That summary is pretty inflammatory. "New Python: Also, some people say Python sucks!"
What Larry sees as a virtue of Perl, the fact that it gives you myriad tools to accomplish your tasks, many see as over-complicating the matter. You can certainly do whatever you need to get done in Python (duh), but the Python folks pride themselves on giving you a good way. It's just a different approach to language design.
A (possibly) overwhelming everything-and-the-kitchen sink? Or tools crafted by experts? Personally, I love Perl, but there really doesn't need to be this counter-productive contention between the different approaches.
Is there some reason to not go this route? It seems a lot more obvious to me; no emulation needed. Continuum on Windows 10 Mobile on x86 solves most of these problems. I think Microsoft's last best chance for Windows Mobile to be anything other than a footnote is to support corporate desktops, and x86 phones that are also a corporate workers desktop seems like something they can manage in short order. At that point, good old-fashioned Microsoft inertia takes over and plenty of people start using their work platform as their personal device as well.
I don't see it conquering the world, but it's probably a profitable niche at least.
On topic with the last post on the front page, I think Microsoft's best move is to push in the same direction as Mozilla: web apps that are as good as native apps. Then your platform isn't the important thing.
Then why choose Windows (on your phone)? I think corporate workers would love for their work PC to just be the phone in their pocket. It should be x86-64 and run full-blown desktop application when a monitor, pointer and keyboard are attached. The latest Windows 10 Mobile is close, but it can't run any old x86 code. If my work PC was a Windows phone, I'd definitely find it easier to move in that direction in my personal life.
Web apps for the future, the occasional local app, and make the whole history of Windows on x86 a non-replicable asset for your platform.
Does Oracle own the OpenOffice name? I've been annoyed that it was officially called OpenOffice.org. That's name of a website, not a piece of software..
I agree that these analysts have no idea, but they don't leave it up in the air in the way that you characterize. They conclude with "Conclusion: GoogleOS will tackle Microsoft's Vista OS head on". Sounds totally insane and stupid to me, but they are firm in their conclusion.
Clueless analysts? Yes. Conclusion? Yeah, but it's also clueless.
Generally, a parent's job doesn't assign them work to have done by the beginning of the next workday. Of course, some places do, but this is generally uncommon, or a dang sucky job. I'd be sending my resume all over the place if my job expected me to work at home each night.
I'm a customer of both Comcast and Vonage. I won't say that Vonage is perfect, but for $25/month, it's pretty fantastic. We've had voicemail outages (voicemail doesn't pick, we can't check voicemail), and that sucks, but it's been very rare (3 times in a little over a year for a couple hours each time). We've had more trouble, in fact, with our Comcast cable modem and Comcast cable TV going down. Generally, the weak link seems to be Comcast, not Vonage.
My wife and I were at a local festival, and Comcast had a booth. I had to figure out why they could have the balls to advertise $40/month for what sounded like the same thing as Vonage. I told the rep that I was a Vonage customer, and I was willing to listen to his schpiel. "See, you're driving a Yugo, and what we've got here is a Lexus!" Uh huh.. So, what makes it a Lexus? He rattles off some features. Vonage includes every one of them. Oh, and Vonage includes calls to Canada and Western Europe. Hmm?
"See, you're driving a Yugo, and what we've got here is a Lexus!"
I thought I gave him a fair shot, and he had no actual arguments or points to make. I'll stay with Vonage, thanks much.
As it works now, Valve's releases have been available at retail, but they still install Steam, and the the game require Steam to operate, so there's no escaping that. So far, Steam hasn't had any sort of subscription option (with a recurring monthly charge), like you describe. It does look likely that you won't be able to buy Portal standalone, though. Looks like it will come part-and-parcel with Half-Life 2: Episode 2. You didn't need to own Half-Life 2 to play Episode 1, so you probably won't have to have either of the previous installments to play this batch.
You say 'theory', but it sounds more like this is a hypothesis, as it neither predicts anything testable so far, nor is it falsifiable. Theories (like punctuated equilibrium and general relativity) are generally well accepted and experimentally useful. The word 'theory' is a bit too generous at this juncture, it would seem.
As a work of the federal government, isn't the seal in the public domain? Wikipedia certainly think so. If that's the case, the government can't do much of anything to stop the Onion from doing whatever they want with it.
I took a quick looks at the site, so I apologize if I'm off-base here.. Does the new Neuros (or the old one..) have gapless playback? Can I play an album liks it's supposed to be heard, or will I hear infuriating little gaps between the songs?
For all the Rio Karma bashing I've read on here, I see very little discussion of this (IMO) essential feature. The Karma's got it in spades. I playback albums that I ripped years ago before I even though about gapless playback and they play flawlessly. Try listening to Badly Drawn Boy without gapless playback. Bad things...
