Its a bit split. Theres tech geek guys that love it, and guys like me that are 'stuck with it'.
My work laptop is Vista, because I can't get drivers to downgrade. Its OK, but XP on my older laptop was a vastly smoother experience. Despite the new laptop being nearly 3 times as fast, it sure doesnt feel like an upgrade because vista is so obese with garbage.
I've been given a hint to use Windows 2008, as apparently it burns vista to the ground on benchmarks.
But for home? I love me my new iMac. Soooo pretty.:3
Except that microsoft ended up certifying a whole bunch of hardware 'vista ready' that clearly was not.
So maybe the analogy is "Saab released a car that ran on 92 octane gas, but lied and said it ran on 87 octane gas, causing lots of peoples Saabs to light on fire somehow".
The pentium was a great chip, in its time, and MAN could it overclock. But yes, the floating point bug was nasty. It only occured in a bunch of runs of a single model however, if memory serves me right.
As someone who is not advanced enough in programming, I really don't care. All I know is that a great tool has been adopted by tech company with deep pockets, which means that there will soon be cool mySQL tools, GUI interfaces, backups/replicate/security features etc. If I can't get to the code, it really doesn't bother me. Just keep making the product better. Lets just hope you aren't dependant on an operating system thats designed around having source available to help integrate things, like, ooh say, linux.
Yeah. Sometimes you just luck out. I've had the reverse problems before. Machines that XP throws a hissy fit at, but linux works great on.
Maybe you need to try a more conventional debian, and manually configure it. Its possible the autodetection just isn't having a fun time.
Conversely , kick back a bit and try it later. It could be a driver situation thats just-not-there-yet. Sometimes linux just takes a bit longer.
Good luck tho. Linux is worth it.
Now, as for vista. I'm *DAMN* hoping this service pack makes my laptop more same because god damn it this things got some unpleasant quirks sometimes. 1-2 minute epileptic fits when I plug in a monitor? XP never did THAT.
In the US at least, theres good reason as well to believe that anti-protest-mask laws are probably unconstitutional. Anything that limits anonymous speech probably is a violation of the first amendment, since losing anonymity can have a 'chilling' effect.
Vistas desktop composition mode I suspect has a share of blame as well. Basically the thing puts a degree of separation between the final render buffer and the monitor to allow some of vistas special-effects to do there thing (Ie the alt tab effects, etc), and this neuters many tricks and optimisations used to squeeze fps out of the system.
I know its all gone and messed up Open GL, but heck I might just be bitter on that point, since I cant for the life of me find an accelerated GL driver for my Vista Mobile Radeon laptop.
Some of you guys are kind of missing the point here. What he hasn't done is writing a cheezy little vba app that does wireframe graphics, he's used the non-imperative logic in the actual spreadsheet to demonstrate that whats normally a linear 'pipeline' can be done perfectly well non-imperatively.
Functional coding guys would 'get' the wow factor of it all, I guess.
America appears to be the only country that seems to think its the only free country. It really isn't. Its not even in the top 10 or 20% of free countries, civil rights wise. With a higher percentage of its poplation imprisoned than anywhere else in the world, and one of the last 'free' countries left with a Death sentence, the USA is a human rights dinosaur.
But it still attempts to tell the world how we should follow [i]their[/i] example. No thanks, I actually like my freedoms.
All the South Africans I've asked about that have told me that no matter what was going to happen, the change was innevitable. The people [i]wanted[/i] it, and it was , at least nominally , a democracy of sorts. What they did say however is the embargo really pissed people off and made many people feel that losing apartheid was something that was being forced on them. Its been sugested the embargo hindered rather than helped the change, and that without the embargo it would of came many years earlier.
Yeah. Lag really does damage EVE. I'm not sure it can be fixed however, as its simply a matter of scale. No complex MMOS handle 500 people on a grid fighting massive fleet battles without SOME sort of lag. But I actually like the combat system. its ponderous, sometimes slow and more about tactics than twitch. Well sometimes its about twitch.
She makes an awesome point on this. The system is designed to allow people to print the images or burn them to a CD , on the assumption that people can be trusted not to deliberately break the customs. She then says that copyright laws are busted because they are not in line with community values, and copyright laws should change to bring them in line with community values, particularly in that people SHOULD be trusted.
"Jingoism and bigotry posing as rational smug superiority. Nothing more."
I'd say ignorance even.
The reason why this is important, is due to the critical need for anthropologists to win the trust of many of these ancient tribes to study the practices so we can learn a bit more about how hunter gatherer societies organise. Back in the earlier days of Anthropologists studying Aboriginal tribes, the Aboriginals, knowing "whitefulla" had no real ability to use the dances and rituals in the "magical" way Aboriginal religions see them, they freely cooperated and would show the rituals etc. However a series of incidents, where the rituals where shown on TV and then seen by neighboring tribes, thus unleashing "curses" or whatever, led to most of these tribes stopping from trusting anthropologists to respect the conditions of the cooperation. This particularly occurs with gender specific rituals. "womens business" rituals are not to be seen by men (white men included), and unless the anthropologist can guarantee this, she won't be shown the ritual. But oftentimes she cant, and so anthropology never gets to study it.
