That's not fair AC, The windows structure for Codecs is such that hooks in the API let you write a little library that hooks in to provide a nominated codec protocol and kinda bend it around into whatever user level app wants to use it. It you wanted to, you could make , for instance a "BIGIFIER CODEC" that actually makes things bigger, and any given win program could use it.
DivX then is a (slightly tweaked I think) Mpeg4 implementation , bundled into a standard codec, so junky little apps like win media player can play DivX's. It's not a hack therefore , it's an addon. Subtle difference I guess.
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IANAL... But I suspect the FSF and other cat's have prechecked out the "No waranty at all for anything" clause in the GPL" If it holds, you don't have to worry about it. Problem solved....... I think?!
There certainly are camels there. In fact the North west of Australia is covered in the stubborn buggers, brought over by Afghan camel drivers (on boats of course!) from Afghanistan last century.
Ain't Luna wierd? Like green-o wierd bubble skin. Sorta like Aqua with Herpes or something.
You of course can turn the skin off, and go back to a 2000-ish look, but truth be told it aint quite the same as getting peaved at a desktop and flipping across to an ENTIRELY different one (Ie gnome to KDE).
Having played with KDE 2.x recently , I've gotta admit that Linux world has *finally* pulled it off. With the exception of the "Office suite problem" (Star Office is OK I guess, but it still seems to goof MSoffice documents ocasionally.. Now Skinning star office with an MS Office look to make it easy on the plebs would be a damn achievement!). Linux is ready for Joe Desktop. Whoooopeeee!
Software is like prostitution. You got the product. You sell the product. You still got the product. The consumer doesn't get money back just because he's done with the product, it's a totally different concept than just buying tangible things It's actually a rather horrible comparison. Because if you take the sex and she doesn't want to give it, she's still got the sex, but she's been raped. No one of course seriously believes working gals should be raped.
(your welcome). As to kids resources... Unfortunately not. I've often thought a... perhaps python based.. game programming language that lets kids make nifty 3d fun things and imposes all those little math lessons that makes rogramming so mind expanding for kids is in order.
It's a tragedy, but probably the only kid friendly language I can think of is VB... And that'll only encourage bad habits... Kylix tho may be extremely usefull for kids, because it's visual and thus has that instant gratification thing, and actually has a real object model.
I'm sure theres a few bucks to be made in writing that kid's game programming book too!
Seriously, unless it's a performance thing, sounds like your machine is doing sweet:). Leave her alone, and let that big red fire engine clock the 400h....... Then inform management(Just incase they are getting a horn over XP *ugh*)
And here's my crappy java game, Anirak [angelfire.com] that I have been developing with a 12-year old in order to teach him how to make games.
You, good sir , are a schollar and a gentleman! That's how I learned to program. Sitting round a VIC-20 with my dad , while he showed me (or worked out with me!) how to make nuggety little games. Now that learning is earning me bucks and position. What an excellent thing to do. Good on you.
Yup, and just to be sure , the command is ifconfig eth0 (Or whatever your card is located at... May be diff for token ring?) mtu=1465
Or something like that (2am brain melt).. And while i'm at it , that's some magic in that command there for making ADSL connections come good. heaps of ppoe type things have MTU wierdness
Considering that this discussion is about what looks like from my quick perusal of the english language pages a fairly friendly missionary/self improvement islam info page, I reeeealy hope we aren't talking about bombing islamic web sites
We haven't gone that far down the road?... have we? When we resort to barbarism Osama wins because he's better at that game that us. That's the secret.... Don't play at violence, play at JUSTICE!
This is of Kourse true in the larger or more tech oriented businesses, however in fairness the office API is actually reasonably easy to work with in a COM kinda way.. Particilarly if you swallow pride and use (ugh) VB.
This of course is not going to be a problem as long KOffice pays attention to this factor and Kontinues to provide good api resources.
The trick will be to ensure that a good object model is followed. Grantedly I know less about the KDE model then the Gnome one, but I assume it's competant.
Put in a good scripting host and sand box the frigging thing(!) and KDE is gonna make it with the suits. High time for a veebeeaye imp for K tho. I probably'd give it a miss , but it'd draw many windoze drones across to the platform.
