"Compared to Linux it's lightning fast. At least as far as X-apps go."
I strongly disagree. I have found that MSwindows gives the _perception_ of 'feeling faster'.
Often times in MSwindows you have to wait for an app to close or open or get out of the way. During this time you cannot perform any tasks; however, you can still move the mouse around perfectly. In reality, windows is being a slow window manager, but it doesn't feel that way because you can still move the mouse around.
While in Xwindows, when the system slows down, you feel it because the mouse responce slows down as well, but you can still work. A good test of this is to start about half a dozen apps at once: windows will slow down to an inoperative level, you may be able to move the mouse, but you can't _do_ anything. While in Xwindows the mouse will move sluggishly, but you can still click and type and do things; meanwhile in windows clicks and typing seem to be ignored -- I always thought that was very strange.
I have @home and I have reached d/l speeds well over 300kbps and uploads over 50kbps, but I don't do much uploading, so I don't know how fast I could possibly go. (my cap is 512down/128up)
And this is because having '@home' means nothing. @home is not your cable company.
That is an effect of the AA algorithm. A good algorithm will not make small fonts look smudged. But if it happens, then it should be fixed and not worked around.
I was watching an evil 'encrypted' DVD the other day and I could swear that some muslims had put in some evil, homoseximal, subliminabbble suggestions.
Damn those worshipers of God and their Fight Club.
The problem with first time buyers that do not know the difference between a Mac and a PC, is that about half of those who end up with a candy coated iMac feel cheated when they learn that the rest of the world uses Windows and they cannot find cheap wares and run the email-screensaver-virus that their cousin sent them.
They come into Babbages all bug-eyed, looking for video games for their children; and they buy a copy of the Sims for windows.
You can't be mad at the sales person that steers customers towards PC's. They are saving that customer money and pain.
This is a bad time for computer makers, especially luxury computers. And it hurts to think different (right now).
When I first heard of MathML I was very excited. I had been doing all of my math in LaTeX. But for writing I sometimes prefered HTML because of it was interpreted (faster), cleaner in some respects, and graphically stronger (nested tables, images, colors).
And then I laid my eyes on some sample MathML.
To write (a+b)^2 in MathML you would have to do this (paraphrased from the W3C's page).
This is nothing new, MathML1.0 looked just as bad, pure shit infact. It was never intended to be written or read by hand, but to be a low level, generallity of math typesetting. And this begs the question, what the fuck is it for? It is ML and therefore it is highlevel, all those tags don't make it any more readable by a computer, like <MO>+</MO> wow plus is a math operator, no shit. TeX powerful enough to describe everything mathmatical, and simple enough to write by hand. Why?
Why, why, why? We don't write javascript with tags. I for one won't write anything unless I can do a <MATH LANG="TeX">.
They claim they are trying to make you a programmer. This page describes their.page-format, as an alternative to html.
Pity they haven't understood what (proper) html is about. They've gone and created this visual,
contextless (or meaningless, if you will) markup-language, which is converted to equally rotten html. They also claim for "dynamic" pages, which, as I see it is a rather poor excuse for limited, and limiting server-side scripting.
Have you ever tried to write HTML inside C/Perl/Python? It's a bitch.
They can both run legacy 32bit code without recompile.
The Intel is a completely different proc. It translates the old code into native code before running it. Recompiling the code is like porting to a completely different platform.
The AMD is a fancy i86 with 64bit registers. It will run old code as any i386 would. But code has to be recompiled to use the new 64bit registers much like with MMX.
Windows has already announced support for the Itanium. But the Sledgehammer should be much easier to support if Mickeysoft decides to, and the Sledgehammer should be able to run old code faster.
Personally, I will choose which ever has the best performance/price ratio, like I always have with K6's and Celerons.
The Gameboy is the top selling console of all time, thanks to Pokeman.
But what I am worried about is that The Gamecube will be another N64: Incredible hardware used for nothing but taking pictures of chipochumon and playing Mario party.
Don't get me wrong, I love Goldeneye, Turok, and Zelda, but I need more.
Nintendo has made many choices in the past to keep their child audience. They removed the blood from Mortal Kombat. They removed the Nazi's from Wolfenstein 3D and changed the attack dogs to rats.
I am not buying a child's console; even if Metroid is the shit.
The votes are recounted and are tied, except one last vote. The vote is electronic. Some radioactive isotope decays and two correlated gamma's are let loose. One of the photons strikes an electron and may have changed one bit in memory, but was it spin up or spin down, was it 1 or 0.