Systems like this, where the community gets to decide the 'rules' of accessing the multimedia (a bit like creative commons even) means that the Anthropologist can finally win the trust of the tribe to do the studies needed to piece together the mysteries of traditional Aboriginal life.
Its a specious argument that says "Since entropy = stuff going chaotic over time, how is it possible for simple things to evolve into complex things".
It took me a while to grapple the argument, and from the best of my understanding, creationists have latched onto the word "entropy" without either understanding the context, nor explaining how the hell evolution has anything to do with the dynamics of heat in closed ordered physical systems.
Its completely barmy as hell, but unfortunately an entire generation of christian kids are getting there science educations trashed by this deliberately dishonest piece of pseudo-science.
I have a friend with 3 healthy children as a testamant to the power of the Rhythm method.
oh wait...:(
Its not like he regrets the kids tho. Its just his wife has recently become a convert to the greater power of the contraceptive pill. After all God *wants* you to have babies see, so he's not all too reliable a contraceptive.
Heres how you do make GOD work as a contraceptive.
Her: Can I come back to your place tonight baby? Him: I'm a christian! Lets read bibles! . . Him: Baby come back!
In fairness, I agree that Javascript is Junk. It shouldn't be junk, as it does encapsulate some very neat ideas, but it is junk , and junk that eschews standard niceties (Like sane OO etc) in favor of a laundry basket of mixed esoteria.
HOWEVER
The next version of Javascript should be the charm. From my understanding, the ECMA guys have been closely scrutinising languages like python and ruby and trying to work out what makes them so sweet and if they get it right (I believe Pythons going to have a huge impact on JS) then you might end up with an actually nice to work with scripting language.
Nicotine is probably the most harmful drug we know. Heroin will kill roughly 1 in 10, thereabouts , of its addicts. Nicotine will kill 1 in 3.
Go follow that ones implications to its logical conclusion.
(Disclaimer: I'm a shocking Nicotine addicts and I utterly resent the shit for it. I want my health back, but every time I go to quit I end up almost psychiatric from the freaking withdrawal symptoms.)
That said I'm worried about this research. Cocaine is actually used medically as a top notch little local anesthetic. More to the point, if they then use this on Opiates, what happens when I get cancer (see above admission on smoking!) and actually need Opiates for my pain.
That said, if they could do a 'vaccine' for nicotine that makes the stuff stop working, BRING IT ON.
Oh fuck. Its T20 [b]Again?[/b]/!\ If they fired the guy when the community demanded it a year ago for being a dishonest cheater, this wouldn't of happened!/!\
Thats the thing really isn't. You could get some Iranian woman , who might be really white (As many Iranians are) , give her a passport with a name like "Maria Jones" or even "Frances Cohen" or something, swing a cross or star of david around her neck, some fake ID papers and some lessons on affecting a perfect accent, and you have someone that won't raise an eyelid. Comes up on the test as a bit fundamentalist inclined in personality? Sure, she's heading to the US for an Assemblies of God, or Jehovas Witness conference. Theres NOTHING you can do to stop that , and a smart terrorist knows that. tt Its all symptoms of dealing with the symptoms rather than the causes of terrorism. If the world thinks the US is "The happy country with coca cola and Levi Jeans" then you won't recruit a damn soul. If the world thinks the US is a violent country with a military mad government that claims morals whilst going around blowing up shit they don't like, well you won't need to look hard to find those recruits. Its in fact the infuriating thing about this whole 'terrorism era', we didn't even need to have it. Its like we *chose* to piss off the middle east and make them go crazy and hate us. You don't 'fix' bee nests by hitting them with rocks.
Zimbra pretty much does it all. The web client is top notch, and makes a perfectly fine outlook replacement (Yeah, I know. Just try it, seriously), and its got some serious scaling capacitys (Its used by some of the biggest ISPs around). Yahoo now owns it, so its got some name backing. The catch is the outlook compatible one ISNT so open source, but its pretty cheap.
Citadels pretty nice too, and Ignatius foobar is a cool guy, but its a pretty eccentric product. I think they've kinda been fucked around a bit with outlook compatibility, but I admit I havent checked in a long time.
dont forget Open Offices DB front end. Its a pretty competent replacement for "Access" , for such a young piece of software. Its query building is great. And you just farm it out via a jdbc connector to MySQL for true happiness.
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No. Its the fact that its usability has been gimped.
Its a bit split. Theres tech geek guys that love it, and guys like me that are 'stuck with it'.
