Actually I don't think it does, If he hates Arabs (which may or may not be true) it does not necessarily mean he can't make a judgement about his own country (which may or may not be true).
Most apps ARE NOT the apps you mention, most apps are bespoke for companies and cost a lot of money, its def where most people are employed, and in my professional opinion most of the UI's are rubbish, I remember one conversation with one of my managers,
Me: "This UI is badly broken, there is X and Y problems" Manager: "Who says they are wrong" Me: "Its not normal its not the way things are expected to work" Manager: "Says Who" Me: "Apple, Microsoft, Sun everyone" Manger: "Bah they have no clue, at NOTSAYING we are the major innovators, those companies have no idea"
This was about some really wierd thing like filling in a form and the order of elements to fill in went up or right to left something like that (if it wasn't we did that sometimes too!)
I'm not saying that this is not valuable information, however if only they had googled before hand they would have noticed that this WAS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT IN 1998! see this story at http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/phys/liquids/p00053d.html
The easiest way (and probably less expensive than everybody replacing thier perfectly ok von neumann comps) would be to run multiple vmware servers in a computer, or user-mode-linux. I take it these problems are partly (if not fully) fixed by VM in kernel. How many times for christ sake has one process taken down your linux box (even windows is pretty hardenned in this regard now), the only real way i can see it happening is it stealing all resources.
Normal(ish) Woman: hey you seen that car Volvo made specifically for women, Feminist: No what's it like Normal(ish) Woman: Oh its quite cool, nice shape, fast, cool silver colour with big wheels. Its mega reliable, so reliable infact that they welded the bonnet shut Feminist: Ok so they create a car for women and weld the bonnet shut, This is a grave insult, they'll regret the day they did this, Quick storm the Volvo car plant....
Seems obvious really. On my xbox I've been trying to get through Rainbow Six (Veteran Difficulty) for about 4 weeks on and off, i've nearly done now but it isn't too bad, Splinter Cell (Hard), PGR2(Silver all the way through) and Voodoo Vince all took me a > 3 weeks very active play but I breazed through XIII in a few days.
Yes there are some easy games with no difficulty level. Infact most games that I would class as hard include difficulty levels (and I put it up quite high).
I bet a lot of the winers use the low difficulty levels.
I haven't read the books but as a film its pretty flakey. the ending was an absolute joke, most people in the cinema were getting on thier coats half an hour before the end, I thought we were going to see him cash his pension book! And what was with that all come into the bedroom and laugh part, that was just wierd, reminded me of a curtain call and dull as hell. Good special effects, reasonable acting and not a lot else.
I've heard of Miss World, but how hot is Miss Earth? is she the Pornstar Miss World? Come to think of it I've never heard of AL00667, perhaps he is one of those mechanical fucking machines you see on the net. yeh that makes sense!
Yeh I agree, the apps tend to be quite up to date, but some things take an absolute age, I think it maybe depends on the maintainer (the X maintainer seems always at a dead stop, it took a whole year nearly for 3 -> 4 as well).
You just have to use unofficial repositries at the same time.
I agree with some parts, the point is they own Java, if they give it away its a great thing, if they don't it neither hurts nor helps. As it is im a reasonably ok java developer who is eye'ing up.Net (like a few other developers I know).
Sun: 'In fact, Sun has contributed more to Open Source than anybody else bar Berkeley [University of California]. We understand Open Source better than anyone else. IBM is just wrapping itself in the flag, but it still behaves like an old-fashioned systems company. Sun is actually taking the risks.'
Me: Erm ok, well they gave us Netbeans under a not-so-good license and OO.o, IBM gave JFS, Eclipse etc, 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
Raymond: 'Sun's insistence on continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the language in the open-source community, ceding the field (and probably the future) to scripting-language competitors like Python and Perl.'
Me: this does demonstrate a massive lack of understanding, Java is not a scripting language or binary its a half and half, however i do remember the difficulty of getting XML into java around 1.2/3, if it was open source it may have been waaay quicker
Sun: 'SUSE has managed to do so without any problems.'
Me: I can't download an ISO of the SUSE CD, SUSE is one of the least OSS friendly distro's that is out. YAST is closed source, is it surprising that they put Java on it. Infact SUSE is all around pretty horrible, hopefully Novell/Ximian will clean it up a little.
Sun: 'Java is already everywhere.'