I think ERS has kinda hit the nail on the head in this one. We do it because it makes us feel proud of ourself. When we write or contribute to a kicker of a project , and it ends up on a Redhat CD or something, and get an email to the effect of "Wow thanks for that little app, it saved my ass the other day at work". You know it's a good thing
Humans are status seeking beings, where not unlike other critters in that being top dog is something we'd like. Maybe it's some sorta latent mate scoring thing. Maybe its post-animal displaying psychology, but either way putting out the most (excuse the silly s'kiddee phrase) leet app and geting kudo's for it makes us feel valid
We do it because we see ourself as being important in the comunity. And we like our communities, that's why we want to give our little pieces of (questionable) genius to it.
And maybe we might even score (hmmmm). Perhaps a little MS-fear helps too. Valiantly ahead for linus* and country:)
*or RMS or ESR or your old CS professor or whoever get's your admiration.
Yeah bloke, I sorta agree, but the thing I note is your refering to 5 year plan projects, and not everyone is talking in that sort of headspace where we can do the whole waterfull-pretty diagram-dfd-usercase-point'o'failure analysis mumbo.
In the industry I'm in, I'm more likely to be hit by management with the "How long will this take?" ME(After back of envelope figurin' "Month & Half to do it properly" Manager: "You've got a week".
A lot of programmers get that sorta thing. Granted that there is gonna be a little noodling with a rough sketch of how it's gonna hang to gether, quite often it's a rough job on an ill-considered designed followed by fixum-hacks because commisioning is tomorrow.
And yeah... The bugs then roll in. I've figured that for every day stripped of a sugested timetable for development, three days are added fixing the mess.
But don't blame the programmers. The "Fixit or fired" managerial aproach kinda forces it
Reverse engineering documents can wait. Commenting'll probably never happen.
It's a shame, but that's life in small business.
Ok. As I'm writing this, I'm using IE 6 on Win XP box (beta 2). I've gotta say it. It Blows bigtime. Now considering that this is a pre RC1 version, my criticisms may be a little off kilter, but unless some of these probs are fixed pronto , I really must stress do *NOT* use this product on any mission , or sanity, critical system.
The bundled CD burner feature has NEVER worked on this machine, it messes up every CD it touches, but disturbingly the OS seems to cause brain snaps for most other CD burning software. I've only just managed to get NERO back into action, fortunately giving me a backup-bailout solution to this XP mess
Search is busted. The cute puppy seems to crash the computer.
Performance has plummeted , on a cel 433(or something) machine with 128meg , the clean installed system choked every step of the way.
My winmodem (which sucks anyway!) won't work now and isn't suported (Microsoft's driver support for XP appears to be "under construction" AFAIKT), so I'm relying on my old external 14K
And the Linux partition seems to of been majikally nuked.(grrrr)
But hey..... I can click on the pretty butterfly to invoke OS-level hotmail suport... I bet that'll get the big iron guys excited about Datacentre
Oh, I can go on, and I'm really just whinging now, but I must stress, I'm not really into the ms-bashing thing. Imho 2000 was great, but I'm dead serious when I say Microsoft has lost the plot.
Have faith dude. Having worked in the legal system (albiet as a lowly techie) Judges can be surprisingly thoughtfull at times. Now I'm speaking from an Aust perspective, but I'd take a bet that the US is not *THAT* different (notwithstanding the whole nonsense of voting for judges)
Microsoft where found to be bad-asses by the court, although the foot to the MS-BUM is yet to be applied as per instructions.
If you followed the link it would of seen that the battlebots.org site was a site for IRC war scripts(bots) or something to that effect. More to the point, and infact the only point really is that *The guy (battlebot.ORD) registered the name before battlebots.COM ever existed* Timetravel notwithstanding there is no way on earth that battlebots.COM can get away with demanding that name back.
Infact I'd say that battlebots.ord has EVERY right to turn around and say "Actually BITCH, you give me YOUR site and apologise and pay me $$$ and even give me some beer you corporate motherfukin' pig."
If a court forces the.org guy to hand over his domain then that's only because the court has screwed up.
Off topic, but has anyone thought how damn funny it would be if some old computer dude had registered the name MICROSOFT in the '60's and then came out and demanded that MS relinquished it's website & got a new name. *THAT*'d be a damn funny domain dispute.
One of the things it's worth mentioning, is that the biological neural net type arangement of the human brain is not necessarily the most efficient arangement of 'stuff' to produce any sort of intelligence. It certainly is a good one, but not necessarrily the best
I think the point is, is that we'd probably be alright if we created pinochio and the thing thought like us.
