But, a lot of people consider Mac OS X to be worth a significant premium over Windows XP.
Actually, I'd buy a 339 quid Mac to run Linux on just to get rid of the big, noisy heat machine that sits on my desk at the moment. I doubt that the Dell would do anything for me in that department. As to the speed, well the G4 is so much better than the P4 it's not even funny; the P4 stinks even compared to Intel's other "weren't the 70's fun" chips.
OS X, on the other hand is of no interest to me at all. I've used it and I've worked with other people that use it and I can't see the point of it. Some of the apps for it are nice, though. Just not enough to make me leave behind the utility of Linux for a world of locked down gaudy nonsense and five year old versions of *nix utilities.
If the government had granted the ability to have compulsory fees for everyone, even those who don't use the broadband provided, in order to pay for the others... would you be OK with this?
Er, that's the basic concept of taxation. Otherwise why wouldn't everyone just pay at the point? What use is a government that doesn't do that?
Do you hold government in that much higher of an esteem than you hold corporations?
They're the same: a small number of people wielding power in order to increase their own personal wealth. If by some accident some good comes out of the actions of either of these scumbag concepts then I'm glad to see it.
this sounds great, but havent we been waiting a while now for exeem (which they're taking their time to develope to make sure it really works)?
No, they were taking the time to get advertising. Exeem is dead in the water, see the previous discussion. I can't imagine anyone wanting to use this pile of steaming dog crap now that the details are out.
Microsoft has succeeded in producing a massive lock-in with their products,
Many people, wrongly, think that a "big name", whether in computers or cars or whatever, means big support and that small companies can not have the resources to make "fully functioned" products. The trick here is that many of the extra functions were added to push the upgrade sales, not for any utility,
Many people are stupid,
Large companies get quiet "bonuses" for standardising on third-rate crap from Microsoft (and Intel, for that matter - I was offered free hardware if I would make our company website slower, to encourage upgrading of machines),
Many many people have too little time to bother finding out about the alternatives.
The best way to avoid wars is to make it clear to all the Saddams and Hitlers that tyranny isn't an accepted form of government, anywhere. Such rulers should be removed from power, using the necessary force.
Perhaps, then, America shouldn't hire people like Saddam to assassinate leaders, and put them in place once the old leader is dead. Perhaps, then, Donald Rumsfeld shouldn't sell people like Saddam biological weapons of mass destruction and perhaps, then, people like George Bush shouldn't send "experts" in to help with the "calibration" of those weapons. Perhaps, in fact, tracing the history of Iraq back to 1919 is simply a handy way of ignoring the actual and immediate fact that these soldiers are dying for a government which caused the problem in Iraq and who decided to attack it on the feeble pretext of the War on Terror in order to, as Wolfowitz's said, secure America's economic future (ie, oil).
A little less pointing the finger at long dead people and their wars and a little more pointing it at the people in power today who are sacrificing their people for money today might help fix this mess.
Uselib() takes a string which is the name of your library. Fair enough. But it just returns a flag. How do you know where the library was loaded so you can actually call anything in it? This has bothered me before while I was hacking in assembly and this story's just reminded me. How do you use it?
I have mod points today but there isn't an entry for "totally nuts"! There's not a single item on your list that I believe; you even managed to undermine alien life with the odd proviso that it will be "acorporeal".
I try every new TeX/LaTeX front end that comes out for the Mac.
I use TeX (not LaTeX) for all my word processing and invoices, fax sheets, and label making. The front end I use is Emacs. Most people really don't need many templates to cover what they actually do on a daily basis. Why not just learn TeX? The TeXbook is easy to get and "Plain TeX Primer" can be picked up quite easily.
Putting together a few macros which cover making things like TOCs and cross references are pretty easy if you use eplain, which comes with most TeXs these days and is well documented.
Since TeX enables you to separate the content from the formatting so easily, a GUI actually gets in the way. I'm working on a novel at the moment and I can print it out in double-spaced typescript, two column compact format for reading, or paperback format with crop marks all by changing one line of the source. I can't imagine a front end giving me the power to do that easily.
As to outlining, I don't know. I generally make do with a central file which includes the sections by name and let that do as my outlining, although I know that's probably not up to the standard you're looking for. Still, I think the outlining could be left to your editor rather than the TeXing system itself. Likewise, Emacs lets me have as many TeX documents open as I want.
