Making windows games playable (with varying success) on Linux is just another example of playing catch-up. Like the other examples, this one mainly serves the purpose of showing PHBs and Microserfs that Linux is equally capable as Windows.
What is so difficult about the fact that Linux is better than Windows because it is different. Of course this means that it is better in certain tasks, and worse in some.
If things end up in a situation where we have a complete Windows UI and API sitting on top of Linux, you might just as well run the real thing.
Now that's objective. I'm sure Guido agrees with me that Python is better, even not counting the OO features.
Gotta admit that Python is probably the only computing environment I've encountered, which is both easy to learn and powerful in the long run.
The downside is, of course, Python's more restricted syntax. I'd say Python and Perl codes compare like technical manuals and poetry. But when programming I'll rather take the tech (TeX:) route.
> Unless you live in London.. if there anything going to happen in Europe it gonna be london....
Shit! Living in Cambridge, 50 miles off London. What was the blast radius of an H-bomb again? This really worries me. I better stay off work, stay home and read/. intensely to keep up with latest news on/osm/bin/laden.
Nobody is forced to use M$ software. It's 1984 if we lose choice entirely. If people want to use such limited and biased word processors, it's their choice. But I guess 10^n flies can't be wrong...
Nice tricks, but what if someone there has half a clue and they realize you're faking the OS? Dunno if you'd get into trouble eventually, but it might take a lot of explaining.. and it's not usually good to piss off those officers. It's like the smart-asses who send flour or something in letters to mimic anthrax deliveries.
The Bad : it emulates binaries, which ain't new and is just important for closed source stuff
Why is this so Bad? It's probably easier for many people (esp. end users) than recompiling, which would probably involve some level of porting of the program. And there are lots of Linux binaries available already.
There's nothing bad about increasing the potential user base of an open source program. For many people it makes no difference if it's beer not speech free. And after they have it running, we can hint at the fact that it would run better and faster on linux...:-)
Sounds like a dream. If this really works. I'm seeing slight problems, especially with non-unix systems: for example the fact that Windows is still kind of case-insensitive in filenames. And multi-user management, etc. But these are quite minor issues. For something requiring high security you would probably want to choose a native app.
The nasty drawback is that people would release more closed-source software.
Not necessarily. Those who write open software would have very little reasons to change their philosophy. There would still be the chance to compile (if possible) to get the best performance.
The really interesting thing is, if we stress the fact that those apps will run better and faster on Linux. Sadly, I think that's just the reason companie$ will keep this from happening. Platform locking is done even when it's not technically required.
I have chosen the Canon G1. It's really a gem among the hyped up market, with features that are actually useful and not gee whiz candy. Compared to professional cameras, it's only missing SLR and changeable lenses -- but then again it's the size of a 35mm point'n shoot. And the 3x zoom lens has macro and telephoto adapters available.
Linux compatilibity comes via USB (gphoto2), though I prefer a PC Card adapter to read the CF card directly. The camera can also use Microdrives of (currently) 1 GB.
The new G2 version has just come out, but the differences are not very stunning (4Mpix instead of 3.3).
I don't know about hackability (maybe via the binary-only firmware updates), but I'm more interested in 'photo geek' features which let you choose every possible setting when taking photos.
Unfortunately, one interesting feature requires the use of a windoze: creating panorama pictures from multiple shots. This is now the only reason I'm left with a windoze partition:-/
Argv! I thought the aim of governments is to get things done securely and reliably, without going BSOD, and for a reasonable price. Also, M$ is not exactly a charity that needs to be supported by the government to survive.
If the changeover in Germay takes place, there will probably be a substantial number of jobs created for opensource hackers. In that case, not all the M$ license money is saved, but at least the money goes for those who need it.
Re:This feature is built into the WIN XP license
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Who the fuck does MS think that they are putting something in the license that says that they can control what I have on my computer just b/c i use their OS? Excuse me but I own my computer, I own my HD, and I own their OS. They don't own me.
"The things
you own end up owning you." - Tyler Durden
So.. if you get yourself lots of RAM for a fast disk, then when you run out of working memory, just make some swap on that drive! It's almost as fast as real memory!
Oh, wait.. why am I recalling the joke about a solar powered flashlight?
The basic requirement of superconductance is that electrons go bosonic, whereby a huge number of them can reach the same quantum state. So in a way there is B-E condensation in superconductors, but only that of electron pairs, not entire atoms as in the 1995 experiment.
BEC of atoms is not terribly exciting news for superconductance, unless you want super-transfer of atoms instead of electrons.
IIRC Moore's law refers to the number of transistors on a chip. And we already know that processing power does not exactly increase with GHz. Any figures on the real speed of that beast?
On the other hand, I'm more interested in reducing power consumption. My laptop hogs at most 30W, modern desktops may use ten times that. I'm sick of hearing of California's power outages and the like, when the technology for power saving is already there.
