I believe.org is supposed to be reserved for non-profits organizations.
FALSE. FALSE. FALSE.
This has NEVER been true. Why do people insist on spreading this lie around?
Please read the RFC before you continue to propagate this utter nonsense. In fact, I'll even quote it for you:
ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for
organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-
government organizations may fit here.
Please point out the reference to non-profits in that descriptions..ORG is for any organization. Non-profit status has nothing to do with it. And.NET? Not for ISPs either! Who knew???
Read the RFC, it will enlighten you, and you can cease with your pointless lies and slander of.ORG owners.
Until a mouse of some form becomes standard on Consoles, this will always remain the case, and as such the console players get frustrated and may cancel accounts or some other annoyance to the companies...
The Dreamcast had a standard keyboard and mouse, and Quake 3 supported it fully, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
Ok, maybe one other thought. TCL is a cool language - [...] and it has never been as thread-friendly as other languages.
While I'm not involved in the Scripting Wars, I think it's worth pointing out that TCL's stance on threading is motivated by the fact that its creator thinks that threads are a bad idea.
Well, it was 1998, when the economy was booming, and IT budgest were huge. Pretty common, actually. Not to say he's not a great programmer (c'mon, Gaim rules. Admit it).
There are already several excellent open source machine learning toolkits available. The one I have the most experience with is Weka, a Java-based system. In addition to providing an API, it has both command line and GUI tools.
With that and a decent ML book, I imagine most programmers could get up to speed rather quickly.
Here in New York the Metrocard system offers some opportunity for tracking users because the card have a unique ID and could be linked to credit card or debit card information (and hence to you) if you buy the card at a machine with card.
With the Oystercard, you swipe it while entering and exiting. With NYC's MetroCards, you only swipe while entering (there being a flat fare of $2 for all subway rides, no matter where you go). Since they could only know where someone got on the subway, it would be hard to track them (unless of course you take the subway back, but even then you might get off at one place, and head back from another).
That said, you can pay with cash. Or skip out on MetroCards entirely and use those Single Pass cards, but you can save a lot with a MetroCard. And that savings is worth knowing that some bored NYCT worker could make the exciting discovery that I take the subway nearest my house to my school and back everyday.
Its not "one of the original pure OO languages", its THE original OO language. OO as a concept was demonstrated by making smalltalk.
The creators of Simula 67 would disagree. Simula was the first object-oriented language.
Not that it really matters who came first. Smalltalk is still around, while Simula is simply a relic [1].
For another interesting flamewar/discussion, ask a Common Lisp bigot and an Ada fanatic which language was the first standardized language - they will fight it out to the death. (For the record CL was an ANSI standard before Ada95 was an ISO one).
any idea how to fix those? Seems they're all comeing up crappy...I had an urge to play PSO the other day...only to find the discs will spin up, but the laser does not emit any lgiht!
Check the Dreamcast Repair forum or buy a new GD-ROM drive, or just a new DC (which were $29.99 at EB last I saw)
Exult is fantastic. I've been using 1.0 (under Linux) to run BG and SI (with their respective expansion packs) with no problem.
Exult has a ton of extra features over the original U7 engine, including:
SI-style "paper doll" support in BG
The ability to use the "T" button (pause and click on someone to talk) in BG
Configurable display size. This is great because you can configure Exult to show more of the game world on screen. The original U7 only did 320x200, but if you have a bigger screen, why not take advantage of it?
Unlimited save and restore slots. Each save also has a party list and screenshot associated with it
Sound support, including speech. I don't think I could ever get this to work with U7 under DOS
*Much* more stable. U7 was fairly buggy - random lockups were distressingly common. Exult hasn't crashed on me once.
Normal play speed. Exult doesn't require any sort of slow down utililty like moslo
The need for food seems to have disappeared. I beat BG recently and only had to feed my party once. I guess the Exult developers thought that the food system was a bad idea and just didn't implement it fully. In my book, not having to deal with Shamino whining "I must have food" every 2 minutes is a plus.