He's not been knighted, just OBE'd. He's not the first developer so honoured (Jez Sans) and the Queen doesn't choose the New Year's Honours, the Prime Minister and his staff do; the Queen has more input on her birthday list.
Other than that, a fine article. I think there's a knighthood in it for the/. crew (honoury only, I'm afraid, since they're for'n)
isn't winelib's purpose ensuring support for this sort of thing?
Yes, butthe point is that winelib is a hard project and will always be chasing a moving target. There's no "automatic" way of just translating code that relies on external libraries, each one is a case onto itself.
how hard would it be to make a compiler that takes win32 code and outputs it into something linux can use...
Very hard. Since most games rely heavily on libraries of code the compiler would have to be able to recognise the functions and either translate Windows DLL calls to Linux.so calls or synthesise new code for routines which are not supported on Linux.
This is in the realm of possible but not the realm of even moderately difficult. Otherwise, as you say, it would already have been done.
can assign blame for the natural disaster to God (assuming that he presets non-thinking things) but not for the human disaster, assuming we have free will.
But surely any such god's power and ability to protect the victims, who did not choose to die or suffer the loss of their family and are not responsible for the actions of the terrorists, carries a responsibility to use that power? Why should innocents be bunched in with terrorists when dealing with the consequences of free will under a deity? There is such a thing as culpability for inaction; would such power carry not a "right to overrule our actions", but in fact a duty?
Just because we have a police force doesn't mean we're living under 'determinism with the ability for [the police] "not to care"'. If police stand by and watch a crime take place that they could prevent, are they not partly culpable? Hell, anyone - police or not? Yet gods seem to get away with that sort of amoral behaviour all the time.
I'm pointing out that the cause does matter when considering the importance of an event.
I agree; I was idly pointing out the implications of two common beliefs: 1: that there is no such thing as free will, which implies that human actions are no different from "natural" actions or disasters, and 2: that there is a god, in which case there again is no difference becase in both the human and natural cases god is equally culpable for letting it happen.
Personally I believe in free will and not in gods, so it really was idle speculation and "Philosophy 101". Given what I belive, I agree totally with your post but it did occur to me that ours is simply one view point and there are others. I'm not quite sure why that wound you up so much but I wasn't trolling.
that's like asking if its worse when a landslide kills 25 hikers or when a crazy person kills 2 people at a gas station. The events have to be considered in different lights
Not if you believe in god(s): then both are a question of why they were allowed to happen.
and you can't compare massive devastation from natural disasters to massive devastation from acts of terrorism.
but you *must* go along with what they say, or suffer the consequences.
Yes, but that's the problem, isn't it? If little people (ie anyone not in the top 0.1% of the rich-list) object they are crushed, and even killed on a regular basis. What the hell can commoners do against the aristocracy that is behind globalisation? Answer: fuck all.
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Actually, I'd buy a 339 quid Mac to run Linux on just to get rid of the big, noisy heat machine that sits on my desk at the moment. I doubt that the Dell would do anything for me in that department. As to the speed, well the G4 is so much better than the P4 it's not even funny; the P4 stinks even compared to Intel's other "weren't the 70's fun" chips.
OS X, on the other hand is of no interest to me at all. I've used it and I've worked with other people that use it and I can't see the point of it. Some of the apps for it are nice, though. Just not enough to make me leave behind the utility of Linux for a world of locked down gaudy nonsense and five year old versions of *nix utilities.
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Right, that's it. Stop that. It's all very silly indeed.
Where did you hear that? The author(s) certainly claim otherwise.
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Also, search for "optipng", it really helps.
Er, that's the basic concept of taxation. Otherwise why wouldn't everyone just pay at the point? What use is a government that doesn't do that?
Do you hold government in that much higher of an esteem than you hold corporations?
They're the same: a small number of people wielding power in order to increase their own personal wealth. If by some accident some good comes out of the actions of either of these scumbag concepts then I'm glad to see it.
TWW
No, they were taking the time to get advertising. Exeem is dead in the water, see the previous discussion. I can't imagine anyone wanting to use this pile of steaming dog crap now that the details are out.
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It was during the .com boom and the offer came via our Venture Capitalists, I think Intel met them at some VC convention thing.
See your VC for details...
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That's part of the answer, anyway.
