IIRC, WinZip started off as a wrapper to PKZIP. Because the algo was readily available, though, WinZip eventually folded ZIP compression into its main binary. Some other formats still require wrappers, such as LZH.
I've a strange connection to WinZip: Nico Mak computing, who makes WinZip, is located in my hometown, Bristol, CT!
I reassert that it is indeed a misfeature; likewise the English language has many misfeatures and bugs like morbidly nonstandard pronunciation for instance! Because most languages evolve instead of being designed, quite a few of them contain faults which are seemingly obvious from a design standpoint, but which we don't really think about because we use this language all the time in our daily speech. Unfortunately I don't speak esperanto or lojban, so I don't know how those "designed" languages compare against the "natural" ones. As for Daikatana being a made-up word... well, I don't know about that; I should go look it up.:) It seems to fit well within the rest of the faux-Japanese, crappy storyline.
Japanese is NOT syllabic the way Chinese is. That's why it was a serious misfeature to use the Chinese alphabet into the Japanese language. To compensate the Japanese introduced kana (hiragana and katakana), a kind of phonetic alphabet.
To make things worse, each kanji character can be read in one of several ways depending on usage and context. But as far as I know (I don't know *that* much Japanese) the symbols on the box may indeed be read as "daikatana".
I dunno about the his motivations or the legality of his actions but the guy must be pretty smart in order to successfully reconstruct a girl's naughty bits from that pixely stuff they put on Japanese pr0n.
Well, I am not a lawyer (spelled it out! h4w!) but my communications with RMS tend to indicate that he wants the GPL to be more restrictive than the LGPL, and not mutually compatible with it, for good reason. In his letters and on his Web site he indicated that if you develop a library that offers some unique function or purpose that is not yet available in commercial form, it should be GPLed and not LGPLed in the hopes that those individuals and companies who wish to use the library will be "forced" to GPL the code. This has happened at least once with GNU readline. I don't totally agree with what he's saying, but it's safe to say that simply taking someone else's GPLed code and re-releasing it under LGPL would defeat this purpose and would not be sanctioned by the FSF. Of course, the owner of the copyright can do whatever he wants.
I dunno, I went to that link and there were drivers for RIVA and GeForce. Source, too! Either we had a serious overnight effect on NVIDIA or someone's spreading smelly FUD.
Long, long ago I made a symlink from my libstdc++ to whatever it is that Mozilla wants to see so that Mozilla test builds would work on my Debian box. It seems that Mozilla is currently built to work only on Red Hat, so the rest of us have to do some fiddling.:) Make sure you're up to glibc 2.1, make the symlink, and it should work OK.
It was a joke. Get a sense of humor. Yeah, it's a bummer. Is it gonna hurt WYSE in the long run? No. Is it gonna hurt Linux in the long run? No. Everybody knows this; the author of the article was merely being facetious.
The word "otaku" in Japanese originally meant the type of person who hung out at anime and sci-fi cons, and basically had no life outside their favorite anime and manga. Over the past two decades or so the word has expanded in meaning to mean an enthusiast of any sort, whether his hobby be anime, computers, ham radio, or collecting data on teenage idol singers (also a big Japanese phenomenon). Only recently has modern American culture developed a concept analogous to the Japanese otaku: the "geek". It was originally almost synonymous with "nerd" (i.e., any social reject, though usually an intelligent one); now, since certain classes of geeks have gained more mainstream awareness, we use the term to imply a self-made cognoscenti of various topics, from computers to diesel engines to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". IMHO, the proliferation of otakus and geeks is the sign of a rich and vibrant culture, as these intellectuals are capable of critically analyzing the subject of their otaku-domain much more thoroughly than an "average" individual, and they become educators and awareness-raisers for "the rest of us". They also develop rampant wannabee-ism amongst non-geeks; an unfortunate side effect. Sorry for "metageeking" (being a geek about geeks!) in true Katz fashion. Thanks to people like him the word "geek" is a little trite and worn around the edges. But mainstream America has a new class and culture of people to deal with... instead of merely dismissing like they did before. In keeping with their traditions they must apply some sort of convenient label. Frankly I prefer "geek" to "nerd".:)
That reminds me of the computer in Hitchhiker's Guide which extracts all the information about the universe from a piece of fairy cake. Of course, Zaphod is living in a simulated universe created especially for him, so he sees himself as the reason for the universe's existence!
