Re:Many fields left where Linux is unsuitable
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Where are you getting the "hundreds of thousands of dollars" figure? RenderMan compliant renderers start at free, and go up to a few thousand. You may want to check out aqsis, if you are interested in renderman, but don't want to spend money on a license... As for competant modelling and animation software priced for the hobbyist, there is less that is so impressive, which is why you hear so much about Blender.
Both had odd architectures. The Genesis also had two CPU's. But, what really killed them is that they weren't two of the same! They had different chips that did different things. Imagine having a Power PC and an Athlon is one box, and trying to write an efficient program that would load balance between the two! not fun!
Re:As an editor...
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When I am able, I try to read things backwards. My brain doesn't remember the flow of the words that way, and will examine each word individually, and I go, "wait, I don't remember using the word fiend on that page..." Everybody's brain works different, so some experimentation with how you read is the best way to find what works for you. foudn.
Re:How lightweight, if it requires gtk+?
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Mod this man up!!!
All your base are belong to twm. In soviet russia, the TV watched old koreans using twm while they put hot grits somewhere, and so on. twm is petrified.
Seriously, short of ratpoison or mwm, it is just about the lightest WM you can use, still works fine, has no dependencies, takes negligible disk space, you probably already have it installed if you have X. I've never understoof what people have against twm. You can even change the colors of the base configuration doesn't strike you as flamboyant enough...
Okay. I have a fair amount of experience with OS's. Solaris (SPARC and X86), Linux, Windows, OS X, old Mac OS, Irix...
Fundamentally, I agree with you. I like it when I have small utilitues that do small things very well. I've burned a lot of CD's using cdrecord, for example. (Mainly to make boot CD's for my dreamcast - I have yet to find a slick integrated monolithic GUI app that makes developing boot CD's for obscure platforms a convenient thing...)
- where application are monolithic big irons the you must install from 1 if not many CDs. They're huge integrated monsters that should be self-sufisant (or that's what the marketing compagny thinks). And if you want to do something different : it's either "Sorry our GUI isn't intented for this. And we cannot waste ressource on some obscure feature that only 1% of our market share is interested in" (Windows World) or "Look ! It's incredible ! You can actually launch individual functions of our applications from your scripts ! The Mac invented the wheel !" (Apple style)
Now, let us ponder for a moment... Not everything is done best by small command line utilities. For example. Let's suppose that you have PowerPoint, or a PowerPoint type clone. It makes sense for it to be a fairly monolithic app. But, it also makes sense to be able to script your presentations.
The Windows way would involve VB. So, no right thinking person need consider the Windows way.
The Linux way would involve exposing as much as possible of the GUI to the command line. Possibly inventing some sort of scripting language. It would sloiw development, because it would require substantial resources to impliment well, and keep current with the GUI, and make all GUI functionality available to the command line API.
The Mac way would, naturally, be AppleScript. The develoiper doesn't need to make a bunch of little utilities to go along with his monolithic app. He doesn't need to maintain an API. Adding Applescript requires a tiny amount of work for a native app. It exposes large amounts of functionality conveniently. In the hypothetical presentation app, it would be trivial to allow the scripts to set a presentation to have as many slides as there are images in a directory, and add text on the slides extracted from EXIF data in the JPEG's, and then overlay some lines and such, and set random transitions between them all.
Sure, you could just use ImageMagik to add text on top of the slides, and add some graphical elements, and save them out as a different set of JPEG's, but if that isn't what you want to do, it doesn't help you. Sometimes you really want to use a monolithic app because it is the right tool for the job, and no amount of chanting UNIX mantras will cause your spplications to change into something else, and more than a Windows user chanting his mantras will turn sed, awk, and teco into a monolithic friendly GUI application.
By having a sane systemwide scripting language, you have the ability to make use of those monolithic GUI apps, and still use the little utilities (in my above example, you would probably use a "classical" command line utility to get the EXIF data to tell the presentation program to put on the slide)
Well, compare the availability of software on the Mac to the availability of software for an embedded device that won't let the user install any software... Seriously, everything I do, I can do on a Mac. apt-get and vi both run on OS-X. Oh, and X11.
Don't laugh... I still have to deal with NT4, Novell, and Os/2 Warp systems at work. Our Windows servers run every Windows from NT4 to Server 2k3, except ME. We just expanded into a new office, and now our users in the new office can't access stuff off the OS/2 server. Unfortunately, nobody currently with the company has ever done anything with OS/2, so we aren't 100% sure how to fix it...
Please, don't give me pity. give me a swift boot to the head.