Me: yeh.Net has a huge mindshare atm as well tho. I'd dearly love to know what your going to do when parts of the GNOME core are wrote in C#. Opening Java would have saved you this, If Linux/Gnome/Mono becomes the next desktop your going to be in a worse situation that OpenGL Vs DirectX on Windows. I
Sun: 'The question he should really be asking is why has no-one else offered to create an Open Source version of Java. Maybe because it's on the 'too hard'
Me: Harder than Apache? harder than the Linux Kernel? Java includes huge parts of open source already as it is. I mean come on. Open Sourcing something at its easiest is no harder than stripping out the 3rd party libs and sticking up a tgz, its a long way off perfect but it'd quiet down the masses.
I did the solder TSOP thingy on 2 of my xbox's, I got one cheap server for Mail and DNS as well as one very cool entertainment system which includes MP3, DVD (Multi Region) loads of cool emulators as well as some pretty good XBox games and online play (XLink Messenger).
A Highly spec'd PC (which im probably getting for Doom3) could do all this, but the XBox is way more social with interfaces that are good on TV. I also often stick the thing in a backpack and it round to a friends house for some great 2 lan gaming which would be a much bigger operation with PC's.
So yes, the XBox has far outweighed my expectations.
If you hadn't realised it was taking the piss of the poster, i ^C^V his post and changed some words to what he meant to write:-)
I do totally disagree with "Marking up to standards shouldn't be harder than marking up to a certain browser", this isn't the case even with Firefox, It renders shit (x)html, sometimes even after you specify xhtml1.1 (I once missed the last " of an attribute and it looked no different. I guess its more important whether it renders correct code correctly rather than definetly breaking on shit code. The w3c has a pretty neat verify service to check its ok
Unless you want your old customer's bitching at you that your page no longer works properly you have no other choice thant to follow the standards, and even if MS abandon all support for rendering HTML in a half sensible way, you do at least have the option of saying "Its valid (X)HTML, ets a bug in IE, not my problem".
I code up PHP/CSS webpages and recently wondered if coding to standards is worth the hassle. We know that each browser supports CSS a little bit differently than the others, and that something that avoids the few troublesome stles works perfectly but I'm too fucking lazy. The net is littered with pages done by people who code for IE and then as an aftertought hack Mozilla onto the top. Looking through two years worth of saved webalizer statistics, 95% of my visits came from IE and the rest from Mozilla, with such a large market share why should I care about standards or about Mozilla. Even the traffic to my site two years ago resulting from this article sent 50% IE users on Windows XP, and the total was 95% from IE. The numbers have only grown more IE 6-dominant since then. Given the overwhelming Internet Explorer user base, unless your webpage is specifically targeting The *nix or Mac crowd why not just target only IE that way I can abandon the crazy idea of writing decent HTML.
You can't be serious. you have to register to get any sort of access (agreeing to T&C), You then get asked to follow three steps, one of which is agree to one of the RPSL or RCSL licenses. They may be ok licenses but i can't be arsed to read them (and they are wrapped up in another click wrap). I then get an 18 line guide at how to get Helixplayer which includes checking it out of CVS!
I think I'll come back in two years when they have probably released it under GPL and when there is anywhere near a convenient way to get damn thing. For now I'm sticking with MPlayer and the Windows Libs.
Yeh i agree, no prob with sniper at all mostly the level, In a lot of films with snipers there is like a sniper alley and one sniper that takes down say 5 people, i think Full Metal Jacket had one, although don't flame if im wrong. if you could always go around it would be like, "right sniper in that building, lets go round and take him from behind / side" except on the sortof storm the base levels, but then they should be near impossible anyway (with points scored to reflect this)
if an autocue says "brr its chilly" the presenter says "brr its chilly" whether he/she thinks so or not. as a lot of presenters just read of autocue's is it any more lying to read off an autocue somewhere hot than somewhere cold, i don't think so (btw i don't know whether he uses an autocue or not, but some do, which i think is enough to justify my opinion)
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Actually I don't think it does, If he hates Arabs (which may or may not be true) it does not necessarily mean he can't make a judgement about his own country (which may or may not be true).