Advanced cheating system:)
So get Exult. It's better than the original, and runs under unix, too.
It was Ada that practically invented generics back in 95
Ada has had generics a lot longer than since 1995. They were in Ada83, the first standardized version of the language. Ada didn't get "full" object-orientation until Ada95, perhaps that is what you confused it with. It is interesting to note that Ada started with generics and added objects later, while C++ started with objects and added generics later.
and it's still one of only a few compilable languages (excepting gcj == java) that have a gc.
There is nothing special about a "compilable language" (whatever that means) using GC. Lisp has been doing it for decades (and yes, most Lisp systems are native code compilers, such as CMUCL, Allegro, CormanLisp, SBCL, etc). Oberon-2 compilers use GC, including the open source OOC and Oberon System3 from ETH. Ada was designed such that GC could be implemented, but it rarely is. Many FP languages use GC, such as Haskell. Haskell compilers, such as GHC, NHC, and HBC all use GC.
If you haven't gotten the point yet, there is nothing special about implementing languages using garbage collection, and furthermore, there was nothing innovative when Meyer decided to use it for Eiffel.
Funny, I live near there, and I know just the place. The guy has a TV set and a bunch of Mega Joy 2 systems out. I tried it out once, it worked pretty well. I've seen him selling both the version with the light gun, and also the version without, so if you want to buy, check to see if it comes with a light gun (and dont forget to test it first!).
Incidentally, Multimedia 1 (on St. Marks btwn 2nd and 3rd) has a bunch of all-in-one systems, both legit and pirate (including the one this story is about). As usual, their prices are on the expensive side, but if you want to buy from a reputable place, it might be your only option. They don't list these on the web site for some reason -- if you don't live in NYC, try giving them a call or something.
Some posts further down recommend interpreted languages like Python and LISP (jeez!) for such applications. They must be joking.
Lisp is not an "interpreted language" (if there even is such a thing as a *language* which needs to be interpreted). In fact, most open-sourceLisp systems, as well as allcommericalLisps are compiled into native code.
I find it hard to believe that many people seem to think that after 40+ years of existence, Lisp is still interpreted, as if Lisp users, developers, and researchers were incapable of doing any better.
hell probably even serve web pages all without leaving the comfortable enclave of EMACS.
There's no "probably" about it. Phase does all that and more.
And I don't see how a vi user can deride "obscure commands and syntax?" But then, I never understood people who stuck to modal editors. Sure vi (not vim) is nice for configuring a newly-installed OpenBSD box, but it only takes a single pkg_add to install the latest XEmacs, and who needs vi after that? (except for recovery, of course!)
There's no such thing - there are many Basic compilers which produce native code - Moonrock, ASIC, and I believe the newer versions of Visual Basic (?)
GEOS got licensed (sold?) to New Deal, who are promoting it as a software suite, New Deal Office, for old computers. Their primary customers seem to be schools.
You can download an evaluation version for free. They used to have (non-expiring) beta versions up for testing, but they no longer do. They also seem to have dumped Motif for something called "NewUI". I remember running NDO with OpenDOS, because the GEOS kernel could supposedly utilize OpenDOS's multitasking ability.
Bear in mind, that GEOS (now "NewDOS") is no longer promoted as a seperate product, rather as a means to an end (the office suite/web browser).
Slashdot Mirror
So does Columbia.
http://www.wikicu.com/Swim_tes...
like in FO3, so you can just 'addachievement N' your way to internet victory.
FALSE. FALSE. FALSE.
This has NEVER been true. Why do people insist on spreading this lie around?
Please read the RFC before you continue to propagate this utter nonsense. In fact, I'll even quote it for you:
Please point out the reference to non-profits in that descriptions.
Read the RFC, it will enlighten you, and you can cease with your pointless lies and slander of
Until a mouse of some form becomes standard on Consoles, this will always remain the case, and as such the console players get frustrated and may cancel accounts or some other annoyance to the companies...
