I had Sparcstation 5 (NOT Ultra 5) for 4 years. First, I've replaced a 100Mhz CPU with 170Mhz. Next I got some extra memory (164MB instead of 64). I got rid of CDE and installed FVWM instead. Finally I got a 3rd party graphic adapter ('frame buffer'), also very fast. All this made the performance quite acceptable. Now of course it is finally at the end of its life cycle (and I've moved to a different company anyway)
As far as OOP is concerned, that is a number of language far better than C++, by 'better' I mean more compact, consistent, and less confusing. Why bother with C++ then? I"ve been hearing 'because it inforces the programming's discipline whereas C doesn't. Give me a break. A lack of programming discipline is something you can't just inforce with a particular language, right to the contrary, a language such as C++ or Perl, both feature rich and both confusing as hell don't do anything toward better programming discipline. In short, C++ is abomination. A crime against nature.
I remember taking Chryzalids from the Public Library. Roughly at the same time I've picked up the CD 'Crown of Creation' from Jefferson Airplane. (heard it long time ago on LP, then was waiting for CD). I read Chryzalids for a while, then started listening Crown of Creation. To my amazement I've realized that the song 'Crown of Creation' actually used the words from Chryzalids. In Chryzalids: 'In loyality to their kind they cannot tolerate our mind, in loyality ot our kind we cannot tolerate their obstruction'. In Crown of Creation it is something very similar. Then again the same phrase: 'Life is change. That's how it differs from the rocks'. It happened 10 years ago. I still remember that. Coincidences like this can really blow your mind. To the best of my knowledge, noone every detected that Crown of Creation uses the words from Chryzalids. If you're not familiar with this CD, pick it up, this is probably the top of Jefferson Airplane and one of the best examples of psycodelic rock. (another example of Jefferson Airplance quoting classics is a song Rejoyce with quotes from Ulysses) Wyndham is the excellent writers. The day of Triffids is another novel worth reading. 'Cracatit (sp?) is another really good one.
Bob Metcalf has greatly contributed to networking by inventing Ethernet but since then he's been making lots of non-sensical statements (like his numerous predictions on forthcoming 'Internet meltdown', just to remind people he was still alive. He simply doesn't have a clue.
Sony 'MP3 player' cannot play MP3 files in its native format. The only format Sony player understands is their proprietory ATRAC3. Software which comes with Sony player allows conversion from MP3to ATRAC3, however there were some postings claiming that after the conversion the quality of sound noticably degrades. In addition, SDMI is a real pain-in-the-butt feature. I would rather go with a player capable of playing MP3, no SDMI, and may be Liquid Audio (*.lqt) format as an option.
Hey, how about 'Stockhold syndrom'? Ever heard of that one? A kidnapped forms the attachment with his/her kidnapper? Note that this is mostly kidnapped who gets attached. As to kidnapper, he doesn't give a fscking sh*t. This will be a bit closer to the situation we're discussing. Cheers,
a processor should augment us, ultimately it should interact direct with our brains. It should enhance our memory (keep lots of information on its database), computational abilities, whatever...
this is a patronizing attitude about minorities which is propagated by bleeding heart liberals, and frankly it stinks. not only it assumes the minorities are somehow less intelligent, it also propagates the notion of 'two levels of education'. PhD in bullshit, so to speak, nothing serious. Would you go to a doctor qualified via a Lego-building skills? Fly on an airplane build by engineer educated the same way? The end result is devaluation of University degrees.
I don't care how well-intension this thing is. We should be free of censorship and the right to a free speech must be protected. To outlaw something we don't like is our instinctive reaction. It is easy to implement. It also doesn't solve anything. The fight against the racism cannot be done but outlowing the racism. It does require certain activites from those who want to fact. Unfortunately these are the racists who are more active on Internet than those who oppose them. Incidently I'm not a racist not because I am sort of tree-hugging liberal or whatever. I simply consider the evolution the fact (rather than something you have to *believe*), and that we all share the same common ancestors somewhere in Africa. From this perspective all races share the same genetic pool, the differences are on 'species' level. You certainly don't have to love another race, its culture, whatever. The serious error is to consider that other race *inferior* to the one you belong, which *is* what the racism holds. Cheers,
OK, you are certainly deserved to be heard. This is a democratic society, and so your right to a free speech is protected. In this respect, I am ready to defend your right even if I am entirely disagree with National Socialism (as well as with Communism). The caveat here - as history has demonstrated - is then as soon as National Socialists (or Communists) come to power, one of the right which is instantly eliminated is that very right of a free speech. I am against the totalitarism of any flavor, left, right, white, black, yellow, or whatever... Regards,
You know, someone has managed to build rel 12 on Solaris. Pull the binaries rel 12, everything was documented in README file. You need to have GTK libraries. I'm not sure if you need GCC 2.95.2 or something like 2.7 or 2.8 would work. If you really want to do your own build, try to go through the same procedure. I've tried rel 12 on Sol 7. Incredibly fast rendering engine. The fonts were tiny, couldn't change them with pull-down menus. Browsed fine for about 20 minutes, then crashed.
It is not just PR, IBM is becoming quite different compared with what they've used to be 10-15 years ago. They are still in a process of defining themselves though.
A simple thing: do not buy. Ask the seller explicitly whether CD's are copy-protected non Red Book compliant. Let's hope this format will follow DIVX. Let those greedy bastards shoot themself in a foot. Cheers,
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You can't polish the turd.
I had Sparcstation 5 (NOT Ultra 5) for 4 years. First, I've replaced a 100Mhz CPU with 170Mhz. Next I got some extra memory (164MB instead of 64). I got rid of CDE and installed FVWM instead. Finally I got a 3rd party graphic adapter ('frame buffer'), also very fast. All this made the performance quite acceptable. Now of course it is finally at the end of its life cycle (and I've moved to a different company anyway)
I realize this is a troll, yet - very unfortunately - this does look like a typical /. response. Cheers,
which can be found where?