Until that vote is tabulated we exist with a superposition of a 1/100(48*Bush + 49*Gore + 3*Nader) president elect wave function.
If we put all of the canidates in a secret room with a device that will read the last vote and allow us to communicate with the winner via IRQ . . . No wait, the 'observe spelling and grammar eigenvalue' operator will measure and collapse the wavefunction.
The ps2 has long passed the Dreamcast in Japan. In Japan Nintendo and Sony are kings, with Sega a distant third, but not hurting too badly. The PS2 has already made it. My god the thing is sold out until xmas, and I have only seen one commercial that only lasted 3 seconds. The xbox too late to hurt the Dreamcast or the PS2.
And to even think about the Xbox is pointless. It doesn't exist; it's a friggin peecee; and Nintendo's next system already looks better than the hype that Microsoft has presented. The argument that this article makes: that the Xbox is like some kind of free gift to developers, only having to pay $900 for the Visual Programming suite as opposed to $25000 for a dev kit is silly. Does he even have any understanding of how much investment it takes to make a good game. I know developers complain about these costs, but for christs sakes, you don't care about porting shareware games.
And I swear if one more idiot programmer complains about how hard it is to program, then they need to go write visual basic games for the xbox. Low level coding for consoles is hard work. The nintendo was tough; the snes was hard as hell: it had all those funny chips; the saturn was a multi cpu nightmare: it had dual procs and 2 gpu's. So what if the EE is harder to work with than the genisis or the ps1, tuff titty.
Tipper's attacks were directed against the artists and heavy metal in particular: JPriest, AC/CD, Ozzy. It was nothing but scapegoat outrage to get unhappy, crusty, old bitches to vote for her husband. I seem to remember her also being on that committie against RPGs; what was it, 'mothers against D&D' or something. It was a part of the whole satanism scare of the 80's. I swear, one day christians will realize that satanists are laughing at them.
The person that takes away my Ozzy and nethack will be the first against the wall.
________________
You are equiped with a -2 cursed mouse (1 button, apple)
You cannot unequip the mouse
run in DGA full screen mode, not a maximized window
run at nice -n-10
You see, the problem is not that X is bad. It is that linux/*BSD and X are treating your video games as equals to everything else running.
BTW I thought the new Windows GUI looks pretty. I would say that it looks just as nice as MacOS9, but then people would start flaming me, so I won't say that.
The file names and stuff are made with ASCII characters. Why limit everyone to what one person thinks is best. In the future when every character is unicode are we going to limit everyone to the lowercase roman alphabet.
There is nothing that prevents someone from having all of their files in one case. If all of the files are in one case, then how can anyone complain?
And if you want to complain that it takes extra effort to type in the name Myfile.doc then why the hell did you take the extra effort to name it that in the first place. Besides, most Mac and Windows people are going to use a GUI anyhow and are just going to point and click at the file name. When you are just pointing and clicking then how does that make things any worse.
In the case of national security, the government could use modified GPL code and not have to release the code.
The GPL doesn't force you to release everything you write. It is just that the government could not then take that code and sell or license it to anyone without passing on all of the freedoms they recieved with the original code.
And if that modified GPL code is for super secret stuff, then it is not like they are going to be distributing it around anyhow.
Off course there are limits to how much information they can hold in the electron, but those are limits of practicality.
Consider an electron on hydrogen with a quantized energy level n (an integer). Let n be our stored data. How big can n be? How much data can we store? Just because n is an integer doesn't mean that there are finite n's. n can be as big as we want.
But in practice, as n gets very large the difference between n and n+1 is very small and very hard to distinguish. This is where Quantum Mechanics begins to look like Classical Mechanics. Where things seem continuous but are really just big floating point number.
And where the hell are you going to put an atom with an orbit as big as a bacteria cell.
Now with more complicated atoms you have more electrons and more states. Say you had 8 electrons in the outer shell, each with quantum numbers n, l, s, m_l, and m_s. Then you have a lot more room to store info before you reach the limits of practicality.
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"Compared to Linux it's lightning fast. At least as far as X-apps go."
I strongly disagree. I have found that MSwindows gives the _perception_ of 'feeling faster'.
Often times in MSwindows you have to wait for an app to close or open or get out of the way. During this time you cannot perform any tasks; however, you can still move the mouse around perfectly. In reality, windows is being a slow window manager, but it doesn't feel that way because you can still move the mouse around.
While in Xwindows, when the system slows down, you feel it because the mouse responce slows down as well, but you can still work. A good test of this is to start about half a dozen apps at once: windows will slow down to an inoperative level, you may be able to move the mouse, but you can't _do_ anything. While in Xwindows the mouse will move sluggishly, but you can still click and type and do things; meanwhile in windows clicks and typing seem to be ignored -- I always thought that was very strange.