The Dreamcast had a standard keyboard and mouse, and Quake 3 supported it fully, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
But every system I've ever had to use, and not had source code for, I've run into the limits of.
Solaris is open source.
I live in lower Delaware, 4-5 hours away from Wilmington.
You're kidding. There's no place in Delaware that is 4 hours away from any other place in Delaware.
Ok, maybe one other thought. TCL is a cool language - [...] and it has never been as thread-friendly as other languages.
While I'm not involved in the Scripting Wars, I think it's worth pointing out that TCL's stance on threading is motivated by the fact that its creator thinks that threads are a bad idea.
Well, it was 1998, when the economy was booming, and IT budgest were huge. Pretty common, actually. Not to say he's not a great programmer (c'mon, Gaim rules. Admit it).
There are already several excellent open source machine learning toolkits available. The one I have the most experience with is Weka, a Java-based system. In addition to providing an API, it has both command line and GUI tools.
With that and a decent ML book, I imagine most programmers could get up to speed rather quickly.
Now UNIX refers to a set of unwritten API and user interface conventions.
What is "unwritten" about POSIX? And UNIX does have UI conventions: Motif. It's just that that convention sucks.
Here in New York the Metrocard system offers some opportunity for tracking users
because the card have a unique ID and could be linked to credit card or debit card
information (and hence to you) if you buy the card at a machine with card.
With the Oystercard, you swipe it while entering and exiting. With NYC's MetroCards, you only swipe while entering (there being a flat fare of $2 for all subway rides, no matter where you go). Since they could only know where someone got on the subway, it would be hard to track them (unless of course you take the subway back, but even then you might get off at one place, and head back from another).
That said, you can pay with cash. Or skip out on MetroCards entirely and use those Single Pass cards, but you can save a lot with a MetroCard. And that savings is worth knowing that some bored NYCT worker could make the exciting discovery that I take the subway nearest my house to my school and back everyday.
Its not "one of the original pure OO languages", its THE original OO language. OO as a concept was demonstrated by making smalltalk.
The creators of Simula 67 would disagree. Simula was the first object-oriented language.
Not that it really matters who came first. Smalltalk is still around, while Simula is simply a relic [1].
For another interesting flamewar/discussion, ask a Common Lisp bigot and an Ada fanatic which language was the first standardized language - they will fight it out to the death. (For the record CL was an ANSI standard before Ada95 was an ISO one).
--
1. There is a GNU Simula compiler called Cim
You don't need open source to get the features of OpenSSH and VNC.
You could use the commercial SSH rather thann OpenSSH and something like Windows Terminal Services or Exceed in place of VNC.
any idea how to fix those? Seems they're all comeing up crappy...I had an urge to play PSO the other day...only to find the discs will spin up, but the laser does not emit any lgiht!
Check the Dreamcast Repair forum or buy a new GD-ROM drive, or just a new DC (which were $29.99 at EB last I saw)
Yeah, I haven't had any problems. 1.0 was released a few weeks ago, so I think they've been doing some pretty serious work recently.
If you haven't yet been inspired by all the other posts, you should know that Exult supports full speech and sound. Get it. It's good.
Exult has a ton of extra features over the original U7 engine, including:
SI-style "paper doll" support in BG
The ability to use the "T" button (pause and click on someone to talk) in BG
Configurable display size. This is great because you can configure Exult to show more of the game world on screen. The original U7 only did 320x200, but if you have a bigger screen, why not take advantage of it?
Unlimited save and restore slots. Each save also has a party list and screenshot associated with it
Sound support, including speech. I don't think I could ever get this to work with U7 under DOS
*Much* more stable. U7 was fairly buggy - random lockups were distressingly common. Exult hasn't crashed on me once.