Actually, all of November is in the Autumn (in the Northern Hemisphere). Autumn isn't over until the Winter Solstice, around December 21st. So, most of December is in the Autumn, but all of November is.
There are games out there that we own/previously owned because Gamers Must Have This Game. I've got a copy of the Starcrafts, HL, and the Diablos for this reason.
Really? Wow. I find that really sad. I consider myself a gamer, and I will be buying Doom 3 because I do in fact like that kind of game, and have enjoyed Half-Life, the Quakes,, etc. Though, as you mention, the Diablo games are classic, I never bought them or even played them much because I didn't enjoy them. I'm not going to waste (hard-drive|CD Jacket|Desk) space with a game I don't enjoy, no matter how popular they are. I gave Diablo a shot, but it ain't my cup of tea. I consider the "must have" games to be those games that I must have. I'll play before I buy..
If you don't like FPS's, Doom 3 is probably not worth your $55+. At least wait until it's in the bargain bin. As for me, I'll be there day one.
CubeSoft Communications is a company from Quebec which produces open-source software, funded by a quality UNIX hosting service, and a dedicated server/co-location service.
They're not free, but their cheapest setup is $5/month for a real shell login, web server access (including tons of interpreters, databases access, etc.), compiler access (they ask you to be reasonable), and just about full reign as a user on a shared UNIX system. They're also quick on service requests and have a great administration tool. From their website:
..Or Media Player Classic. It's a great Windows program that plays media for whatever codecs you have installed. WMV, Quicktime, Real, MPEG-?, DivX, DVD, or anything else. And it's got a very very simple interface.
Yup, French was pretty universal, at least in the west, hence the phrase 'lingua franca' which practically means 'the language that you can use everywhere' but literally means 'the French language,' (in Latin, no less..). I think..
Anyway, speaking of French, I knew a guy in college who had programmed C in French. All you need to do is fiddle with where the keywords are defined in the compiler. So he was writing 'durant' and 'pour' loops, along with 'si' statements. Pretty whacky..
The Pentium M is based on the same P6 core as the Pentium Pro through the Pentium III.
The really interesting part about this story is that Intel is going from their seventh generation architecture (Pentium 4) back to their sixth generation architecture (Pentium Pro/II/III/M).
We all knew this Pentium 4 thing would go nowhere..:) except for the millions and millions of dollars it got Intel. Now they're trying to gracefully back out. It seems like a sound technical decision. I say good for them.
No, no. Not the NRF part. Sure that's significant and interesting and all..
Look at the Groklaw link. It seems to be saying that SCO has dropped all claims that IBM did anything illegal with Linux kernel code. They're only pusrsuing the claim that IBM shouldn't be selling AIX and Dynix anymore (which is a pretty laughable claim, anyway).
They [SCO] are not suing IBM for "IBM's use, reproduction and improvement of Linux":
"
The only copyright claim SCO has asserted against IBM is primarily for IBM's continuing use of AIX and Dynix after SCO terminated IBM's UNIX licenses."
Yeah, except with a "free" iTunesMS track, you can only play it in iTunes. For those PC users who already like their player, switching to a whole new player with a gaudy Apple interface completely unlike anything else on Windows is reason enough to toss the bottle cap for the "free" track.
He, and others like him fly around to different tournaments pulling down 5 figure prizes quite often. I was at QuakeCon 2001 where he got second, and $10,000, and had just come from another tournament, and was on his way to yet another. So, he needed someone to drive his novelty check home. A buddy of mine volunteered, and we drove it home. So, we took advantage of the situation. It was fun.
For fun, you might like to look at a java applet I wrote soon after this book came out. You plug in Wolfram's codes and it'll produce dependant automata like he describes in some chapters.
I think the Silmarillion could be done as a movie or a couple movies if you focused mostly on the tale of Beren and Luthien. You could do a 20-minute intro with the waking of the elves and Feanor creating the Silmarils, followed by the exile of the Noldor. That should be quick and get us to Beren. There's plenty of material for what happened to him before he wandered through the girdle of Melian. Then of course Beren and Luthian making their way into Angband. We never really got to see Sauron in Jackson's LOTR, but we could see Morgoth!
Anyway, I still think it'd be quite a challenge to make it palatable and understandable to a mainstream audience, but I think the only way to get the Silmarillion on screen would be to focus on Beren and Luthien, arguably Tolkein's favorite story.
For a bit on Beren, go here. For a better outline and more info on Luthien go here.
The issues here is not whether the Silmarillion is as good as LOTR, (I think the stories are fantastic.) but of getting a good deal of the Silmarillion into the mainstream. I think Beren and Luthien could be the vehicle for that.
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That summary is pretty inflammatory. "New Python: Also, some people say Python sucks!"