It's that the thing probably would NOT think like us that is the concern. The thing would not necessarily *have* to be in any way recognisable as intelligent, but simply have to 'think' quicker and deeper, and have for some reason a good reason to supress humans (such as not being turned off!)
In point they don't need to match biology, just provide a viable alternative
CHuck, being somewhat of an old time Forth nut , first let me point out that I'm a big fan. It was(is!) one of the most elegantly simple languages yet blitzkreigingly fast languages I've come across. Everything is a stack. Simple!
Anyway, One of the thing's I've liked about forth is that implementing a simple (subset) compiler for new platforms is stupidly easy for forth, I've rattled of basic compilers for subsets of forth in single days in the past. Was this a design consideration when you designed the language?
.. And of course theres the regular magazine cover Redhat distro's that turn up from time to time. I'm not sure how big the CD on mag cover is in the rest of the world is (I presume it's big everywhere..maybe?) but for my bucks the old $9Aust for Redhat 7.1 and a bunch of passable mag articles is somewhat more cheaper than the $100+aust for Windows 9x or $fartoomuch+aust for Windows servers.
And yeah , it often is a little harder to install than windoze, but at least Linux warns you before (optionally!) nuking your partitions.
..Not always. Finding mystery gremlins in DCOM stuff is neither quick nor easy.... Nor is Rebooting a fecking IIS machine everytime you go to test that little ISAPI thinger and discover you've goofed on a fine point of some undocumented thead thing or whatever....
Windows is pretty, but it's closed source nature can also make it counfoundingly hard sometimes... That applies for non programmer stuff too. Linux does I agree give more flexibility... usually (and completely if microsoft ever ported that nutty office package across).
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That's not fair AC, The windows structure for Codecs is such that hooks in the API let you write a little library that hooks in to provide a nominated codec protocol and kinda bend it around into whatever user level app wants to use it. It you wanted to, you could make , for instance a "BIGIFIER CODEC" that actually makes things bigger, and any given win program could use it.
DivX then is a (slightly tweaked I think) Mpeg4 implementation , bundled into a standard codec, so junky little apps like win media player can play DivX's. It's not a hack therefore , it's an addon. Subtle difference I guess.
IANAL... But I suspect the FSF and other cat's have prechecked out the "No waranty at all for anything" clause in the GPL" If it holds, you don't have to worry about it. Problem solved....... I think?!
Heee! Of course more than a few times I've spoken on the net to people who think Australia is some sort of southern US state or something. :)
:)
>>brought over by Afghan camel drivers (on boats
>>of course!)
>It's a shame you clarified that -- I had this
>wonderful vision of camels swimming the Indian
>Ocean, with men in turbans on their backs.
>There's More Than One Way To Do It, indeed.
There certainly are camels there. In fact the North west of Australia is covered in the stubborn buggers, brought over by Afghan camel drivers (on boats of course!) from Afghanistan last century.
Ain't Luna wierd? Like green-o wierd bubble skin. Sorta like Aqua with Herpes or something.
You of course can turn the skin off, and go back to a 2000-ish look, but truth be told it aint quite the same as getting peaved at a desktop and flipping across to an ENTIRELY different one (Ie gnome to KDE).
Having played with KDE 2.x recently , I've gotta admit that Linux world has *finally* pulled it off. With the exception of the "Office suite problem" (Star Office is OK I guess, but it still seems to goof MSoffice documents ocasionally.. Now Skinning star office with an MS Office look to make it easy on the plebs would be a damn achievement!). Linux is ready for Joe Desktop. Whoooopeeee!
Software is like prostitution. You got the product. You sell the product. You still got the product. The consumer doesn't get money back just because he's done with the product, it's a totally different concept than just buying tangible things
It's actually a rather horrible comparison. Because if you take the sex and she doesn't want to give it, she's still got the sex, but she's been raped. No one of course seriously believes working gals should be raped.
Of course I presume you didn't mean that!
(your welcome). As to kids resources... Unfortunately not. I've often thought a ... perhaps python based.. game programming language that lets kids make nifty 3d fun things and imposes all those little math lessons that makes rogramming so mind expanding for kids is in order.