... MACOS X IS THE WINNER! Congratulations, MacOS X!
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Twenty years is quite a bit longer than most fads last my friend. That's how long hip-hop has been on the commercial music scene. Unix is only 10 years older! Think about it.
We can see evidence in everyday life. Look at government and corporate bureaucracy. Those are rules-based systems. Anyone who's observed these in action knows that minds which are entirely rule-based are among the stupidest.
Final Fantasy deliberately borrows many storytelling elements from the "Star Wars" movies; apparently Sakaguchi and his buddies are real SW fans. The plots smack strongly of Star Wars: young boy with sword and moppish hairdo meets girl, destroys villain and evil force, saves world.
The only reason why the PSX2 is so cheap is 'cause Sony has the lockdown on all development for the thing. Otherwise, they'd have to somehow make money on the hardware itself... and it'd cost you more than a decently equipped PC. So it's a matter of choice: pay more for the hardware or get assraped on the software side of things.
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You oughtta talk to that rocket car guy. I bet if you put your heads together you could build a mean contraption. :)
IIRC, WinZip started off as a wrapper to PKZIP. Because the algo was readily available, though, WinZip eventually folded ZIP compression into its main binary. Some other formats still require wrappers, such as LZH.
I've a strange connection to WinZip: Nico Mak computing, who makes WinZip, is located in my hometown, Bristol, CT!
I reassert that it is indeed a misfeature; likewise the English language has many misfeatures and bugs like morbidly nonstandard pronunciation for instance! Because most languages evolve instead of being designed, quite a few of them contain faults which are seemingly obvious from a design standpoint, but which we don't really think about because we use this language all the time in our daily speech. Unfortunately I don't speak esperanto or lojban, so I don't know how those "designed" languages compare against the "natural" ones. As for Daikatana being a made-up word... well, I don't know about that; I should go look it up. :) It seems to fit well within the rest of the faux-Japanese, crappy storyline.
It was a hardware upgrade... John Romero could declare it as a business expense. :)
Japanese is NOT syllabic the way Chinese is. That's why it was a serious misfeature to use the Chinese alphabet into the Japanese language. To compensate the Japanese introduced kana (hiragana and katakana), a kind of phonetic alphabet.
To make things worse, each kanji character can be read in one of several ways depending on usage and context. But as far as I know (I don't know *that* much Japanese) the symbols on the box may indeed be read as "daikatana".
I dunno about the his motivations or the legality of his actions but the guy must be pretty smart in order to successfully reconstruct a girl's naughty bits from that pixely stuff they put on Japanese pr0n.
Well, I am not a lawyer (spelled it out! h4w!) but my communications with RMS tend to indicate that he wants the GPL to be more restrictive than the LGPL, and not mutually compatible with it, for good reason. In his letters and on his Web site he indicated that if you develop a library that offers some unique function or purpose that is not yet available in commercial form, it should be GPLed and not LGPLed in the hopes that those individuals and companies who wish to use the library will be "forced" to GPL the code. This has happened at least once with GNU readline. I don't totally agree with what he's saying, but it's safe to say that simply taking someone else's GPLed code and re-releasing it under LGPL would defeat this purpose and would not be sanctioned by the FSF. Of course, the owner of the copyright can do whatever he wants.
I dunno, I went to that link and there were drivers for RIVA and GeForce. Source, too! Either we had a serious overnight effect on NVIDIA or someone's spreading smelly FUD.
http://bladeenc.mp3.no
Don't they make a version for 'Doze?
There are some parts some actors were born to play. This... definitely doesn't seem to be one of them.