What Larry sees as a virtue of Perl, the fact that it gives you myriad tools to accomplish your tasks, many see as over-complicating the matter. You can certainly do whatever you need to get done in Python (duh), but the Python folks pride themselves on giving you a good way. It's just a different approach to language design.
A (possibly) overwhelming everything-and-the-kitchen sink? Or tools crafted by experts? Personally, I love Perl, but there really doesn't need to be this counter-productive contention between the different approaches.
Is there some reason to not go this route? It seems a lot more obvious to me; no emulation needed. Continuum on Windows 10 Mobile on x86 solves most of these problems. I think Microsoft's last best chance for Windows Mobile to be anything other than a footnote is to support corporate desktops, and x86 phones that are also a corporate workers desktop seems like something they can manage in short order. At that point, good old-fashioned Microsoft inertia takes over and plenty of people start using their work platform as their personal device as well.
I don't see it conquering the world, but it's probably a profitable niche at least.
On topic with the last post on the front page, I think Microsoft's best move is to push in the same direction as Mozilla: web apps that are as good as native apps. Then your platform isn't the important thing.
Then why choose Windows (on your phone)? I think corporate workers would love for their work PC to just be the phone in their pocket. It should be x86-64 and run full-blown desktop application when a monitor, pointer and keyboard are attached. The latest Windows 10 Mobile is close, but it can't run any old x86 code. If my work PC was a Windows phone, I'd definitely find it easier to move in that direction in my personal life.
Web apps for the future, the occasional local app, and make the whole history of Windows on x86 a non-replicable asset for your platform.
Does Oracle own the OpenOffice name? I've been annoyed that it was officially called OpenOffice.org. That's name of a website, not a piece of software..
I agree that these analysts have no idea, but they don't leave it up in the air in the way that you characterize. They conclude with "Conclusion: GoogleOS will tackle Microsoft's Vista OS head on". Sounds totally insane and stupid to me, but they are firm in their conclusion.
Clueless analysts? Yes. Conclusion? Yeah, but it's also clueless.
Generally, a parent's job doesn't assign them work to have done by the beginning of the next workday. Of course, some places do, but this is generally uncommon, or a dang sucky job. I'd be sending my resume all over the place if my job expected me to work at home each night.
I'm a customer of both Comcast and Vonage. I won't say that Vonage is perfect, but for $25/month, it's pretty fantastic. We've had voicemail outages (voicemail doesn't pick, we can't check voicemail), and that sucks, but it's been very rare (3 times in a little over a year for a couple hours each time). We've had more trouble, in fact, with our Comcast cable modem and Comcast cable TV going down. Generally, the weak link seems to be Comcast, not Vonage.
My wife and I were at a local festival, and Comcast had a booth. I had to figure out why they could have the balls to advertise $40/month for what sounded like the same thing as Vonage. I told the rep that I was a Vonage customer, and I was willing to listen to his schpiel. "See, you're driving a Yugo, and what we've got here is a Lexus!" Uh huh.. So, what makes it a Lexus? He rattles off some features. Vonage includes every one of them. Oh, and Vonage includes calls to Canada and Western Europe. Hmm?
"See, you're driving a Yugo, and what we've got here is a Lexus!"
I thought I gave him a fair shot, and he had no actual arguments or points to make. I'll stay with Vonage, thanks much.
As it works now, Valve's releases have been available at retail, but they still install Steam, and the the game require Steam to operate, so there's no escaping that. So far, Steam hasn't had any sort of subscription option (with a recurring monthly charge), like you describe. It does look likely that you won't be able to buy Portal standalone, though. Looks like it will come part-and-parcel with Half-Life 2: Episode 2. You didn't need to own Half-Life 2 to play Episode 1, so you probably won't have to have either of the previous installments to play this batch.
$20 one time and you're done, if you like.
You say 'theory', but it sounds more like this is a hypothesis, as it neither predicts anything testable so far, nor is it falsifiable. Theories (like punctuated equilibrium and general relativity) are generally well accepted and experimentally useful. The word 'theory' is a bit too generous at this juncture, it would seem.
As a work of the federal government, isn't the seal in the public domain? Wikipedia certainly think so. If that's the case, the government can't do much of anything to stop the Onion from doing whatever they want with it.
Can't FF 4 zealots and FF 6 zealots get along? Both games totally rule. It's FF 7 that is the enemy!
Seriously, the first 10 hours of the game were not fun, IMO. Midgar City was not at all fun. NOT FUN!
You actually put the difference between their/there/they're in your sig, but you get loose/lose wrong? Come on...
I took a quick looks at the site, so I apologize if I'm off-base here.. Does the new Neuros (or the old one..) have gapless playback? Can I play an album liks it's supposed to be heard, or will I hear infuriating little gaps between the songs?