My work laptop is Vista, because I can't get drivers to downgrade. Its OK, but XP on my older laptop was a vastly smoother experience. Despite the new laptop being nearly 3 times as fast, it sure doesnt feel like an upgrade because vista is so obese with garbage.
I've been given a hint to use Windows 2008, as apparently it burns vista to the ground on benchmarks.
But for home? I love me my new iMac. Soooo pretty. :3
Except that microsoft ended up certifying a whole bunch of hardware 'vista ready' that clearly was not.
So maybe the analogy is "Saab released a car that ran on 92 octane gas, but lied and said it ran on 87 octane gas, causing lots of peoples Saabs to light on fire somehow".
The pentium was a great chip, in its time, and MAN could it overclock. But yes, the floating point bug was nasty. It only occured in a bunch of runs of a single model however, if memory serves me right.
The acting in Star wreck was pretty damn good actually. I'm not too worried. These guys know what they are doing.
If I can't get to the code, it really doesn't bother me.
Just keep making the product better. Lets just hope you aren't dependant on an operating system thats designed around having source available to help integrate things, like, ooh say, linux.
Yeah. Sometimes you just luck out. I've had the reverse problems before. Machines that XP throws a hissy fit at, but linux works great on.
Maybe you need to try a more conventional debian, and manually configure it. Its possible the autodetection just isn't having a fun time.
Conversely , kick back a bit and try it later. It could be a driver situation thats just-not-there-yet. Sometimes linux just takes a bit longer.
Good luck tho. Linux is worth it.
Now, as for vista. I'm *DAMN* hoping this service pack makes my laptop more same because god damn it this things got some unpleasant quirks sometimes. 1-2 minute epileptic fits when I plug in a monitor? XP never did THAT.
In the US at least, theres good reason as well to believe that anti-protest-mask laws are probably unconstitutional. Anything that limits anonymous speech probably is a violation of the first amendment, since losing anonymity can have a 'chilling' effect.
Not sure if its tested in court.
Vistas desktop composition mode I suspect has a share of blame as well. Basically the thing puts a degree of separation between the final render buffer and the monitor to allow some of vistas special-effects to do there thing (Ie the alt tab effects, etc), and this neuters many tricks and optimisations used to squeeze fps out of the system.
I know its all gone and messed up Open GL, but heck I might just be bitter on that point, since I cant for the life of me find an accelerated GL driver for my Vista Mobile Radeon laptop.
Some of you guys are kind of missing the point here. What he hasn't done is writing a cheezy little vba app that does wireframe graphics, he's used the non-imperative logic in the actual spreadsheet to demonstrate that whats normally a linear 'pipeline' can be done perfectly well non-imperatively.
Functional coding guys would 'get' the wow factor of it all, I guess.
America appears to be the only country that seems to think its the only free country. It really isn't. Its not even in the top 10 or 20% of free countries, civil rights wise. With a higher percentage of its poplation imprisoned than anywhere else in the world, and one of the last 'free' countries left with a Death sentence, the USA is a human rights dinosaur.
But it still attempts to tell the world how we should follow [i]their[/i] example. No thanks, I actually like my freedoms.
All the South Africans I've asked about that have told me that no matter what was going to happen, the change was innevitable. The people [i]wanted[/i] it, and it was , at least nominally , a democracy of sorts. What they did say however is the embargo really pissed people off and made many people feel that losing apartheid was something that was being forced on them. Its been sugested the embargo hindered rather than helped the change, and that without the embargo it would of came many years earlier.
Yeah. Lag really does damage EVE. I'm not sure it can be fixed however, as its simply a matter of scale. No complex MMOS handle 500 people on a grid fighting massive fleet battles without SOME sort of lag. But I actually like the combat system. its ponderous, sometimes slow and more about tactics than twitch. Well sometimes its about twitch.
She makes an awesome point on this. The system is designed to allow people to print the images or burn them to a CD , on the assumption that people can be trusted not to deliberately break the customs. She then says that copyright laws are busted because they are not in line with community values, and copyright laws should change to bring them in line with community values, particularly in that people SHOULD be trusted.
"Jingoism and bigotry posing as rational smug superiority. Nothing more."
I'd say ignorance even.
The reason why this is important, is due to the critical need for anthropologists to win the trust of many of these ancient tribes to study the practices so we can learn a bit more about how hunter gatherer societies organise. Back in the earlier days of Anthropologists studying Aboriginal tribes, the Aboriginals, knowing "whitefulla" had no real ability to use the dances and rituals in the "magical" way Aboriginal religions see them, they freely cooperated and would show the rituals etc. However a series of incidents, where the rituals where shown on TV and then seen by neighboring tribes, thus unleashing "curses" or whatever, led to most of these tribes stopping from trusting anthropologists to respect the conditions of the cooperation. This particularly occurs with gender specific rituals. "womens business" rituals are not to be seen by men (white men included), and unless the anthropologist can guarantee this, she won't be shown the ritual. But oftentimes she cant, and so anthropology never gets to study it.