It's a tragedy, but probably the only kid friendly language I can think of is VB... And that'll only encourage bad habits... Kylix tho may be extremely usefull for kids, because it's visual and thus has that instant gratification thing, and actually has a real object model.
I'm sure theres a few bucks to be made in writing that kid's game programming book too!
Fuck off racist.
...don't fix it.
Seriously, unless it's a performance thing, sounds like your machine is doing sweet:). Leave her alone, and let that big red fire engine clock the 400h....... Then inform management(Just incase they are getting a horn over XP *ugh*)
And here's my crappy java game, Anirak [angelfire.com] that I have been developing with a 12-year old in order to teach him how to make games.
You, good sir , are a schollar and a gentleman! That's how I learned to program. Sitting round a VIC-20 with my dad , while he showed me (or worked out with me!) how to make nuggety little games. Now that learning is earning me bucks and position. What an excellent thing to do. Good on you.
Yup, and just to be sure , the command is ifconfig eth0 (Or whatever your card is located at... May be diff for token ring?) mtu=1465
Or something like that (2am brain melt).. And while i'm at it , that's some magic in that command there for making ADSL connections come good. heaps of ppoe type things have MTU wierdness
Theres an english link at the corner of the page Rogr. It seems pretty harmless to me
Considering that this discussion is about what looks like from my quick perusal of the english language pages a fairly friendly missionary/self improvement islam info page, I reeeealy hope we aren't talking about bombing islamic web sites
We haven't gone that far down the road?... have we? When we resort to barbarism Osama wins because he's better at that game that us. That's the secret.... Don't play at violence, play at JUSTICE!
This is of Kourse true in the larger or more tech oriented businesses, however in fairness the office API is actually reasonably easy to work with in a COM kinda way.. Particilarly if you swallow pride and use (ugh) VB.
This of course is not going to be a problem as long KOffice pays attention to this factor and Kontinues to provide good api resources.
The trick will be to ensure that a good object model is followed. Grantedly I know less about the KDE model then the Gnome one, but I assume it's competant.
Put in a good scripting host and sand box the frigging thing(!) and KDE is gonna make it with the suits. High time for a veebeeaye imp for K tho. I probably'd give it a miss , but it'd draw many windoze drones across to the platform.
I think ERS has kinda hit the nail on the head in this one. We do it because it makes us feel proud of ourself. When we write or contribute to a kicker of a project , and it ends up on a Redhat CD or something, and get an email to the effect of "Wow thanks for that little app, it saved my ass the other day at work". You know it's a good thing
:)
Humans are status seeking beings, where not unlike other critters in that being top dog is something we'd like. Maybe it's some sorta latent mate scoring thing. Maybe its post-animal displaying psychology, but either way putting out the most (excuse the silly s'kiddee phrase) leet app and geting kudo's for it makes us feel valid
We do it because we see ourself as being important in the comunity. And we like our communities, that's why we want to give our little pieces of (questionable) genius to it.
And maybe we might even score (hmmmm).
Perhaps a little MS-fear helps too. Valiantly ahead for linus* and country
*or RMS or ESR or your old CS professor or whoever get's your admiration.
Yeah bloke, I sorta agree, but the thing I note is your refering to 5 year plan projects, and not everyone is talking in that sort of headspace where we can do the whole waterfull-pretty diagram-dfd-usercase-point'o'failure analysis mumbo.
In the industry I'm in, I'm more likely to be hit by management with the "How long will this take?" ME(After back of envelope figurin' "Month & Half to do it properly" Manager: "You've got a week".
A lot of programmers get that sorta thing. Granted that there is gonna be a little noodling with a rough sketch of how it's gonna hang to gether, quite often it's a rough job on an ill-considered designed followed by fixum-hacks because commisioning is tomorrow.
And yeah... The bugs then roll in. I've figured that for every day stripped of a sugested timetable for development, three days are added fixing the mess.
But don't blame the programmers. The "Fixit or fired" managerial aproach kinda forces it
Reverse engineering documents can wait. Commenting'll probably never happen.
It's a shame, but that's life in small business.
Ok. As I'm writing this, I'm using IE 6 on Win XP box (beta 2). I've gotta say it. It Blows bigtime. Now considering that this is a pre RC1 version, my criticisms may be a little off kilter, but unless some of these probs are fixed pronto , I really must stress do *NOT* use this product on any mission , or sanity, critical system.
