Some would say that 50% is better than OS X where it is probably 80% or higher.
I'd be interested in exactly where you got that 80% from.
I've had OSX at home for two years now, and in that time, its had one kernel panic, caused by an early version of fink.
At work, I was using Win2k until following a catastrophic crash, which wasn't a regular experience but still wasn't out of the ordinary, I had to run chkdsk four times before I could get the thing to boot. The filesystem was so badly corrupted that it was, as far as I could see, beyond repair. After that, I installed FreeBSD, and haven't looked back.
Long story short, there's no way, IMHO, that Win2k or any other flavour of Windows is more stable than OSX.
Cardinal: Now, old woman, you are accused of spamming on three counts: spamming by thought, spamming by word, spamming by deed, and spamming by action - four counts. Do you confess?
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Cardinal: Now, old lady, you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of spamming, reject the works of the spammers - two last chances. And you shall be free - three last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.
This is a good idea, in principle, but I don't see how it can work. The Opera and MSN deliberate screw-up, as I understand it, was possible because of the browser-ident header that is sent with every request. I don't know for certain, but I'd doubt that Gator modifies the requests sent from a machine, to inform the outside world that it is present. It seems to me that, like many parasitic organisms, its success lies in remaining hidden.
I thought all DXs had an FPU. I had a 386sx16 with 4 megs of RAM, and I lusted after a DX. I managed to get Win95 running on it, but it was so slow that it took several seconds between the mouse being moved and the pointer responding. I remember there being a 'performance' control panel applet that was supposed to offer suggestions to tweak a bit more speed out of machines, all it told me was to get more memory.
or other sound/graphics chip that I do not recall the name of
The sound chip on the C64 was the SID chip, standing for Sound Interface Device. Amazing sound for the time, especially when compared to the tinny beep of the ZX Spectrum.
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I agree with you. As a customer of theirs, I don't feel like I've been treated particularly well by them.
In the last year, I've spent more than $200 in total on an OS upgrade, and a subscription to the email service that was free when I bought my Mac and signed up for it. I might just about be able to think that this was ok, if it weren't for the fact that Apple now seem to be refusing to release a firmware update for my 5-Gig iPod, despite (from what I hear) there being no reason for withholding it, other than to force me into buying a new one. I bought one of the first iPods to be sold in this country and now Apple, in order to milk more money out of me, is punishing me for being an early-adopter.
I don't think that I'll be buying Panther, and I'm seriously considering not renewing my.mac subscription. Enough is enough.
The thing I like about the Activity Monitor is the 'export' button. That's the mail app icon. I can't think of a single time that I've ever wanted to email a process listing to anyone, but it's comforting to know that, if I ever get the urge, it's just a click away.
The first Borland IDE that had anything like the integration between the GUI and the code, as VB did, was Delphi. Before that the IDE was basically a source-code editor with a few bells and whistles. Delphi wasn't introduced until after VB3 was released. Before that, GUI development in Windows, using Borland tools, was mostly straight Win16 API stuff, or using Object Windows Library (OWL). OWL was a lot better than MFC at the time, but it was still a pain to build an app using it, as everything had to be connected by hand. In those days, there was no such thing as a visual development environment for C/C++ (that I know of).
I wasn't saying that MS invented Basic. Basic had been around for decades before MS existed. My point was that MS did something original, in the way they tightly integrated the GUI designer and the code, in VB.
I could be wrong, but I thought that Visual Basic was invented within MS. IIRC it was originally called Ruby. In it's day, it was innovative. I've heard suggestions that it ripped off HyperCard, to a certain extent, but I've never seen or used HyperCard, so I can't comment on that.
That's my being nice about Microsoft done for the year.
I agree. It looks like a really awkward construction. The best way to deal with it, I've found, is to do this:
virtual void foo() = NULL;
To me, that says that the position for that method in the class vtable is NULL. Sort of making what's happening explicit. That wouldn't please the folks that prefer using 0 to using NULL, but it works for me.
I also used to prefer using the void keyword to indicate that the function or method took no parameters, but I've been using Java for the last few years, so I've gotten out of that habit.
Who says that it's incalculable, and where's the evidence to back that up? My point was that it's easy enough to sit back and say that something's impossible, but it takes a bit more effort to try and figure out whether it's (maybe just remotely) possible.
You're whining that the odds are too big, but it's guys like Stanley Miller that are trying to figure out exactly how big those odds are.
You might want to actually provide some facts as to why Carl Sagan was wrong, rather than make an ad hominem attack. Most truly academic scientists generally take a bit more convincing than just being told that, "The guy was an asshole, so he must be wrong."