Systems like this, where the community gets to decide the 'rules' of accessing the multimedia (a bit like creative commons even) means that the Anthropologist can finally win the trust of the tribe to do the studies needed to piece together the mysteries of traditional Aboriginal life.
Shocking! People with different religions to you! What is the world coming to?
I'd say Nuts. He's not threatening folks like you or me, but actual real lawyers. He's going to get his shit kicked in for his efforts.
Predicting life in a trailer park reeeeeaaaaaaal soon for him.
Its a specious argument that says "Since entropy = stuff going chaotic over time, how is it possible for simple things to evolve into complex things".
It took me a while to grapple the argument, and from the best of my understanding, creationists have latched onto the word "entropy" without either understanding the context, nor explaining how the hell evolution has anything to do with the dynamics of heat in closed ordered physical systems.
Its completely barmy as hell, but unfortunately an entire generation of christian kids are getting there science educations trashed by this deliberately dishonest piece of pseudo-science.
I have a friend with 3 healthy children as a testamant to the power of the Rhythm method.
:(
oh wait...
Its not like he regrets the kids tho. Its just his wife has recently become a convert to the greater power of the contraceptive pill. After all God *wants* you to have babies see, so he's not all too reliable a contraceptive.
Heres how you do make GOD work as a contraceptive.
Her: Can I come back to your place tonight baby?
Him: I'm a christian! Lets read bibles!
.
.
Him: Baby come back!
In fairness, I agree that Javascript is Junk. It shouldn't be junk, as it does encapsulate some very neat ideas, but it is junk , and junk that eschews standard niceties (Like sane OO etc) in favor of a laundry basket of mixed esoteria.
HOWEVER
The next version of Javascript should be the charm. From my understanding, the ECMA guys have been closely scrutinising languages like python and ruby and trying to work out what makes them so sweet and if they get it right (I believe Pythons going to have a huge impact on JS) then you might end up with an actually nice to work with scripting language.
And one that'll work on Macs.
Nicotine is probably the most harmful drug we know. Heroin will kill roughly 1 in 10, thereabouts , of its addicts. Nicotine will kill 1 in 3.
Go follow that ones implications to its logical conclusion.
(Disclaimer: I'm a shocking Nicotine addicts and I utterly resent the shit for it. I want my health back, but every time I go to quit I end up almost psychiatric from the freaking withdrawal symptoms.)
That said I'm worried about this research. Cocaine is actually used medically as a top notch little local anesthetic. More to the point, if they then use this on Opiates, what happens when I get cancer (see above admission on smoking!) and actually need Opiates for my pain.
That said, if they could do a 'vaccine' for nicotine that makes the stuff stop working, BRING IT ON.
Oh fuck. Its T20 [b]Again?[/b] /!\ If they fired the guy when the community demanded it a year ago for being a dishonest cheater, this wouldn't of happened! /!\
Thats the thing really isn't. You could get some Iranian woman , who might be really white (As many Iranians are) , give her a passport with a name like "Maria Jones" or even "Frances Cohen" or something, swing a cross or star of david around her neck, some fake ID papers and some lessons on affecting a perfect accent, and you have someone that won't raise an eyelid. Comes up on the test as a bit fundamentalist inclined in personality? Sure, she's heading to the US for an Assemblies of God, or Jehovas Witness conference. Theres NOTHING you can do to stop that , and a smart terrorist knows that.
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Its all symptoms of dealing with the symptoms rather than the causes of terrorism. If the world thinks the US is "The happy country with coca cola and Levi Jeans" then you won't recruit a damn soul. If the world thinks the US is a violent country with a military mad government that claims morals whilst going around blowing up shit they don't like, well you won't need to look hard to find those recruits. Its in fact the infuriating thing about this whole 'terrorism era', we didn't even need to have it. Its like we *chose* to piss off the middle east and make them go crazy and hate us. You don't 'fix' bee nests by hitting them with rocks.
Zimbra pretty much does it all. The web client is top notch, and makes a perfectly fine outlook replacement (Yeah, I know. Just try it, seriously), and its got some serious scaling capacitys (Its used by some of the biggest ISPs around). Yahoo now owns it, so its got some name backing. The catch is the outlook compatible one ISNT so open source, but its pretty cheap.
Citadels pretty nice too, and Ignatius foobar is a cool guy, but its a pretty eccentric product. I think they've kinda been fucked around a bit with outlook compatibility, but I admit I havent checked in a long time.
dont forget Open Offices DB front end. Its a pretty competent replacement for "Access" , for such a young piece of software. Its query building is great. And you just farm it out via a jdbc connector to MySQL for true happiness.