The bundled CD burner feature has NEVER worked on this machine, it messes up every CD it touches, but disturbingly the OS seems to cause brain snaps for most other CD burning software. I've only just managed to get NERO back into action, fortunately giving me a backup-bailout solution to this XP mess
Search is busted. The cute puppy seems to crash the computer.
Performance has plummeted , on a cel 433(or something) machine with 128meg , the clean installed system choked every step of the way.
My winmodem (which sucks anyway!) won't work now and isn't suported (Microsoft's driver support for XP appears to be "under construction" AFAIKT), so I'm relying on my old external 14K
And the Linux partition seems to of been majikally nuked.(grrrr)
But hey..... I can click on the pretty butterfly to invoke OS-level hotmail suport... I bet that'll get the big iron guys excited about Datacentre
Oh, I can go on, and I'm really just whinging now, but I must stress, I'm not really into the ms-bashing thing. Imho 2000 was great, but I'm dead serious when I say Microsoft has lost the plot.
of course one can always just.... hand over the $5 and get the rom regardless. Theres a gold mine of second hand games cartridges out there.
Have faith dude. Having worked in the legal system (albiet as a lowly techie) Judges can be surprisingly thoughtfull at times. Now I'm speaking from an Aust perspective, but I'd take a bet that the US is not *THAT* different (notwithstanding the whole nonsense of voting for judges)
Microsoft where found to be bad-asses by the court, although the foot to the MS-BUM is yet to be applied as per instructions.
Those guys are much bigger then battlebots.com
If you followed the link it would of seen that the battlebots.org site was a site for IRC war scripts(bots) or something to that effect. More to the point, and infact the only point really is that *The guy (battlebot.ORD) registered the name before battlebots.COM ever existed* Timetravel notwithstanding there is no way on earth that battlebots.COM can get away with demanding that name back.
.org guy to hand over his domain then that's only because the court has screwed up.
Infact I'd say that battlebots.ord has EVERY right to turn around and say "Actually BITCH, you give me YOUR site and apologise and pay me $$$ and even give me some beer you corporate motherfukin' pig."
If a court forces the
Off topic, but has anyone thought how damn funny it would be if some old computer dude had registered the name MICROSOFT in the '60's and then came out and demanded that MS relinquished it's website & got a new name. *THAT*'d be a damn funny domain dispute.
One of the things it's worth mentioning, is that the biological neural net type arangement of the human brain is not necessarily the most efficient arangement of 'stuff' to produce any sort of intelligence. It certainly is a good one, but not necessarrily the best
I think the point is, is that we'd probably be alright if we created pinochio and the thing thought like us.
It's that the thing probably would NOT think like us that is the concern. The thing would not necessarily *have* to be in any way recognisable as intelligent, but simply have to 'think' quicker and deeper, and have for some reason a good reason to supress humans (such as not being turned off!)
In point they don't need to match biology, just provide a viable alternative
CHuck, being somewhat of an old time Forth nut , first let me point out that I'm a big fan. It was(is!) one of the most elegantly simple languages yet blitzkreigingly fast languages I've come across. Everything is a stack. Simple!
Anyway, One of the thing's I've liked about forth is that implementing a simple (subset) compiler for new platforms is stupidly easy for forth, I've rattled of basic compilers for subsets of forth in single days in the past. Was this a design consideration when you designed the language?
We are not angered. You will be assimilated and your diversity will be added to the collective. Resistance is Futile.
.. And of course theres the regular magazine cover Redhat distro's that turn up from time to time. I'm not sure how big the CD on mag cover is in the rest of the world is (I presume it's big everywhere..maybe?) but for my bucks the old $9Aust for Redhat 7.1 and a bunch of passable mag articles is somewhat more cheaper than the $100+aust for Windows 9x or $fartoomuch+aust for Windows servers.
And yeah , it often is a little harder to install than windoze, but at least Linux warns you before (optionally!) nuking your partitions.
..Not always. Finding mystery gremlins in DCOM stuff is neither quick nor easy.... Nor is Rebooting a fecking IIS machine everytime you go to test that little ISAPI thinger and discover you've goofed on a fine point of some undocumented thead thing or whatever....
Windows is pretty, but it's closed source nature can also make it counfoundingly hard sometimes... That applies for non programmer stuff too. Linux does I agree give more flexibility... usually (and completely if microsoft ever ported that nutty office package across).