Does myth TV work with Firewire video hardware? I have been having the exact same thought... Of course, I'd also need video out, but that shouldn't be too hard with firewire...
Also, VideoLAN client works with Mac OS X. Ooooh. I will probably use my BT878 in my video server running VLC, and stream to the Mini Mac... As soon as I can get a refurb open-box mini mac for $399, anyway.:)
What else would evolving the language mean? If a construct is already correct standard English, then using it does nothing to advance the language. All language evolution comes from incorrect use. That, or inventing new words, but that isn't a substantial form of language evolution because the structure doesn't change, and new words don't normally invalidate old ones.
I agree with your reaction however, the things I see make me think people are idiots. Even worser idiots than myself.
Because the 802.11n standard doesn't exist yet, and could change radically before it is finalized, rendering this current Belkin equipment completely useless for talking to anything but itself at "n speeds"
A little googling brought me here, http://www.cyberpunk2020.de/
This seems to be a pretty informative site aboute the current release. Any players care to talk about the previous CyberPunk games, and what makes them so special?
Well, we do talk about Ebola. Granted, we usually talk about the Ebola virus. (using an article when we use the word virus). HIV is an odd case, because it doesn't have a common name that doesn't include the word virus as part of the name. So, when we use HIV in simplest form, it is HIV. When we use "ebola virus" in simplest form, it is just "ebola." So, there is a logical argument that it could be considered correct to say either "HIV" or "the HIV." Personally, I always talk about HIV, no article.
I played a lot of scholastic bowl in high school, and I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on your claim that l;ag won't be an issue. A tenth of a second can be a motherfucker. That said, it's soluble. In this context, it doesn't matter who rings first. It matters who rings with th least delay after seeing the question. So, my suggestion would be to have a small program that displays the question to the players, and starts a local timer as soon as the question is displayed. As soon as somebody rings in, you send a message back to the server with the amount of delay. Whoever was "first" is called on by the moderator, and given a chance to answer.
Fairly easy to do with a little Java app, or any language like that, and a little socket programming.
As for the video... Would Video Lan Client work for something like this? I've never tried to use it over the 'Net, but it works great on my home LAN, runs on almost anything, and will play from a live video source, and will do transcoding on the fly. What more could you ask for?
Somebody at NASA said, "hey, odds are good that this will last longer than six months if everything goes well, but we are sending it to another planet, and we don't know how big of an issue dust accumulation is going to be, and there are dozens of other factors we can't control."
Somebody else at NASA said, "Well, if we say it was supposed to last for six months, and it lasts for seven, we are just doing our jobs. If it lasts for five, we have a public relations disaster. If we call it three, which we damn well know isn't a problem, when it exceeds our actual estimate of six months, we will be motherfucking heros, and chicks will be all over us."
The first guy said, "my mom already thinks I'm cool," and they decided to go with an easy estimate that they were sure the rover would survive, rather then a less confident estimate that only applied if everything went well.
I used cromulent in papers in high school. I also convinced my teachers it was completely valid. The best thing about english is that all the words are made up, so it is actually quite valid.
i wish I still had a copy of, "Our Most Cromulent Amendments : A Musical"
Well, Apple refers to the Installer files as packages, but the actual app just as Installer, and doesn't refer to package management, or anything. So, I guess "package installer" is a better term.
Indeed. If I could either get a free torrent with ads in it, or (less ideally) a $1.00 per episode legal torrent download, I'd real seriously consider it. It would have to be International, though. I like ReGenesis (Canadian), Hex (British), BattleStar Galactica (Airing in England), and a few others. At $5 per week, I'd be spending $20 bucks a month, but I'd be getting the shows I want to watch, and I'd be able to watch them whenever the hell I feel like it, and it would be a no-brainer to archive the video files on my server, so I can rewatch the episodes. (Given the fact that people would probably download and archive, it probably makes sense to have a few ads, and charge enormous rates for the ads in a free download, given that the ads will be watched many times, by a worldwide audience, with easy access for the viewers...)
OS X also has a package manager, which IMHO, is much more trustworthy than an executable installer. My only real complaint is that so many MAc OS X packages insist on being installed on the main drive. That makes me sad.
Don't worry, they are running on an 18 bit minicomputer. They can handle 256 thousand passengers before they get angry at the programmer! Good solid PDP-8, or something.:)
On one of the old PBS Math programs, possibly Sol Garfunkle's show, they did a piece on the crew assignment problem. They tried to feed a simplified version of the problem into a massive mainframe, which ran out of memory, and they were never able to get an answer out of it. Granted, this was probably in the 80's, when a massive system had multiple megawords of core, but it impressed me none-the-less!