Normal play speed. Exult doesn't require any sort of slow down utililty like moslo
The need for food seems to have disappeared. I beat BG recently and only had to feed my party once. I guess the Exult developers thought that the food system was a bad idea and just didn't implement it fully. In my book, not having to deal with Shamino whining "I must have food" every 2 minutes is a plus.
Advanced cheating system :)
So get Exult. It's better than the original, and runs under unix, too.
It was Ada that practically invented generics back in 95
Ada has had generics a lot longer than since 1995. They were in Ada83, the first standardized version of the language. Ada didn't get "full" object-orientation until Ada95, perhaps that is what you confused it with. It is interesting to note that Ada started with generics and added objects later, while C++ started with objects and added generics later.
and it's still one of only a few compilable languages (excepting gcj == java) that have a gc.
There is nothing special about a "compilable language" (whatever that means) using GC. Lisp has been doing it for decades (and yes, most Lisp systems are native code compilers, such as CMUCL, Allegro, CormanLisp, SBCL, etc). Oberon-2 compilers use GC, including the open source OOC and Oberon System3 from ETH. Ada was designed such that GC could be implemented, but it rarely is. Many FP languages use GC, such as Haskell. Haskell compilers, such as GHC, NHC, and HBC all use GC.
If you haven't gotten the point yet, there is nothing special about implementing languages using garbage collection, and furthermore, there was nothing innovative when Meyer decided to use it for Eiffel.
Funny, I live near there, and I know just the place. The guy has a TV set and a bunch of Mega Joy 2 systems out. I tried it out once, it worked pretty well. I've seen him selling both the version with the light gun, and also the version without, so if you want to buy, check to see if it comes with a light gun (and dont forget to test it first!).
Incidentally, Multimedia 1 (on St. Marks btwn 2nd and 3rd) has a bunch of all-in-one systems, both legit and pirate (including the one this story is about). As usual, their prices are on the expensive side, but if you want to buy from a reputable place, it might be your only option. They don't list these on the web site for some reason -- if you don't live in NYC, try giving them a call or something.
And finally, here are a few links on NES/Famicom pirate systems: NES Player and Gamer's Graveyard.
And they're comparing all those to just two countries in North America?
There are three countries in North America, not counting the Caribbean islands and what not.
Count them yourself: Canada, USA, and Mexico.
Some posts further down recommend interpreted languages like Python and LISP (jeez!) for such applications. They must be joking.
Lisp is not an "interpreted language" (if there even is such a thing as a *language* which needs to be interpreted). In fact, most open-source Lisp systems, as well as all commerical Lisps are compiled into native code.
I find it hard to believe that many people seem to think that after 40+ years of existence, Lisp is still interpreted, as if Lisp users, developers, and researchers were incapable of doing any better.
hell probably even serve web pages all without leaving the comfortable enclave of EMACS.
There's no "probably" about it. Phase does all that and more.
And I don't see how a vi user can deride "obscure commands and syntax?" But then, I never understood people who stuck to modal editors. Sure vi (not vim) is nice for configuring a newly-installed OpenBSD box, but it only takes a single pkg_add to install the latest XEmacs, and who needs vi after that? (except for recovery, of course!)
to bad Basic et al is an interpreted languge ;-)
:P
There's no such thing - there are many Basic compilers which produce native code - Moonrock, ASIC, and I believe the newer versions of Visual Basic (?)
See this old post also.
From all this you might think that I ever used Basic, but the fact is I never learned it
GEOS got licensed (sold?) to New Deal, who are promoting it as a software suite, New Deal Office, for old computers. Their primary customers seem to be schools.
You can download an evaluation version for free. They used to have (non-expiring) beta versions up for testing, but they no longer do. They also seem to have dumped Motif for something called "NewUI". I remember running NDO with OpenDOS, because the GEOS kernel could supposedly utilize OpenDOS's multitasking ability.
Bear in mind, that GEOS (now "NewDOS") is no longer promoted as a seperate product, rather as a means to an end (the office suite/web browser).