The City of Turku, the oldest and one of the largest cities in Finland, is planning on a switch to Linux + OpenOffice in order to save the XP license money. Links here and here.
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Perl, It's my new obsession
Perl!~/\?/
Perls on the neck of your lover
'coz Perl gives you stuff to discover
Perl at the bin in my /usr
- you could be my dromedaryPerl, cos you are no luser
Perl, it's the coding with passion
cos() today it just goes with the Slashdot
'coz Perl is a lingo so scary
Perl likes its vars with the dollar
it's curled but you don't ever tell 'er, yeah I want to be your regex
I wanna doc you in latex
Perl on the screens that we key on
Perl, do I hate that one python, yeah
*Homer J. Simpson pronouncing 'Uruguay'*
(no http:// coz I fail to understand what it has to do with domain names)
What is so difficult about the fact that Linux is better than Windows because it is different. Of course this means that it is better in certain tasks, and worse in some.
If things end up in a situation where we have a complete Windows UI and API sitting on top of Linux, you might just as well run the real thing.
Gotta admit that Python is probably the only computing environment I've encountered, which is both easy to learn and powerful in the long run.
The downside is, of course, Python's more restricted syntax. I'd say Python and Perl codes compare like technical manuals and poetry. But when programming I'll rather take the tech (TeX :) route.
> Unless you live in London.. if there anything going to happen in Europe it gonna be london....
Shit! Living in Cambridge, 50 miles off London. What was the blast radius of an H-bomb again? This really worries me. I better stay off work, stay home and read /. intensely to keep up with latest news on /osm/bin/laden.
Nobody is forced to use M$ software. It's 1984 if we lose choice entirely. If people want to use such limited and biased word processors, it's their choice. But I guess 10^n flies can't be wrong...
Linux: :)
Windows: XP
Nice tricks, but what if someone there has half a clue and they realize you're faking the OS? Dunno if you'd get into trouble eventually, but it might take a lot of explaining.. and it's not usually good to piss off those officers. It's like the smart-asses who send flour or something in letters to mimic anthrax deliveries.
Would a laptop running XP count as one?
here.
Why is this so Bad? It's probably easier for many people (esp. end users) than recompiling, which would probably involve some level of porting of the program. And there are lots of Linux binaries available already.
There's nothing bad about increasing the potential user base of an open source program. For many people it makes no difference if it's beer not speech free. And after they have it running, we can hint at the fact that it would run better and faster on linux ... :-)
The nasty drawback is that people would release more closed-source software.
Not necessarily. Those who write open software would have very little reasons to change their philosophy. There would still be the chance to compile (if possible) to get the best performance.
The really interesting thing is, if we stress the fact that those apps will run better and faster on Linux. Sadly, I think that's just the reason companie$ will keep this from happening. Platform locking is done even when it's not technically required.
I have chosen the Canon G1. It's really a gem among the hyped up market, with features that are actually useful and not gee whiz candy. Compared to professional cameras, it's only missing SLR and changeable lenses -- but then again it's the size of a 35mm point'n shoot. And the 3x zoom lens has macro and telephoto adapters available.
Linux compatilibity comes via USB (gphoto2), though I prefer a PC Card adapter to read the CF card directly. The camera can also use Microdrives of (currently) 1 GB.
The new G2 version has just come out, but the differences are not very stunning (4Mpix instead of 3.3).
I don't know about hackability (maybe via the binary-only firmware updates), but I'm more interested in 'photo geek' features which let you choose every possible setting when taking photos.
Unfortunately, one interesting feature requires the use of a windoze: creating panorama pictures from multiple shots. This is now the only reason I'm left with a windoze partition :-/
If the changeover in Germay takes place, there will probably be a substantial number of jobs created for opensource hackers. In that case, not all the M$ license money is saved, but at least the money goes for those who need it.
"The things you own end up owning you." - Tyler Durden
Agreed! But it was only some 10 years later that Linus and the OSS crew brought operating systems to the masses. ;-)
<grammar nazism>
It's called HURD which stands for:
Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
where HIRD means
Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth.
<grammar nazism>
Oh, wait.. why am I recalling the joke about a solar powered flashlight?
The basic requirement of superconductance is that electrons go bosonic, whereby a huge number of them can reach the same quantum state. So in a way there is B-E condensation in superconductors, but only that of electron pairs, not entire atoms as in the 1995 experiment.
BEC of atoms is not terribly exciting news for superconductance, unless you want super-transfer of atoms instead of electrons.
On the other hand, I'm more interested in reducing power consumption. My laptop hogs at most 30W, modern desktops may use ten times that. I'm sick of hearing of California's power outages and the like, when the technology for power saving is already there.
Surely you mean picophones!
The City of Turku, the oldest and one of the largest cities in Finland, is planning on a switch to Linux + OpenOffice in order to save the XP license money. Links here and here.
Practice what you preach :-)