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Where are you getting the "hundreds of thousands of dollars" figure? RenderMan compliant renderers start at free, and go up to a few thousand. You may want to check out aqsis, if you are interested in renderman, but don't want to spend money on a license... As for competant modelling and animation software priced for the hobbyist, there is less that is so impressive, which is why you hear so much about Blender.
Both had odd architectures. The Genesis also had two CPU's. But, what really killed them is that they weren't two of the same! They had different chips that did different things. Imagine having a Power PC and an Athlon is one box, and trying to write an efficient program that would load balance between the two! not fun!
When I am able, I try to read things backwards. My brain doesn't remember the flow of the words that way, and will examine each word individually, and I go, "wait, I don't remember using the word fiend on that page..." Everybody's brain works different, so some experimentation with how you read is the best way to find what works for you. foudn.
Mod this man up!!!
All your base are belong to twm. In soviet russia, the TV watched old koreans using twm while they put hot grits somewhere, and so on. twm is petrified.
Seriously, short of ratpoison or mwm, it is just about the lightest WM you can use, still works fine, has no dependencies, takes negligible disk space, you probably already have it installed if you have X. I've never understoof what people have against twm. You can even change the colors of the base configuration doesn't strike you as flamboyant enough...
Fundamentally, I agree with you. I like it when I have small utilitues that do small things very well. I've burned a lot of CD's using cdrecord, for example. (Mainly to make boot CD's for my dreamcast - I have yet to find a slick integrated monolithic GUI app that makes developing boot CD's for obscure platforms a convenient thing...)
Now, let us ponder for a moment... Not everything is done best by small command line utilities. For example. Let's suppose that you have PowerPoint, or a PowerPoint type clone. It makes sense for it to be a fairly monolithic app. But, it also makes sense to be able to script your presentations.
The Windows way would involve VB. So, no right thinking person need consider the Windows way.
The Linux way would involve exposing as much as possible of the GUI to the command line. Possibly inventing some sort of scripting language. It would sloiw development, because it would require substantial resources to impliment well, and keep current with the GUI, and make all GUI functionality available to the command line API.
The Mac way would, naturally, be AppleScript. The develoiper doesn't need to make a bunch of little utilities to go along with his monolithic app. He doesn't need to maintain an API. Adding Applescript requires a tiny amount of work for a native app. It exposes large amounts of functionality conveniently. In the hypothetical presentation app, it would be trivial to allow the scripts to set a presentation to have as many slides as there are images in a directory, and add text on the slides extracted from EXIF data in the JPEG's, and then overlay some lines and such, and set random transitions between them all.
Sure, you could just use ImageMagik to add text on top of the slides, and add some graphical elements, and save them out as a different set of JPEG's, but if that isn't what you want to do, it doesn't help you. Sometimes you really want to use a monolithic app because it is the right tool for the job, and no amount of chanting UNIX mantras will cause your spplications to change into something else, and more than a Windows user chanting his mantras will turn sed, awk, and teco into a monolithic friendly GUI application.
By having a sane systemwide scripting language, you have the ability to make use of those monolithic GUI apps, and still use the little utilities (in my above example, you would probably use a "classical" command line utility to get the EXIF data to tell the presentation program to put on the slide)
Well, compare the availability of software on the Mac to the availability of software for an embedded device that won't let the user install any software... Seriously, everything I do, I can do on a Mac. apt-get and vi both run on OS-X. Oh, and X11.
You have no memory. We have always been at war with the Eurasians.
I think you mean, "Death rays don't kill people, unless they are turned on."
Don't laugh... I still have to deal with NT4, Novell, and Os/2 Warp systems at work. Our Windows servers run every Windows from NT4 to Server 2k3, except ME. We just expanded into a new office, and now our users in the new office can't access stuff off the OS/2 server. Unfortunately, nobody currently with the company has ever done anything with OS/2, so we aren't 100% sure how to fix it...
Please, don't give me pity. give me a swift boot to the head.
Does myth TV work with Firewire video hardware? I have been having the exact same thought... Of course, I'd also need video out, but that shouldn't be too hard with firewire...
:)
Also, VideoLAN client works with Mac OS X. Ooooh. I will probably use my BT878 in my video server running VLC, and stream to the Mini Mac... As soon as I can get a refurb open-box mini mac for $399, anyway.
