Do you know how many times the conservative estimate is wrong? There was probably a conservative report of a potential terrorist attack each of the 365 days last year. Would you like the FAA to ground all airplanes every single day?
Clearly, conservative is good when you're talking about people's lives. Also clearly, it is possible to be too conservative.
My favorite way to play AOE with my friends is with High resources, but disallowing (by agreement) any economy--that means no mining, no chopping, no farming, no relics. So you start out with enough for one small army and a tiny city, and you have to fight with that.
It makes your spending very careful! Instead of "build the biggest things you can" you get a lot of milage out of cheap units. And you're damn careful to let units live so you can regenerate them back in the TC/Castle.
I think all of these Craft games focus too much on peons and resources.
While id isn't planning on giving away the entire plot of the game anytime soon, here's what we know so far: DOOM III is basically a "retelling" of the original DOOM, with many of the same characters and themes, and even some returning weapons.
It's one thing to get something wrong because you didn't read the story closely enough, but it's another to get it wrong while bitching someone out about not reading it closely themselves.
I imagine that I'm not the only one tired of Q3-style shoot-em-ups. It's great to see a return to atmosphere and cinematic feeling in a game. I hope, though, that the game doesn't rely on cut scenes, which for me are absolutely worthless. I haven't watched a single moment of the cinematics CD with Diablo 2, and I can't stand games like Final Fantasy which aren't much more than crappy RPGs built around good CG cut scenes.
The most fun single player game I ever played was the Alien mod for Doom. I remember inching my way through the tunnels, and then jumping in my seat when an alien burst out of the wall at me. The designer of that mod had an excellent sense of mood and atmosphere. The entire first level didn't have a single monster on it. But the second...
The Win32 API is not the kernel API, at least not for the NT derivatives. The Win32 API was written for something akin to "cross-kernel" portability (Win95/98 to NT to CE). It's a good idea and wasn't originally meant to obfuscate or hide the underlying APIs, but to provide a standard API across kernels.
It's very similar to the glibc API, which hides the underlying Linux system calls.
I believe what you are referring to is state corporate taxes, which Microsoft is apparently exempt from. I'm rather certain that there are federal taxes which are being paid, plus taxes in other states.
If only they were using Open Source Software in the aviation industry...
Because of course, upgrading Open Source software never causes problems. In fact, if they were using Linux, it would be so efficient the passengers would be arriving before they left.
In my experience, I have never, ever seen the "farm it out to cheap foreign programmers" dream work. When the code comes back it's worthless. Programmers that far from the project, with no emotional, financial, or professional involvement, have no reason to write quality code. They have every reason to churn out code which barely conforms to the specs. And if the specs are faulty at all, you're screwed.
To make that sort of operation work, you'll have to write such detailed specifications that you'll practically be coding it yourself. You're much better off with a couple of coders who will look at what you're trying to do, and make it work that way.
Well, you're not going to be able to run Mac binaries, just because of Carbon support--if that's what you think. If nothing else, Macs are big endian while PCs are little (or is it the other way around?).
Even source compatibility will be tough, given the huge differences between the design of MacOS and Linux.
Tell me, how do I replace the Explorer shell on an NT kernel box?
Well, isn't that Microsoft's point? The GUI shell (which includes IE) is tied to the OS. They are the same thing as far as the user is concerned. If you told the typical Windows user "you can run Windows, but with this other shell which makes it look and act nothing like Windows" they would stare at you blankly. "That's not Windows."
What is an OS? You guys are limiting the definition to the kernel. Explorer is not tied inextricably to the NT kernel. Explorer IS tied inextricably to Windows.
Great, Linux is better because I can replace the GUI shell. Linux is also better because I can replace the memory manager (via recompiling). Can Windows do that? No. Is it fair for the DOJ to force Microsoft to allow users to replace the MM?
Konqi serves the same purpose in KDE/Linux as Internet/Windows Explorer (same thing these days) serves in Windows. It does file management, web browsing, help, and html email rendering. Both do all of this through a component architecture.
What would KDE be without Konq? Same thing as Windows. Not really usable the way it was intended.