In fifty years time, when Microsoft are in charge of the planet, they won't be asking you to change your last name, they'll be telling you that they've already changed your entire name to a 256-character, globally unique identifier. For your convenience, of course, and at a very reasonable fee of M$50 (MicroSerfian dollaroonies), which, again for your convenience, they've already deducted from your (compulsory) Bank of Microsoft account. As a result of this unexpected deduction, your account will go M$1 overdrawn, and this will mean that they are entitled to immediate vacant possession of your home. When you query this, it will be pointed out that this entitlement was clearly detailed in 2-point font, on page 437 (that's about one-third of the way in) of the click-through agreement that you read, understood, and click-through-agreed to when opening your (compulsory) Bank of Microsoft account. At the time that this is pointed out, your attention will be drawn to the clause on page 442 that they are also entitled to one of every major organ that you have two of. This includes (but is not limited to) your lungs, kidneys and, at the discretion of the Microsoft legal department (formerly known as the US Department of Justice), your testicles. They will gladly help you to pay for the operation to remove these organs, by the extension of a small loan, repayable in 7200 monthly payments that, for your convenience, will exactly match your monthly salary. You will be responsible for the shipping of at least two of your children to the secure holding facility at Redmond, where they will be held as collateral for the duration of the loan.
I have my terminal windows set to 60% transparency in OSX, because it can be useful to see the contents of one window whilst working in another, without having to tab between them, or jiggle them about.
Transparency isn't something that should be applied to all windows, but for certain tasks, and provided that the level of transparency is configurable, it can be useful.
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Some would say that 50% is better than OS X where it is probably 80% or higher.
I'd be interested in exactly where you got that 80% from.
I've had OSX at home for two years now, and in that time, its had one kernel panic, caused by an early version of fink.
At work, I was using Win2k until following a catastrophic crash, which wasn't a regular experience but still wasn't out of the ordinary, I had to run chkdsk four times before I could get the thing to boot. The filesystem was so badly corrupted that it was, as far as I could see, beyond repair. After that, I installed FreeBSD, and haven't looked back.
Long story short, there's no way, IMHO, that Win2k or any other flavour of Windows is more stable than OSX.
very few Slashdot submitters or editors show basic competance
That would be competence.
It's the spanish inquisition all over again.
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Cardinal: Now, old woman, you are accused of spamming on three counts: spamming by thought, spamming by word, spamming by deed, and spamming by action - four counts. Do you confess?
Cardinal: Now, old lady, you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of spamming, reject the works of the spammers - two last chances. And you shall be free - three last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.
This is a good idea, in principle, but I don't see how it can work. The Opera and MSN deliberate screw-up, as I understand it, was possible because of the browser-ident header that is sent with every request. I don't know for certain, but I'd doubt that Gator modifies the requests sent from a machine, to inform the outside world that it is present. It seems to me that, like many parasitic organisms, its success lies in remaining hidden.
I thought all DXs had an FPU. I had a 386sx16 with 4 megs of RAM, and I lusted after a DX. I managed to get Win95 running on it, but it was so slow that it took several seconds between the mouse being moved and the pointer responding. I remember there being a 'performance' control panel applet that was supposed to offer suggestions to tweak a bit more speed out of machines, all it told me was to get more memory.
or other sound/graphics chip that I do not recall the name of
The sound chip on the C64 was the SID chip, standing for Sound Interface Device. Amazing sound for the time, especially when compared to the tinny beep of the ZX Spectrum.
I agree with you. As a customer of theirs, I don't feel like I've been treated particularly well by them.
.mac subscription. Enough is enough.
In the last year, I've spent more than $200 in total on an OS upgrade, and a subscription to the email service that was free when I bought my Mac and signed up for it. I might just about be able to think that this was ok, if it weren't for the fact that Apple now seem to be refusing to release a firmware update for my 5-Gig iPod, despite (from what I hear) there being no reason for withholding it, other than to force me into buying a new one. I bought one of the first iPods to be sold in this country and now Apple, in order to milk more money out of me, is punishing me for being an early-adopter.
I don't think that I'll be buying Panther, and I'm seriously considering not renewing my
The thing I like about the Activity Monitor is the 'export' button. That's the mail app icon. I can't think of a single time that I've ever wanted to email a process listing to anyone, but it's comforting to know that, if I ever get the urge, it's just a click away.
Fake, but a pretty one.