No the US just had a score to settle (and according to Micheal Moore, a pipeline to build)
Call me mad but i don't believe there should be a space about 8 chars from the end of each line
Don't know about speed, but the rule system is also waaay more readable
Most apps ARE NOT the apps you mention, most apps are bespoke for companies and cost a lot of money, its def where most people are employed, and in my professional opinion most of the UI's are rubbish, I remember one conversation with one of my managers,
Me: "This UI is badly broken, there is X and Y problems"
Manager: "Who says they are wrong"
Me: "Its not normal its not the way things are expected to work"
Manager: "Says Who"
Me: "Apple, Microsoft, Sun everyone"
Manger: "Bah they have no clue, at NOTSAYING we are the major innovators, those companies have no idea"
This was about some really wierd thing like filling in a form and the order of elements to fill in went up or right to left something like that (if it wasn't we did that sometimes too!)
If you'd googled before posting you would have seen http://qtcsharp.sourceforge.net/
I'm not saying that this is not valuable information, however if only they had googled before hand they would have noticed that this WAS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT IN 1998! see this story at http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/phys/liquids /p00053d.html
The easiest way (and probably less expensive than everybody replacing thier perfectly ok von neumann comps) would be to run multiple vmware servers in a computer, or user-mode-linux. I take it these problems are partly (if not fully) fixed by VM in kernel. How many times for christ sake has one process taken down your linux box (even windows is pretty hardenned in this regard now), the only real way i can see it happening is it stealing all resources.
I didn't fancy flash rubbish and just wanted to see what it was about so "basic" it is, then 404. Oh dear, pretty poor for a major commercial site.
Normal(ish) Woman: hey you seen that car Volvo made specifically for women,
Feminist: No what's it like
Normal(ish) Woman: Oh its quite cool, nice shape, fast, cool silver colour with big wheels. Its mega reliable, so reliable infact that they welded the bonnet shut
Feminist: Ok so they create a car for women and weld the bonnet shut, This is a grave insult, they'll regret the day they did this, Quick storm the Volvo car plant....
Seems obvious really. On my xbox I've been trying to get through Rainbow Six (Veteran Difficulty) for about 4 weeks on and off, i've nearly done now but it isn't too bad, Splinter Cell (Hard), PGR2(Silver all the way through) and Voodoo Vince all took me a > 3 weeks very active play but I breazed through XIII in a few days.
Yes there are some easy games with no difficulty level. Infact most games that I would class as hard include difficulty levels (and I put it up quite high).
I bet a lot of the winers use the low difficulty levels.
I haven't read the books but as a film its pretty flakey. the ending was an absolute joke, most people in the cinema were getting on thier coats half an hour before the end, I thought we were going to see him cash his pension book! And what was with that all come into the bedroom and laugh part, that was just wierd, reminded me of a curtain call and dull as hell. Good special effects, reasonable acting and not a lot else.
I've heard of Miss World, but how hot is Miss Earth? is she the Pornstar Miss World? Come to think of it I've never heard of AL00667, perhaps he is one of those mechanical fucking machines you see on the net. yeh that makes sense!
Yeh I agree, the apps tend to be quite up to date, but some things take an absolute age, I think it maybe depends on the maintainer (the X maintainer seems always at a dead stop, it took a whole year nearly for 3 -> 4 as well).
You just have to use unofficial repositries at the same time.
I agree with some parts, the point is they own Java, if they give it away its a great thing, if they don't it neither hurts nor helps. As it is im a reasonably ok java developer who is eye'ing up .Net (like a few other developers I know).
.Net has a huge mindshare atm as well tho. I'd dearly love to know what your going to do when parts of the GNOME core are wrote in C#. Opening Java would have saved you this, If Linux/Gnome/Mono becomes the next desktop your going to be in a worse situation that OpenGL Vs DirectX on Windows. I
Sun: 'In fact, Sun has contributed more to Open Source than anybody else bar Berkeley [University of California]. We understand Open Source better than anyone else. IBM is just wrapping itself in the flag, but it still behaves like an old-fashioned systems company. Sun is actually taking the risks.'
Me: Erm ok, well they gave us Netbeans under a not-so-good license and OO.o, IBM gave JFS, Eclipse etc, 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
Raymond: 'Sun's insistence on continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the language in the open-source community, ceding the field (and probably the future) to scripting-language competitors like Python and Perl.'
Me: this does demonstrate a massive lack of understanding, Java is not a scripting language or binary its a half and half, however i do remember the difficulty of getting XML into java around 1.2/3, if it was open source it may have been waaay quicker
Sun: 'SUSE has managed to do so without any problems.'