As far as OOP is concerned, that is a number of language far better than C++, by 'better' I mean more compact, consistent, and less confusing. Why bother with C++ then? I"ve been hearing 'because it inforces the programming's discipline whereas C doesn't. Give me a break. A lack of programming discipline is something you can't just inforce with a particular language, right to the contrary, a language such as C++ or Perl, both feature rich and both confusing as hell don't do anything toward better programming discipline. In short, C++ is abomination. A crime against nature.
I remember taking Chryzalids from the Public Library. Roughly at the same time I've picked up the CD 'Crown of Creation' from Jefferson Airplane. (heard it long time ago on LP, then was waiting for CD). I read Chryzalids for a while, then started listening Crown of Creation. To my amazement I've realized that the song 'Crown of Creation' actually used the words from Chryzalids. In Chryzalids: 'In loyality to their kind they cannot tolerate our mind, in loyality ot our kind we cannot tolerate their obstruction'. In Crown of Creation it is something very similar. Then again the same phrase: 'Life is change. That's how it differs from the rocks'. It happened 10 years ago. I still remember that. Coincidences like this can really blow your mind. To the best of my knowledge, noone every detected that Crown of Creation uses the words from Chryzalids. If you're not familiar with this CD, pick it up, this is probably the top of Jefferson Airplane and one of the best examples of psycodelic rock. (another example of Jefferson Airplance quoting classics is a song Rejoyce with quotes from Ulysses) Wyndham is the excellent writers. The day of Triffids is another novel worth reading. 'Cracatit (sp?) is another really good one.
it is a development release, stupid. learn before you post.
I see them coming ...
Well, we already have RMS-Linux (aka GNU/Linux), so why not MS-Linux?
I trust french even less than Microsoft.
would make a full-length movie ...
I believe in Jesus because the Bible says Jesus is the Son of God.
Bob Metcalf has greatly contributed to networking by inventing Ethernet but since then he's been making lots of non-sensical statements (like his numerous predictions on forthcoming 'Internet meltdown', just to remind people he was still alive. He simply doesn't have a clue.
Sony 'MP3 player' cannot play MP3 files in its native format. The only format Sony player understands is their proprietory ATRAC3. Software which comes with Sony player allows conversion from MP3to ATRAC3, however there were some postings claiming that after the conversion the quality of sound noticably degrades. In addition, SDMI is a real pain-in-the-butt feature. I would rather go with a player capable of playing MP3, no SDMI, and may be Liquid Audio (*.lqt) format as an option.
Hey, how about 'Stockhold syndrom'? Ever heard of that one? A kidnapped forms the attachment with his/her kidnapper? Note that this is mostly kidnapped who gets attached. As to kidnapper, he doesn't give a fscking sh*t. This will be a bit closer to the situation we're discussing. Cheers,
I eat hot grits for breakfast
that 83.79523% of all the surveys state their results with completely unwarranted claims of precision ...
a processor should augment us, ultimately it should interact direct with our brains. It should enhance our memory (keep lots of information on its database), computational abilities, whatever ...
this is a patronizing attitude about minorities which is propagated by bleeding heart liberals, and frankly it stinks. not only it assumes the minorities are somehow less intelligent, it also propagates the notion of 'two levels of education'. PhD in bullshit, so to speak, nothing serious. Would you go to a doctor qualified via a Lego-building skills? Fly on an airplane build by engineer educated the same way? The end result is devaluation of University degrees.
I don't care how well-intension this thing is. We should be free of censorship and the right to a free speech must be protected. To outlaw something we don't like is our instinctive reaction. It is easy to implement. It also doesn't solve anything. The fight against the racism cannot be done but outlowing the racism. It does require certain activites from those who want to fact. Unfortunately these are the racists who are more active on Internet than those who oppose them. Incidently I'm not a racist not because I am sort of tree-hugging liberal or whatever. I simply consider the evolution the fact (rather than something you have to *believe*), and that we all share the same common ancestors somewhere in Africa. From this perspective all races share the same genetic pool, the differences are on 'species' level. You certainly don't have to love another race, its culture, whatever. The serious error is to consider that other race *inferior* to the one you belong, which *is* what the racism holds. Cheers,
OK, you are certainly deserved to be heard. This is a democratic society, and so your right to a free speech is protected. In this respect, I am ready to defend your right even if I am entirely disagree with National Socialism (as well as with Communism). The caveat here - as history has demonstrated - is then as soon as National Socialists (or Communists) come to power, one of the right which is instantly eliminated is that very right of a free speech. I am against the totalitarism of any flavor, left, right, white, black, yellow, or whatever ... Regards,
You know, someone has managed to build rel 12 on Solaris. Pull the binaries rel 12, everything was documented in README file. You need to have GTK libraries. I'm not sure if you need GCC 2.95.2 or something like 2.7 or 2.8 would work. If you really want to do your own build, try to go through the same procedure. I've tried rel 12 on Sol 7. Incredibly fast rendering engine. The fonts were tiny, couldn't change them with pull-down menus. Browsed fine for about 20 minutes, then crashed.
It is not just PR, IBM is becoming quite different compared with what they've used to be 10-15 years ago. They are still in a process of defining themselves though.
A simple thing: do not buy. Ask the seller explicitly whether CD's are copy-protected non Red Book compliant. Let's hope this format will follow DIVX. Let those greedy bastards shoot themself in a foot. Cheers,
No, 47G means '47 Grands' 47B means '47 Bucks'