Perhaps, then, America shouldn't hire people like Saddam to assassinate leaders, and put them in place once the old leader is dead. Perhaps, then, Donald Rumsfeld shouldn't sell people like Saddam biological weapons of mass destruction and perhaps, then, people like George Bush shouldn't send "experts" in to help with the "calibration" of those weapons. Perhaps, in fact, tracing the history of Iraq back to 1919 is simply a handy way of ignoring the actual and immediate fact that these soldiers are dying for a government which caused the problem in Iraq and who decided to attack it on the feeble pretext of the War on Terror in order to, as Wolfowitz's said, secure America's economic future (ie, oil).
A little less pointing the finger at long dead people and their wars and a little more pointing it at the people in power today who are sacrificing their people for money today might help fix this mess.
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Because "beta" is for life, not just early releases.
You mean it hasn't?!
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Well, if it makes you happy, I guess.
TWW
I use TeX (not LaTeX) for all my word processing and invoices, fax sheets, and label making. The front end I use is Emacs. Most people really don't need many templates to cover what they actually do on a daily basis. Why not just learn TeX? The TeXbook is easy to get and "Plain TeX Primer" can be picked up quite easily.
Putting together a few macros which cover making things like TOCs and cross references are pretty easy if you use eplain, which comes with most TeXs these days and is well documented.
Since TeX enables you to separate the content from the formatting so easily, a GUI actually gets in the way. I'm working on a novel at the moment and I can print it out in double-spaced typescript, two column compact format for reading, or paperback format with crop marks all by changing one line of the source. I can't imagine a front end giving me the power to do that easily.
As to outlining, I don't know. I generally make do with a central file which includes the sections by name and let that do as my outlining, although I know that's probably not up to the standard you're looking for. Still, I think the outlining could be left to your editor rather than the TeXing system itself. Likewise, Emacs lets me have as many TeX documents open as I want.
TWW
Other than that, a fine article. I think there's a knighthood in it for the /. crew (honoury only, I'm afraid, since they're for'n)
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That might have been funny except for the fact that he is in fact English. Used to live near me, actually.
Also, he hasn't been knighted, but that's an error in the article.
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Man, he's Dracula! What more do you want?
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Yes, butthe point is that winelib is a hard project and will always be chasing a moving target. There's no "automatic" way of just translating code that relies on external libraries, each one is a case onto itself.
TWW
Very hard. Since most games rely heavily on libraries of code the compiler would have to be able to recognise the functions and either translate Windows DLL calls to Linux .so calls or synthesise new code for routines which are not supported on Linux.
This is in the realm of possible but not the realm of even moderately difficult. Otherwise, as you say, it would already have been done.
TWW
But surely any such god's power and ability to protect the victims, who did not choose to die or suffer the loss of their family and are not responsible for the actions of the terrorists, carries a responsibility to use that power? Why should innocents be bunched in with terrorists when dealing with the consequences of free will under a deity? There is such a thing as culpability for inaction; would such power carry not a "right to overrule our actions", but in fact a duty?
Just because we have a police force doesn't mean we're living under 'determinism with the ability for [the police] "not to care"'. If police stand by and watch a crime take place that they could prevent, are they not partly culpable? Hell, anyone - police or not? Yet gods seem to get away with that sort of amoral behaviour all the time.
Human nature, eh?
TWW
I agree; I was idly pointing out the implications of two common beliefs: 1: that there is no such thing as free will, which implies that human actions are no different from "natural" actions or disasters, and 2: that there is a god, in which case there again is no difference becase in both the human and natural cases god is equally culpable for letting it happen.
Personally I believe in free will and not in gods, so it really was idle speculation and "Philosophy 101". Given what I belive, I agree totally with your post but it did occur to me that ours is simply one view point and there are others. I'm not quite sure why that wound you up so much but I wasn't trolling.
TWW
Only if you believe in free will.
that's like asking if its worse when a landslide kills 25 hikers or when a crazy person kills 2 people at a gas station. The events have to be considered in different lights
Not if you believe in god(s): then both are a question of why they were allowed to happen.
and you can't compare massive devastation from natural disasters to massive devastation from acts of terrorism.
Depends on what you believe in.
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I pick Pixar as a company that at least seems to want to have both and are prepared to put the time and effort into doing it.
Sure, crap sells, but sometimes so does quality.
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Yes, but that's the problem, isn't it? If little people (ie anyone not in the top 0.1% of the rich-list) object they are crushed, and even killed on a regular basis. What the hell can commoners do against the aristocracy that is behind globalisation? Answer: fuck all.
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