I have @home and I have reached d/l speeds well over 300kbps and uploads over 50kbps, but I don't do much uploading, so I don't know how fast I could possibly go. (my cap is 512down/128up)
And this is because having '@home' means nothing. @home is not your cable company.
"and I don't think that anyone had been able to find flaws in the mathamatical proof."
Here is your mathematical proof.
From the flat earth web site
"5) Does the "middle corner" prove that 5=6?"
" Yes."
Done.
Proof by contradiction.
That was easy.
That is an effect of the AA algorithm. A good algorithm will not make small fonts look smudged. But if it happens, then it should be fixed and not worked around.
I was watching an evil 'encrypted' DVD the other day and I could swear that some muslims had put in some evil, homoseximal, subliminabbble suggestions.
Damn those worshipers of God and their Fight Club.
The problem with first time buyers that do not know the difference between a Mac and a PC, is that about half of those who end up with a candy coated iMac feel cheated when they learn that the rest of the world uses Windows and they cannot find cheap wares and run the email-screensaver-virus that their cousin sent them.
They come into Babbages all bug-eyed, looking for video games for their children; and they buy a copy of the Sims for windows.
You can't be mad at the sales person that steers customers towards PC's. They are saving that customer money and pain.
This is a bad time for computer makers, especially luxury computers. And it hurts to think different (right now).
I had suspected that many television programs were using the same old document classes over and over.
When I first heard of MathML I was very excited. I had been doing all of my math in LaTeX. But for writing I sometimes prefered HTML because of it was interpreted (faster), cleaner in some respects, and graphically stronger (nested tables, images, colors).
And then I laid my eyes on some sample MathML.
To write (a+b)^2 in MathML you would have to do this (paraphrased from the W3C's page).
<MATH>
<MROW>
<MSUP>
<MFENCED>
<MROW>
<MI>a</MI>
<MO>+</MO>
<MI>b</MI>
</MROW>
<MFENCED>
<MN>2</MN>
<MSUP>
<MROW>
</MATH>
Whereas in LaTeX, you would write $(a+b)^2$.
This is nothing new, MathML1.0 looked just as bad, pure shit infact. It was never intended to be written or read by hand, but to be a low level, generallity of math typesetting. And this begs the question, what the fuck is it for? It is ML and therefore it is highlevel, all those tags don't make it any more readable by a computer, like <MO>+</MO> wow plus is a math operator, no shit. TeX powerful enough to describe everything mathmatical, and simple enough to write by hand. Why?
Why, why, why? We don't write javascript with tags. I for one won't write anything unless I can do a <MATH LANG="TeX">.
Just wait for the next IceAge and you will have a perfectly good land bridge.
It was good enough for migrating native americans and it will be good enough to ship kuppie dolls from asia.
They claim they are trying to make you a programmer. This page describes their .page-format, as an alternative to html.
Pity they haven't understood what (proper) html is about. They've gone and created this visual, contextless (or meaningless, if you will) markup-language, which is converted to equally rotten html. They also claim for "dynamic" pages, which, as I see it is a rather poor excuse for limited, and limiting server-side scripting.
Have you ever tried to write HTML inside C/Perl/Python?
It's a bitch.
A car that burns half as much gas will run twice as long.
But will it cover more distance?
They can both run legacy 32bit code without recompile.
The Intel is a completely different proc. It translates the old code into native code before running it. Recompiling the code is like porting to a completely different platform.
The AMD is a fancy i86 with 64bit registers. It will run old code as any i386 would. But code has to be recompiled to use the new 64bit registers much like with MMX.
Windows has already announced support for the Itanium. But the Sledgehammer should be much easier to support if Mickeysoft decides to, and the Sledgehammer should be able to run old code faster.
Personally, I will choose which ever has the best performance/price ratio, like I always have with K6's and Celerons.
The Gameboy is the top selling console of all time, thanks to Pokeman.
But what I am worried about is that The Gamecube will be another N64: Incredible hardware used for nothing but taking pictures of chipochumon and playing Mario party.
Don't get me wrong, I love Goldeneye, Turok, and Zelda, but I need more.
Nintendo has made many choices in the past to keep their child audience. They removed the blood from Mortal Kombat. They removed the Nazi's from Wolfenstein 3D and changed the attack dogs to rats.
I am not buying a child's console; even if Metroid is the shit.