For all the Rio Karma bashing I've read on here, I see very little discussion of this (IMO) essential feature. The Karma's got it in spades. I playback albums that I ripped years ago before I even though about gapless playback and they play flawlessly. Try listening to Badly Drawn Boy without gapless playback. Bad things...
Actually, all of November is in the Autumn (in the Northern Hemisphere). Autumn isn't over until the Winter Solstice, around December 21st. So, most of December is in the Autumn, but all of November is.
There are games out there that we own/previously owned because Gamers Must Have This Game. I've got a copy of the Starcrafts, HL, and the Diablos for this reason.
Really? Wow. I find that really sad. I consider myself a gamer, and I will be buying Doom 3 because I do in fact like that kind of game, and have enjoyed Half-Life, the Quakes,, etc. Though, as you mention, the Diablo games are classic, I never bought them or even played them much because I didn't enjoy them. I'm not going to waste (hard-drive|CD Jacket|Desk) space with a game I don't enjoy, no matter how popular they are. I gave Diablo a shot, but it ain't my cup of tea. I consider the "must have" games to be those games that I must have. I'll play before I buy..
If you don't like FPS's, Doom 3 is probably not worth your $55+. At least wait until it's in the bargain bin. As for me, I'll be there day one.
I use CSoft for just this. From their website:
They're not free, but their cheapest setup is $5/month for a real shell login, web server access (including tons of interpreters, databases access, etc.), compiler access (they ask you to be reasonable), and just about full reign as a user on a shared UNIX system. They're also quick on service requests and have a great administration tool. From their website:
Look them up at csoft.net.
Google it here.
Yup, French was pretty universal, at least in the west, hence the phrase 'lingua franca' which practically means 'the language that you can use everywhere' but literally means 'the French language,' (in Latin, no less..). I think..
Anyway, speaking of French, I knew a guy in college who had programmed C in French. All you need to do is fiddle with where the keywords are defined in the compiler. So he was writing 'durant' and 'pour' loops, along with 'si' statements. Pretty whacky..
In French, though, 'C++' is 'Ç++'. Cool huh? :)
The Pentium M is based on the same P6 core as the Pentium Pro through the Pentium III.
The really interesting part about this story is that Intel is going from their seventh generation architecture (Pentium 4) back to their sixth generation architecture (Pentium Pro/II/III/M).
We all knew this Pentium 4 thing would go nowhere.. :) except for the millions and millions of dollars it got Intel. Now they're trying to gracefully back out. It seems like a sound technical decision. I say good for them.
No, no. Not the NRF part. Sure that's significant and interesting and all..
Look at the Groklaw link. It seems to be saying that SCO has dropped all claims that IBM did anything illegal with Linux kernel code. They're only pusrsuing the claim that IBM shouldn't be selling AIX and Dynix anymore (which is a pretty laughable claim, anyway).
Has SCO backed off of all Linux claims?!?
Yeah, except with a "free" iTunesMS track, you can only play it in iTunes. For those PC users who already like their player, switching to a whole new player with a gaudy Apple interface completely unlike anything else on Windows is reason enough to toss the bottle cap for the "free" track.
Thanks, but no thanks, Apple.
The Rio Karma is fantastic. I've been nothing but happy with mine. And these days, you can get a 20gb Karma for around $150 less than a 20gb iPod.
Plays mp3, wma, ogg and flac. Battery life is around 15 hours in my experience.
Need I say more?
He, and others like him fly around to different tournaments pulling down 5 figure prizes quite often. I was at QuakeCon 2001 where he got second, and $10,000, and had just come from another tournament, and was on his way to yet another. So, he needed someone to drive his novelty check home. A buddy of mine volunteered, and we drove it home. So, we took advantage of the situation. It was fun.
For fun, you might like to look at a java applet I wrote soon after this book came out. You plug in Wolfram's codes and it'll produce dependant automata like he describes in some chapters.
The applet is here, at my personal website. Enjoy!
You may also notice the background image one of those automata. :)
I think the Silmarillion could be done as a movie or a couple movies if you focused mostly on the tale of Beren and Luthien. You could do a 20-minute intro with the waking of the elves and Feanor creating the Silmarils, followed by the exile of the Noldor. That should be quick and get us to Beren. There's plenty of material for what happened to him before he wandered through the girdle of Melian. Then of course Beren and Luthian making their way into Angband. We never really got to see Sauron in Jackson's LOTR, but we could see Morgoth!
Anyway, I still think it'd be quite a challenge to make it palatable and understandable to a mainstream audience, but I think the only way to get the Silmarillion on screen would be to focus on Beren and Luthien, arguably Tolkein's favorite story.
For a bit on Beren, go here. For a better outline and more info on Luthien go here.
The issues here is not whether the Silmarillion is as good as LOTR, (I think the stories are fantastic.) but of getting a good deal of the Silmarillion into the mainstream. I think Beren and Luthien could be the vehicle for that.