What else would evolving the language mean? If a construct is already correct standard English, then using it does nothing to advance the language. All language evolution comes from incorrect use. That, or inventing new words, but that isn't a substantial form of language evolution because the structure doesn't change, and new words don't normally invalidate old ones.
I agree with your reaction however, the things I see make me think people are idiots. Even worser idiots than myself.
Because the 802.11n standard doesn't exist yet, and could change radically before it is finalized, rendering this current Belkin equipment completely useless for talking to anything but itself at "n speeds"
A little googling brought me here, http://www.cyberpunk2020.de/
This seems to be a pretty informative site aboute the current release. Any players care to talk about the previous CyberPunk games, and what makes them so special?
Makes you feel real eager to hop on a dramatically more complex Mars mission with no resupply for two years, doesn't it? Space engineering is hard.
Well, we do talk about Ebola. Granted, we usually talk about the Ebola virus. (using an article when we use the word virus). HIV is an odd case, because it doesn't have a common name that doesn't include the word virus as part of the name. So, when we use HIV in simplest form, it is HIV. When we use "ebola virus" in simplest form, it is just "ebola." So, there is a logical argument that it could be considered correct to say either "HIV" or "the HIV." Personally, I always talk about HIV, no article.
I played a lot of scholastic bowl in high school, and I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on your claim that l;ag won't be an issue. A tenth of a second can be a motherfucker. That said, it's soluble. In this context, it doesn't matter who rings first. It matters who rings with th least delay after seeing the question. So, my suggestion would be to have a small program that displays the question to the players, and starts a local timer as soon as the question is displayed. As soon as somebody rings in, you send a message back to the server with the amount of delay. Whoever was "first" is called on by the moderator, and given a chance to answer.
Fairly easy to do with a little Java app, or any language like that, and a little socket programming.
As for the video... Would Video Lan Client work for something like this? I've never tried to use it over the 'Net, but it works great on my home LAN, runs on almost anything, and will play from a live video source, and will do transcoding on the fly. What more could you ask for?
Okay, so how many slashdotters remember when alta vista was just a dgital subdomain?
Somebody at NASA said, "hey, odds are good that this will last longer than six months if everything goes well, but we are sending it to another planet, and we don't know how big of an issue dust accumulation is going to be, and there are dozens of other factors we can't control."
Somebody else at NASA said, "Well, if we say it was supposed to last for six months, and it lasts for seven, we are just doing our jobs. If it lasts for five, we have a public relations disaster. If we call it three, which we damn well know isn't a problem, when it exceeds our actual estimate of six months, we will be motherfucking heros, and chicks will be all over us."
The first guy said, "my mom already thinks I'm cool," and they decided to go with an easy estimate that they were sure the rover would survive, rather then a less confident estimate that only applied if everything went well.
I used cromulent in papers in high school. I also convinced my teachers it was completely valid. The best thing about english is that all the words are made up, so it is actually quite valid.
i wish I still had a copy of, "Our Most Cromulent Amendments : A Musical"
Well, Apple refers to the Installer files as packages, but the actual app just as Installer, and doesn't refer to package management, or anything. So, I guess "package installer" is a better term.
Indeed. If I could either get a free torrent with ads in it, or (less ideally) a $1.00 per episode legal torrent download, I'd real seriously consider it. It would have to be International, though. I like ReGenesis (Canadian), Hex (British), BattleStar Galactica (Airing in England), and a few others. At $5 per week, I'd be spending $20 bucks a month, but I'd be getting the shows I want to watch, and I'd be able to watch them whenever the hell I feel like it, and it would be a no-brainer to archive the video files on my server, so I can rewatch the episodes. (Given the fact that people would probably download and archive, it probably makes sense to have a few ads, and charge enormous rates for the ads in a free download, given that the ads will be watched many times, by a worldwide audience, with easy access for the viewers...)
OS X also has a package manager, which IMHO, is much more trustworthy than an executable installer. My only real complaint is that so many MAc OS X packages insist on being installed on the main drive. That makes me sad.
Don't worry, they are running on an 18 bit minicomputer. They can handle 256 thousand passengers before they get angry at the programmer! Good solid PDP-8, or something. :)
On one of the old PBS Math programs, possibly Sol Garfunkle's show, they did a piece on the crew assignment problem. They tried to feed a simplified version of the problem into a massive mainframe, which ran out of memory, and they were never able to get an answer out of it. Granted, this was probably in the 80's, when a massive system had multiple megawords of core, but it impressed me none-the-less!
lachlan@localhost $ analyse -q "What is the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything?"
42
lachlan@localhost $ analyse -q "Is there a God?"
There is now!