Me: I can't download an ISO of the SUSE CD, SUSE is one of the least OSS friendly distro's that is out. YAST is closed source, is it surprising that they put Java on it. Infact SUSE is all around pretty horrible, hopefully Novell/Ximian will clean it up a little.
Sun: 'Java is already everywhere.'
Me: yeh
Sun: 'The question he should really be asking is why has no-one else offered to create an Open Source version of Java. Maybe because it's on the 'too hard'
Me: Harder than Apache? harder than the Linux Kernel? Java includes huge parts of open source already as it is. I mean come on. Open Sourcing something at its easiest is no harder than stripping out the 3rd party libs and sticking up a tgz, its a long way off perfect but it'd quiet down the masses.
"My personal interpretation is that the "software" is the actual binaries"
Erm right, so we have to rely on David Dawes "interpretation"? I can understand RedHat not being too happy with the fuzziness.
Can't the amiga do alpha transparency (look along the diagonal edges of the icons)? or are these just beta icons?
I did the solder TSOP thingy on 2 of my xbox's, I got one cheap server for Mail and DNS as well as one very cool entertainment system which includes MP3, DVD (Multi Region) loads of cool emulators as well as some pretty good XBox games and online play (XLink Messenger).
A Highly spec'd PC (which im probably getting for Doom3) could do all this, but the XBox is way more social with interfaces that are good on TV. I also often stick the thing in a backpack and it round to a friends house for some great 2 lan gaming which would be a much bigger operation with PC's.
So yes, the XBox has far outweighed my expectations.
If you hadn't realised it was taking the piss of the poster, i ^C^V his post and changed some words to what he meant to write :-)
I do totally disagree with "Marking up to standards shouldn't be harder than marking up to a certain browser", this isn't the case even with Firefox, It renders shit (x)html, sometimes even after you specify xhtml1.1 (I once missed the last " of an attribute and it looked no different. I guess its more important whether it renders correct code correctly rather than definetly breaking on shit code. The w3c has a pretty neat verify service to check its ok
Unless you want your old customer's bitching at you that your page no longer works properly you have no other choice thant to follow the standards, and even if MS abandon all support for rendering HTML in a half sensible way, you do at least have the option of saying "Its valid (X)HTML, ets a bug in IE, not my problem".
I code up PHP/CSS webpages and recently wondered if coding to standards is worth the hassle. We know that each browser supports CSS a little bit differently than the others, and that something that avoids the few troublesome stles works perfectly but I'm too fucking lazy. The net is littered with pages done by people who code for IE and then as an aftertought hack Mozilla onto the top. Looking through two years worth of saved webalizer statistics, 95% of my visits came from IE and the rest from Mozilla, with such a large market share why should I care about standards or about Mozilla. Even the traffic to my site two years ago resulting from this article sent 50% IE users on Windows XP, and the total was 95% from IE. The numbers have only grown more IE 6-dominant since then. Given the overwhelming Internet Explorer user base, unless your webpage is specifically targeting The *nix or Mac crowd why not just target only IE that way I can abandon the crazy idea of writing decent HTML.
You can't be serious. you have to register to get any sort of access (agreeing to T&C), You then get asked to follow three steps, one of which is agree to one of the RPSL or RCSL licenses. They may be ok licenses but i can't be arsed to read them (and they are wrapped up in another click wrap). I then get an 18 line guide at how to get Helixplayer which includes checking it out of CVS!
I think I'll come back in two years when they have probably released it under GPL and when there is anywhere near a convenient way to get damn thing. For now I'm sticking with MPlayer and the Windows Libs.
Yeh i agree, no prob with sniper at all mostly the level, In a lot of films with snipers there is like a sniper alley and one sniper that takes down say 5 people, i think Full Metal Jacket had one, although don't flame if im wrong. if you could always go around it would be like, "right sniper in that building, lets go round and take him from behind / side" except on the sortof storm the base levels, but then they should be near impossible anyway (with points scored to reflect this)
if an autocue says "brr its chilly" the presenter says "brr its chilly" whether he/she thinks so or not. as a lot of presenters just read of autocue's is it any more lying to read off an autocue somewhere hot than somewhere cold, i don't think so (btw i don't know whether he uses an autocue or not, but some do, which i think is enough to justify my opinion)
There are cheaper solutions such as Hush ATX and the Hush ITX computers