Long, long ago I made a symlink from my libstdc++ to whatever it is that Mozilla wants to see so that Mozilla test builds would work on my Debian box. It seems that Mozilla is currently built to work only on Red Hat, so the rest of us have to do some fiddling. :) Make sure you're up to glibc 2.1, make the symlink, and it should work OK.
It was a joke. Get a sense of humor. Yeah, it's a bummer. Is it gonna hurt WYSE in the long run? No. Is it gonna hurt Linux in the long run? No. Everybody knows this; the author of the article was merely being facetious.
The word "otaku" in Japanese originally meant the type of person who hung out at anime and sci-fi cons, and basically had no life outside their favorite anime and manga. Over the past two decades or so the word has expanded in meaning to mean an enthusiast of any sort, whether his hobby be anime, computers, ham radio, or collecting data on teenage idol singers (also a big Japanese phenomenon). Only recently has modern American culture developed a concept analogous to the Japanese otaku: the "geek". It was originally almost synonymous with "nerd" (i.e., any social reject, though usually an intelligent one); now, since certain classes of geeks have gained more mainstream awareness, we use the term to imply a self-made cognoscenti of various topics, from computers to diesel engines to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". IMHO, the proliferation of otakus and geeks is the sign of a rich and vibrant culture, as these intellectuals are capable of critically analyzing the subject of their otaku-domain much more thoroughly than an "average" individual, and they become educators and awareness-raisers for "the rest of us". They also develop rampant wannabee-ism amongst non-geeks; an unfortunate side effect. Sorry for "metageeking" (being a geek about geeks!) in true Katz fashion. Thanks to people like him the word "geek" is a little trite and worn around the edges. But mainstream America has a new class and culture of people to deal with... instead of merely dismissing like they did before. In keeping with their traditions they must apply some sort of convenient label. Frankly I prefer "geek" to "nerd". :)
Way to go Katz! Issues like this tend to hit WND faster than most other sites, including /. and certainly long before CNN gets around to it.
That reminds me of the computer in Hitchhiker's Guide which extracts all the information about the universe from a piece of fairy cake. Of course, Zaphod is living in a simulated universe created especially for him, so he sees himself as the reason for the universe's existence!
The problem is, in order to make your toast lighter or darker, you have to recompile the kernel, or else reconfigure the module via /etc/toast.conf...
... MACOS X IS THE WINNER! Congratulations, MacOS X!
Twenty years is quite a bit longer than most fads last my friend. That's how long hip-hop has been on the commercial music scene. Unix is only 10 years older! Think about it.
It was "Los Locos" but that was a kick-ass movie.
"I dunno, man, eet's a... a Meetsubishi!"
"Am not Mitsubishi! Am Johnny Five!"
"Collecting mucho input! Urban input!"
Los Lobos was the name of a Latin band from the eighties; they are responsible for reviving "La Bamba".
We can see evidence in everyday life. Look at government and corporate bureaucracy. Those are rules-based systems. Anyone who's observed these in action knows that minds which are entirely rule-based are among the stupidest.
Final Fantasy deliberately borrows many storytelling elements from the "Star Wars" movies; apparently Sakaguchi and his buddies are real SW fans. The plots smack strongly of Star Wars: young boy with sword and moppish hairdo meets girl, destroys villain and evil force, saves world.
PSX2 + VGA monitor + keyboard + hard disk = multimedia workstation... this is what Sony has in the works.
The only reason why the PSX2 is so cheap is 'cause Sony has the lockdown on all development for the thing. Otherwise, they'd have to somehow make money on the hardware itself... and it'd cost you more than a decently equipped PC. So it's a matter of choice: pay more for the hardware or get assraped on the software side of things.
Little to none. The PSX2 can theoretically go to 1600x1200 or thereabouts.
Hellz yeah! On a bad day *my* comics are funnier than most of Illiad's recent work. Gabe and Tycho simply kick all ass. It's that simple.