The article ribs the witness for calling KDE an operating system. Well, no, KDE is a user interface / window manager / shell sitting on top of the Linux (or other) kernel. Same as Explorer, which is a user interface / window manager / shell on top of the Windows NT kernel (in NT/2000/XP anyway). Perhaps he should have said KDE/Linux, but do we really want to go there?
The "Standard Object Oriented Library" for C++. You'll find it here. (Warning, blatant goatse.cx link)
What the hell are these specification designers thinking? Just throw everything in there? We make a language (an extension, anyway) with somewhat decently implemented classes and objects. Years later we remember we haven't written a library for it yet. At the same time some brightlight wants to add templates to the already horribly complex language, and so we create our standard library using this new feature and nothing else. The STL isn't just based on templates for rational things like containers, it uses templates for everything imaginable. Who needs a template parameter for an allocator function? Who needs strings to be such a generalized class that I can use them to handle an array of kitchen sinks, and provide automatic Dran-O too? The "joy" of templates drove every other thought out of their heads when they came up with this crap.
Programmers code in different ways. Not everyone wants to use templates; they're by far the most debated "feature" of C++. Why the hell did Stroustroup et al decide to ram them down our throat? When I program in C++, I use standard C libraries or roll my own object-oriented ones.
Just wait till next year, when they add threading support based on functional programming and graphics code which uses an AI core to figure out what you want to draw before you know it yourself.
This is really funny. Let's avoid "long distance" charges by using the exact same phone lines but calling the information "data" rather than "voice" and therefore bringing the charges under a "data" pricing scheme which is currently fixed-cost.
Something has to change here. This is providing no service whatsoever except a means of sidestepping the billing methods of the telcos. I guarantee that one of two things will happen: phone charges will become fixed-rate, or data charges will increase for "long distance" connections.
Using Microsoft's COM interfaces in VBScript is extremely easy. While I wouldn't recommend it for much else, VBScript is certainly no worse than Unix shell scripting.
Of course, around here, where everyone knows Unix and shell scripting, this seems looney. But the examples posted under this article about how "shell scripts make Apache easy to maintain" are easily duplicated with VBScript. The big difference isn't that Windows isn't scriptable, it's that most Windows admins don't bother to learn scripting.
Do you think REALLY big companies who rely on Windows hire admins who point-and-click their way through everything?
I'm a KDE user and a GVIM fan, so this is absolutely great. I use GVIM under Windows as well, which helps me keep some unity and sanity to my text editing. I particularly love the search and replace power of Vi (basically full sed scripts, inline) and often spawn it from VC++ to do complex searches-and-replaces. I've read that you can replace the VC++ editor with GVIM using OLE, which I might try too.
I do like Konquerer's file manager mode (Mozilla is much better IMO for the web), particularly the CLI attached to the bottom of the window. In fact, I often use it to spawn GVIM to edit a file... Being able to bring up GVIM inline to do text editing would be a dream.
I believe it was John Updike who said there are only two stories:
1. The Journey 2. A Stranger Comes to Town
This one observation pretty much sums up Campbell. Obviously, his Hero fits into the Journey story. He doesn't seem to touch on the Stranger theme much.
Don't take this too literally: my point is, that after careful analysis, everything always falls into a dichotomy. It's like saying "everything is either concave or convex" and then thinking you said something important. It's much MORE important to realize the self-evident nature of your observation.
Heh...interesting article you linked to, but there were some rather inane comparisons. Statements like "both VMS and WinNT implement virtual memory and demand-paging" are as true for Linux (or any other modern OS) as they are for NT or VMS.
Perhaps you meant consumer desktop OS? Even then, neither AtheOS nor QNX is Unix based. Neither is GNU/Hurd nor GNU/Linux, if you want to be pedantic about the meaning of UNIX.
Active Directory *is* LDAP, and they use standard Kerberos for authentication. You can use an OpenLDAP client to query every bit of information a Windows 2000 domain controller holds, and use MIT Kerberos to authenticate against it.
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Do you know how many times the conservative estimate is wrong? There was probably a conservative report of a potential terrorist attack each of the 365 days last year. Would you like the FAA to ground all airplanes every single day?
Clearly, conservative is good when you're talking about people's lives. Also clearly, it is possible to be too conservative.
My favorite way to play AOE with my friends is with High resources, but disallowing (by agreement) any economy--that means no mining, no chopping, no farming, no relics. So you start out with enough for one small army and a tiny city, and you have to fight with that.
