I don't even get a damn box to type into, except for the magical "popup" one that doesn't provide nearly as much useful feedback as the old-style one. Opening a file is a noticeably slower and more painful task. The only plusses are the more reasonable size and the "handy places" on the left.
This is getting off the topic a bit, but it's very important to avoid the passive voice in formal writing, and I don't blame the system at all for yelling at you. What would be good, however, would be "tuning options" for different writing styles, like Grammatik had.
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I thought that was "shit adds up at the bottom" ;)
XMPP isn't broken like that; a given ID is able to have multiple "resources", which can represent different client instances, among other things. Even AIM allows multiple connections these days, but since it doesn't have any facility like this, things get a little hairy sometimes :)
Or you could use Gaim with the OTR plugin and use real encryption that's actually suited to an IM environment with equally little effort ;)
What the hell? You don't need to improve ActivePerl at all. You just need to improve the rest of your system, by installing a suitable C compiler. Okay, yeah, it might be slightly nice if ActiveState were to provide a compatible environment for download side-by-side, but I certainly don't think it needs to be default. PPM is more in line with what "windows people" expect anyway :)
If IBM actually makes the chips, probably not so long. They're not Broadcom, y'know :)
Here's another suggestion... Gimp for Win32 has a plugin loader that allows most (windows) Photoshop plugins to operate. Would it be possible to rig up a system similar to MPlayer's plugin loader which would allow these plugins to work on other x86 systems? The main issue would seem to me to be library dependencies; AV codecs are generally easy because they just do a lot of math without calling out to any other libraries; I don't know how true this is of photoshop plugins. Anyone able to clue me in?
Except that if it was up to Richard, we'd still be waiting to be able to boot the GNU system on more than two pieces of hardware. I'll take Linus on the "actions speak louder" principle. Which, if you think about it, applies perfectly well to this hotspot thing. It's about standing up for a certain standard (in this case, internet service) by demonstrating what you want and embodying the change and yadda yadda yadda.
That reminds me of Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, which I thought was pretty amusing... but then again I didn't really like the book, and I didn't learn anything about Ruby; I just know a lot more about Starmonkeys, cartoon foxes, and why addiction is like Pokemon.
Absolutely not. We already have the technology to "hit a bullet with a bullet" as everyone likes to say. They're called surface to air missiles, and they easily bring down supersonic aircraft. Why this system has never worked I don't know
Because a missile is hypersonic (multiple km/s) rather than supersonic? Because it's a considerably smaller target than an airplane and does a better job of hiding? Because at a cost of "only" millions of dollars, you can throw a whole mess of them at a target in hopes that one will get through? Because a "mission kill" requires more than just exploding close enough to throw some shrapnel into a wing?
It's overpriced, but it's affordable? It's an alternative but there's no reason to choose it?
"Perfectly adequate for most users" maybe, but still not sensible for almost anyone, because if you were buying the hardware from someone other than apple you could get twice the processor power, twice the RAM, and twice the hard drive for that price -- or you could get similar functionality for $150 less.
OS X is decent, but it's not really that hot. It's really pretty comparable to, say, Windows XP, except that it comes with bash. And the UI seems designed to confuse. I think the KDE team has executed on most of Apple's ideas better than Apple has. And then there's performance issues. Have you seen how slow fork() is on OS X, or how pathetically it manages its disk cache. I suppose it isn't really worse than Windows, but there are plenty of unices that do better, including modern Linux. So other than a few apps from unenlightened vendors who think that "Mac only" is better than cross-platform, what do you gain?
There are other things than "settlements" in the legal book of remedies ;)
In any case, never forget that corporations are created by the power of government, and exert their influence through the government. Given an uncorrupt government (heh heh) without an interest in meddling in business to any end (hack, cough), the "big corps" wouldn't be anything special at all.
That this research wasn't actually by behavioral psychologist Sascha Baron Cohen ?
Just FYI, you're running the same version of mplayer; everything after that dash is the version of GCC used to compile that build. But it is entirely possible that you've got different build options; a number of the different codec options depend on libraries available at compile-time.
This wastes as much disk space as you have RAM (the contents of RAM is going to be in your swap space as well as in your suspend-to-disk file)
This bit doesn't make any sense. First off, by default (and as the only option with the code in mainline), the swap is the suspend file. There isn't anything wasted or stored twice, because the only pages to be stored are the important ones; not unused pages, and not pages that are already backed by the disk (including swap). So it's mostly equivalent to option 2. Sure, it does reload all of those pages at boot time, but I figure it's mostly for simplicity. And it really does only take a few seconds.
Oh come on, everyone knows that Rimmer is a hologram, Holly is male, and Kryten never happened.
OS X is irrelevant. Support is irrelevant. You will be upgraded. Your hardware and software distinctiveness will be removed. You will exist to buy Intel.
Getting offtopic, but I use this to my advantage when the Yankees games are on. I'll go outside and listen to the game on the radio, but leave the game on the TV (satellite service) as well. If something really interesting goes on I have time to run in and catch it on the TV. Not the rerun, the original thing. The difference between the radio feed going out straight from WCBS in NY and the TV signal bouncing off of who knows how many satellites is about 8 seconds, in my estimation.
We could use that. As far as I can tell there's more myth than fact out there when it comes to those folks.
I agree that it's sad to see this, the beginning of the end of the original shuttle program.
Yes, the sad part is that we didn't see the end of the end of the original shuttle program a lot of years ago. So old, so wasteful, and as we've seen, considerably more likely to explode (or tear itself apart due to extreme and unexpected stress) than it really should have been.
Windows certainly fails 1 and 2. In fact, I don't think a 'modern computing platform' exists according to your specs.
Redundant.
Of course this is a good thing because if they hadn't made him Captain, they wouldn't have been able to canonicalize the character of Demora Sulu from Peter David's "The Captain's Daughter" ;)
And with that said, what's wrong with the gnome file dialog? They're certainly better thant the old (old old) GTK one...
:)
The fact that they're not nearly as good as the old old GTK ones
The old GTK file dialogs were perfect, besides the matter of their default size (which let you see about two characters of each filename). The split-pane view was good, the text-entry box had magical tab completion that was just awsome, and everything was fast and simple. The new GNOMish dialogs in 2.recent are complicated and slow. I don't even get a damn box to type into, except for the magical "popup" one that doesn't provide nearly as much useful feedback as the old-style one. Opening a file is a noticeably slower and more painful task. The only plusses are the more reasonable size and the "handy places" on the left.
This is getting off the topic a bit, but it's very important to avoid the passive voice in formal writing, and I don't blame the system at all for yelling at you. What would be good, however, would be "tuning options" for different writing styles, like Grammatik had.