Wow! You're still sitting there? I remember reading this exact same post a few weeks ago. That is a long time to transfer a 17meg file.
You're obviously right about Macs being cr*p. As soon as I get home, I'm going to throw mine away.
I can't believe that I used to like my Mac.
Don't think so.
The first Borland IDE that had anything like the integration between the GUI and the code, as VB did, was Delphi. Before that the IDE was basically a source-code editor with a few bells and whistles. Delphi wasn't introduced until after VB3 was released. Before that, GUI development in Windows, using Borland tools, was mostly straight Win16 API stuff, or using Object Windows Library (OWL). OWL was a lot better than MFC at the time, but it was still a pain to build an app using it, as everything had to be connected by hand. In those days, there was no such thing as a visual development environment for C/C++ (that I know of).
I wasn't saying that MS invented Basic. Basic had been around for decades before MS existed. My point was that MS did something original, in the way they tightly integrated the GUI designer and the code, in VB.
I could be wrong, but I thought that Visual Basic was invented within MS. IIRC it was originally called Ruby. In it's day, it was innovative. I've heard suggestions that it ripped off HyperCard, to a certain extent, but I've never seen or used HyperCard, so I can't comment on that.
That's my being nice about Microsoft done for the year.
He did kick me up the arse!
Ted: That money was resting in my account.
Dougal: Right. A good long rest.
4. ???
I'm just checking with my legal department, but I think that I may have IP-rights for step 4.
How the heck did this get moderated as informative and insightful? It's full of links to slashdot pages that don't exist.
If somebody's embedded false links in their post, doesn't that cast some doubt on the rest of the information that they've provided?
I agree. It looks like a really awkward construction. The best way to deal with it, I've found, is to do this:
virtual void foo() = NULL;
To me, that says that the position for that method in the class vtable is NULL. Sort of making what's happening explicit. That wouldn't please the folks that prefer using 0 to using NULL, but it works for me.
I also used to prefer using the void keyword to indicate that the function or method took no parameters, but I've been using Java for the last few years, so I've gotten out of that habit.
how do you calculate the incalculable?
Who says that it's incalculable, and where's the evidence to back that up? My point was that it's easy enough to sit back and say that something's impossible, but it takes a bit more effort to try and figure out whether it's (maybe just remotely) possible.
You're whining that the odds are too big, but it's guys like Stanley Miller that are trying to figure out exactly how big those odds are.
You might want to actually provide some facts as to why Carl Sagan was wrong, rather than make an ad hominem attack. Most truly academic scientists generally take a bit more convincing than just being told that, "The guy was an asshole, so he must be wrong."
That's how it starts.
In fifty years time, when Microsoft are in charge of the planet, they won't be asking you to change your last name, they'll be telling you that they've already changed your entire name to a 256-character, globally unique identifier. For your convenience, of course, and at a very reasonable fee of M$50 (MicroSerfian dollaroonies), which, again for your convenience, they've already deducted from your (compulsory) Bank of Microsoft account. As a result of this unexpected deduction, your account will go M$1 overdrawn, and this will mean that they are entitled to immediate vacant possession of your home. When you query this, it will be pointed out that this entitlement was clearly detailed in 2-point font, on page 437 (that's about one-third of the way in) of the click-through agreement that you read, understood, and click-through-agreed to when opening your (compulsory) Bank of Microsoft account. At the time that this is pointed out, your attention will be drawn to the clause on page 442 that they are also entitled to one of every major organ that you have two of. This includes (but is not limited to) your lungs, kidneys and, at the discretion of the Microsoft legal department (formerly known as the US Department of Justice), your testicles. They will gladly help you to pay for the operation to remove these organs, by the extension of a small loan, repayable in 7200 monthly payments that, for your convenience, will exactly match your monthly salary. You will be responsible for the shipping of at least two of your children to the secure holding facility at Redmond, where they will be held as collateral for the duration of the loan.
Where do you want to go today?
It reminds me of Visual Basic for DOS. VB-DOS was around at the same time as VB1.
This sounds like Robert Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchy.
all major UNIX platforms are covered
Except for the most widely distributed UNIX platform.
I have my terminal windows set to 60% transparency in OSX, because it can be useful to see the contents of one window whilst working in another, without having to tab between them, or jiggle them about.
Transparency isn't something that should be applied to all windows, but for certain tasks, and provided that the level of transparency is configurable, it can be useful.
A Distributed Denial Of Sleep attack.
Intel does not give one nuclear frog fuck about the life of their processors.
I think that the nuclear frog fuck should become the standard unit of measurement of disinterest.