It makes your spending very careful! Instead of "build the biggest things you can" you get a lot of milage out of cheap units. And you're damn careful to let units live so you can regenerate them back in the TC/Castle.
I think all of these Craft games focus too much on peons and resources.
While id isn't planning on giving away the entire plot of the game anytime soon, here's what we know so far: DOOM III is basically a "retelling" of the original DOOM, with many of the same characters and themes, and even some returning weapons.
It's one thing to get something wrong because you didn't read the story closely enough, but it's another to get it wrong while bitching someone out about not reading it closely themselves.
I imagine that I'm not the only one tired of Q3-style shoot-em-ups. It's great to see a return to atmosphere and cinematic feeling in a game. I hope, though, that the game doesn't rely on cut scenes, which for me are absolutely worthless. I haven't watched a single moment of the cinematics CD with Diablo 2, and I can't stand games like Final Fantasy which aren't much more than crappy RPGs built around good CG cut scenes.
The most fun single player game I ever played was the Alien mod for Doom. I remember inching my way through the tunnels, and then jumping in my seat when an alien burst out of the wall at me. The designer of that mod had an excellent sense of mood and atmosphere. The entire first level didn't have a single monster on it. But the second...
The Win32 API is not the kernel API, at least not for the NT derivatives. The Win32 API was written for something akin to "cross-kernel" portability (Win95/98 to NT to CE). It's a good idea and wasn't originally meant to obfuscate or hide the underlying APIs, but to provide a standard API across kernels.
It's very similar to the glibc API, which hides the underlying Linux system calls.
I believe what you are referring to is state corporate taxes, which Microsoft is apparently exempt from. I'm rather certain that there are federal taxes which are being paid, plus taxes in other states.
If only they were using Open Source Software in the aviation industry...
Because of course, upgrading Open Source software never causes problems. In fact, if they were using Linux, it would be so efficient the passengers would be arriving before they left.
In my experience, I have never, ever seen the "farm it out to cheap foreign programmers" dream work. When the code comes back it's worthless. Programmers that far from the project, with no emotional, financial, or professional involvement, have no reason to write quality code. They have every reason to churn out code which barely conforms to the specs. And if the specs are faulty at all, you're screwed.
To make that sort of operation work, you'll have to write such detailed specifications that you'll practically be coding it yourself. You're much better off with a couple of coders who will look at what you're trying to do, and make it work that way.
Well, you're not going to be able to run Mac binaries, just because of Carbon support--if that's what you think. If nothing else, Macs are big endian while PCs are little (or is it the other way around?).
Even source compatibility will be tough, given the huge differences between the design of MacOS and Linux.
Is is possible (and easy) to use up2date to upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3, at least for certain packages like KDE?
I've been meaning to upgrade to KDE3, even have the RPMs, but up2date works so much better.
Tell me, how do I replace the Explorer shell on an NT kernel box?
Well, isn't that Microsoft's point? The GUI shell (which includes IE) is tied to the OS. They are the same thing as far as the user is concerned. If you told the typical Windows user "you can run Windows, but with this other shell which makes it look and act nothing like Windows" they would stare at you blankly. "That's not Windows."
What is an OS? You guys are limiting the definition to the kernel. Explorer is not tied inextricably to the NT kernel. Explorer IS tied inextricably to Windows.
Great, Linux is better because I can replace the GUI shell. Linux is also better because I can replace the memory manager (via recompiling). Can Windows do that? No. Is it fair for the DOJ to force Microsoft to allow users to replace the MM?
Well, I guess that's the question, isn't it?
Konqi serves the same purpose in KDE/Linux as Internet/Windows Explorer (same thing these days) serves in Windows. It does file management, web browsing, help, and html email rendering. Both do all of this through a component architecture.
What would KDE be without Konq? Same thing as Windows. Not really usable the way it was intended.
The article ribs the witness for calling KDE an operating system. Well, no, KDE is a user interface / window manager / shell sitting on top of the Linux (or other) kernel. Same as Explorer, which is a user interface / window manager / shell on top of the Windows NT kernel (in NT/2000/XP anyway). Perhaps he should have said KDE/Linux, but do we really want to go there?