/etc/X11/fs/config
default-point-size
The votes are recounted and are tied, except one last vote. The vote is electronic. Some radioactive isotope decays and two correlated gamma's are let loose. One of the photons strikes an electron and may have changed one bit in memory, but was it spin up or spin down, was it 1 or 0.
Until that vote is tabulated we exist with a superposition of a 1/100(48*Bush + 49*Gore + 3*Nader) president elect wave function.
If we put all of the canidates in a secret room with a device that will read the last vote and allow us to communicate with the winner via IRQ . . . No wait, the 'observe spelling and grammar eigenvalue' operator will measure and collapse the wavefunction.
Oh well
The ps2 has long passed the Dreamcast in Japan. In Japan Nintendo and Sony are kings, with Sega a distant third, but not hurting too badly. The PS2 has already made it. My god the thing is sold out until xmas, and I have only seen one commercial that only lasted 3 seconds. The xbox too late to hurt the Dreamcast or the PS2.
And to even think about the Xbox is pointless. It doesn't exist; it's a friggin peecee; and Nintendo's next system already looks better than the hype that Microsoft has presented. The argument that this article makes: that the Xbox is like some kind of free gift to developers, only having to pay $900 for the Visual Programming suite as opposed to $25000 for a dev kit is silly. Does he even have any understanding of how much investment it takes to make a good game. I know developers complain about these costs, but for christs sakes, you don't care about porting shareware games.
And I swear if one more idiot programmer complains about how hard it is to program, then they need to go write visual basic games for the xbox. Low level coding for consoles is hard work. The nintendo was tough; the snes was hard as hell: it had all those funny chips; the saturn was a multi cpu nightmare: it had dual procs and 2 gpu's. So what if the EE is harder to work with than the genisis or the ps1, tuff titty.
Tipper's attacks were directed against the artists and heavy metal in particular: JPriest, AC/CD, Ozzy. It was nothing but scapegoat outrage to get unhappy, crusty, old bitches to vote for her husband. I seem to remember her also being on that committie against RPGs; what was it, 'mothers against D&D' or something. It was a part of the whole satanism scare of the 80's. I swear, one day christians will realize that satanists are laughing at them.
The person that takes away my Ozzy and nethack will be the first against the wall.
________________
You are equiped with a -2 cursed mouse (1 button, apple)
You cannot unequip the mouse
BS
Aqua is still second at most
I read the title and I thought they had invented that floating skate board from the second back to the future movie
god I want one of those, and a lightsaber too.
You see, the problem is not that X is bad. It is that linux/*BSD and X are treating your video games as equals to everything else running.
BTW I thought the new Windows GUI looks pretty. I would say that it looks just as nice as MacOS9, but then people would start flaming me, so I won't say that.
The answer is "Why not?"
The file names and stuff are made with ASCII characters. Why limit everyone to what one person thinks is best. In the future when every character is unicode are we going to limit everyone to the lowercase roman alphabet.
There is nothing that prevents someone from having all of their files in one case. If all of the files are in one case, then how can anyone complain?
And if you want to complain that it takes extra effort to type in the name Myfile.doc then why the hell did you take the extra effort to name it that in the first place. Besides, most Mac and Windows people are going to use a GUI anyhow and are just going to point and click at the file name. When you are just pointing and clicking then how does that make things any worse.
In the case of national security, the government could use modified GPL code and not have to release the code.
The GPL doesn't force you to release everything you write. It is just that the government could not then take that code and sell or license it to anyone without passing on all of the freedoms they recieved with the original code.
And if that modified GPL code is for super secret stuff, then it is not like they are going to be distributing it around anyhow.
My understanding of quantum gravity is weak. Please answer me this question.
Given that space time is quantized: space is a foam and time is sliced into Plank seconds.
How does that say that I cannot make my quantum numbers n and l as large as I like?
I know there are practical limits, but theoretically how does a foamy space-time restrict things like that.
Off course there are limits to how much information they can hold in the electron, but those are limits of practicality.
Consider an electron on hydrogen with a quantized energy level n (an integer). Let n be our stored data. How big can n be? How much data can we store? Just because n is an integer doesn't mean that there are finite n's. n can be as big as we want.
But in practice, as n gets very large the difference between n and n+1 is very small and very hard to distinguish. This is where Quantum Mechanics begins to look like Classical Mechanics. Where things seem continuous but are really just big floating point number.
And where the hell are you going to put an atom with an orbit as big as a bacteria cell.
Now with more complicated atoms you have more electrons and more states. Say you had 8 electrons in the outer shell, each with quantum numbers n, l, s, m_l, and m_s. Then you have a lot more room to store info before you reach the limits of practicality.