It's "Thundercats are on the move, Thundercats are loose."
Transformers are "more than meets the eye."
The "Standard Object Oriented Library" for C++. You'll find it here. (Warning, blatant goatse.cx link)
What the hell are these specification designers thinking? Just throw everything in there? We make a language (an extension, anyway) with somewhat decently implemented classes and objects. Years later we remember we haven't written a library for it yet. At the same time some brightlight wants to add templates to the already horribly complex language, and so we create our standard library using this new feature and nothing else. The STL isn't just based on templates for rational things like containers, it uses templates for everything imaginable. Who needs a template parameter for an allocator function? Who needs strings to be such a generalized class that I can use them to handle an array of kitchen sinks, and provide automatic Dran-O too? The "joy" of templates drove every other thought out of their heads when they came up with this crap.
Programmers code in different ways. Not everyone wants to use templates; they're by far the most debated "feature" of C++. Why the hell did Stroustroup et al decide to ram them down our throat? When I program in C++, I use standard C libraries or roll my own object-oriented ones.
Just wait till next year, when they add threading support based on functional programming and graphics code which uses an AI core to figure out what you want to draw before you know it yourself.
If you're joking, this is really funny. If you're serious...
You want to run a modem over voice over IP over broadband over telephone lines?
This is really funny. Let's avoid "long distance" charges by using the exact same phone lines but calling the information "data" rather than "voice" and therefore bringing the charges under a "data" pricing scheme which is currently fixed-cost.
Something has to change here. This is providing no service whatsoever except a means of sidestepping the billing methods of the telcos. I guarantee that one of two things will happen: phone charges will become fixed-rate, or data charges will increase for "long distance" connections.
TANSTAAFL.
Using Microsoft's COM interfaces in VBScript is extremely easy. While I wouldn't recommend it for much else, VBScript is certainly no worse than Unix shell scripting.
Of course, around here, where everyone knows Unix and shell scripting, this seems looney. But the examples posted under this article about how "shell scripts make Apache easy to maintain" are easily duplicated with VBScript. The big difference isn't that Windows isn't scriptable, it's that most Windows admins don't bother to learn scripting.
Do you think REALLY big companies who rely on Windows hire admins who point-and-click their way through everything?
FUD goes both ways.
I'm a KDE user and a GVIM fan, so this is absolutely great. I use GVIM under Windows as well, which helps me keep some unity and sanity to my text editing. I particularly love the search and replace power of Vi (basically full sed scripts, inline) and often spawn it from VC++ to do complex searches-and-replaces. I've read that you can replace the VC++ editor with GVIM using OLE, which I might try too.
I do like Konquerer's file manager mode (Mozilla is much better IMO for the web), particularly the CLI attached to the bottom of the window. In fact, I often use it to spawn GVIM to edit a file... Being able to bring up GVIM inline to do text editing would be a dream.
American Beauty!
Lord of the Rings!
Total Recall!
Unforgiven!
I believe it was John Updike who said there are only two stories:
1. The Journey
2. A Stranger Comes to Town
This one observation pretty much sums up Campbell. Obviously, his Hero fits into the Journey story. He doesn't seem to touch on the Stranger theme much.
Don't take this too literally: my point is, that after careful analysis, everything always falls into a dichotomy. It's like saying "everything is either concave or convex" and then thinking you said something important. It's much MORE important to realize the self-evident nature of your observation.
Heh...interesting article you linked to, but there were some rather inane comparisons. Statements like "both VMS and WinNT implement virtual memory and demand-paging" are as true for Linux (or any other modern OS) as they are for NT or VMS.
VMS
OS/390
PalmOS
Perhaps you meant consumer desktop OS? Even then, neither AtheOS nor QNX is Unix based. Neither is GNU/Hurd nor GNU/Linux, if you want to be pedantic about the meaning of UNIX.
Active Directory *is* LDAP, and they use standard Kerberos for authentication. You can use an OpenLDAP client to query every bit of information a Windows 2000 domain controller holds, and use MIT Kerberos to authenticate against it.
Where is that standard-incompliant?
Well, better yet, switch to GNU, because we all know what that's not.
"Unix may be unflexible and proprietary--but Gnu's Not Unix."
I think those words were Dylan Thomas.