But it will ALWAYS remain free under a MIT or BSD license! The idea that it can somehow be made non-free is a malicious myth started by the FSF. Someone can make *their* copy unfree, but they cannot make *my* copy unfree. No matter what Microsoft does, my copy of FreeBSD will ALWAYS be free.
Hârn is a great setting, but many of its gamemasters prefer the "serfs stuck in the manner" campaign. These can get quite dull. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore than D&D has to about silly dungeon crawls. It's a great setting for cthulhu-esque horror, political intrigue, exploring ancient civilizations, and sweeping military campaigns.
Where many newbies to Hârn get messed up, is that it doesn't provide a pre-determined campaign direction. You'll have to figure that one out on your own. More info on this great game at www.harnforum.com
Most game stores get their stock from distributors, and distributors want to buy in huge lots that will quickly sell. It's a small market, so most games and supplements never show up in a game store. You're going to have to find them online.
If people are excited about this, maybe it's time they broadened their horizons and examined some non-d20 games. Really! They do exist! You don't have to settle for the Microsoft of roleplaying.
If you want gritty low-magic, Chivalry & Sorcery and HârnMaster have been around for two decades. Newer games such as Burning Wheel and The Riddle of Steel also provide nice gritty action. Or explore completely new genres with Serenity, Traveller, Call of Cthulhu, and Tekumel.
No, the problem is that there is no longer a distinction between desktops and workstations. CPUs are faster and cheaper now, and workstation strength is now standard for consumer PCs. Why is my 400Mhz UltraSparc a "workstation", but my 3GHz Pentium a "desktop"? Both have equivalent form factors, both have large monitors, both are running roughly equivalent operating systems (FreeBSD vs Solaris), both have clicky icons on the gooey. So what's the difference? Other than price?
Precisely. Some of the newer workstations are starting to get shoddy PC-like workmanship, but the older hardware was very solid. My company still has some Sparc V "pizza boxes" in active duty, some of which haven't been rebooted since the last power outage over two years ago. Compare the construction to that of a Dell, and it's apples and oranges.
if bill gates' wife was admitted to the hospital and put on life support managed by one particular OS, which OS do you think he'd actually trust?
The answer had better be "Windows", because that's what he is going to get. I work for one of big three medical technology corporations, and EVERYTHING is migrating to Windows. Even your lowly EKG. It's gotten to the point that many realtime requirements are being abandoned because Windows won't support it.
Small medical technology companies still use embedded and realtime operating systems, but the large ones are moving away from them as fast as possible.
The reason for this is the same as other companies: when the CEO uses Windows on the desktop, he sees no reason why the employees and customers can't use it either. Embedded developers are costly, Windows developers (particularly those who claim 10+ years of.NET experience) are a dime a dozen. You can outsource Windows development but it's a lot harder outsourcing RTOS development.
No, it just means that servers are more critical than clients. You can get away with a GUI that crashes now an again (people have lived with Windows for over a decade), but they expect the server to be rock solid.
But, I have seen many workstations running Linux...
To most people, a workstation is a desktop. "Desktop" itself is a very nebulous term, originally meaning a computer small enough to put on your desktop, but now meaning any client system you directly interact with. You also have the problem of many people using "desktop" to refer to a GUI operating environment. A "workstation" however, comfortably fits into all of the above. Workstations are desktops.
As I've said, if you think your way is better, you're quite free to implement it.
We already did! Ports predates portage by at least a decade!:-)
For old-school Unix hackers, make and sh are better tools to use. That doesn't mean they're necessarily the best for you. If you want to argue, go find a Ruby advocate...
I know several creationists, and have read Paul Johnson's books. But I have not yet heard any of them claim that bee flight disproved evolution. I can understand politicians making stuff up about their opponents, but not scientists. It's beneath them.
The "write once run anywhere" of Java is becoming more attractive all the time.
But it won't solve your problem. You will still have all those platforms to support. This is no different from C/C++, where one codebase creates one executable that runs on those Windows versions.
I know someone who switched to.NET/C#, from Java. He was told by both Microsoft and Miguel that it was cross platform. His applications continue to ONLY run under Windows, but he doesn't care, because he has been told that they are cross platform. When his applications don't run under Linux (duh) he tells them that it's Linux's fault. People believe what they want to believe.
FreeBSD ports are written in plain old make. Just make. A few ports here and there need a script for some things, and they're written in bourne shell. Not bash, just plain shell.
I am not criticizing Python, it's a great language. But you don't need a full blown high level language to manage a tree of ports.
My elected official is Nancy Pelosi. She was INFORMED about the wiretaps, and has admitted she was INFORMED about the wiretaps. Her gripe isn't that congress wasn't informed, her gripe is that congress wasn't asked for permission.
She and many of her colleagues don't want checks and balances on other branches of government, they want control over other branches of government.
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I wouldn't call it high-level. Neither is Python|Ruby Qt with Designer. The problem is that these toolkits were designed around a mid level paradigm. I would like to be able to directly manipulate the GUI at runtime as easily as I can manipulate text at runtime.
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The real problem with C++ is not what all of the trolls spew out of their yaps. Its real problem is that it is a mid-level language.
The reason I haven't moved on to "higher" level languages like Python or Ruby, is the dearth of high level GUI toolkits. X11, Win32, etc, are low level toolkits. Qt, GTK,.NET, are mid-level toolkits. Tk is the only high level toolkit I am aware of, but I respect my users too much to foist a Tk based application upon them.
My last project would have done well with Ruby, except for the lack of appropriate GUI toolkit.
p.s. Before you flame me to death, I am NOT a web developer. Ruby on Rails is NOT a solution for me. Anything involving client/server is NOT a solution for me.
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Don't condemn all of C++ just because some idiot wrote a Makefile in it. Get real. No one out there, not even the hardest of the diehard C++ fans, is advocating using C++ for everything. Stop being stupid.
In 21 years of coding, I have yet to see a project so simple that comments were not required. If you don't know how to write a comment, you have no business coding. If you cannot take the time to comment, you have no business coding. If you think comments are stupid, you have no business coding.
Someone has already mentioned the fact that you CAN partition and format drives in the installer, so thats wrong for a start.
Except that the WindowsXP partitioning software sucks. Drive letters are in a different order than are on the actual disks, it won't tell you if a partition is primary or extended, if it finds two primary patitions on the same drive it will bitch, is very inflexible, often messes up the partitions for other systems, and in general tries to outthink the user.
The best partitioner I've seen was Partition Magic. Such a program would be overkill for the Windows installer, but it has some good ideas that Microsoft should consider.
I've read it. It's still only half the story. The other half, which no one seems willing to admit, is that the ultra rich are invariably against the free market. If there were a free market in education, we wouldn't have this problem with schools.
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But it will ALWAYS remain free under a MIT or BSD license! The idea that it can somehow be made non-free is a malicious myth started by the FSF. Someone can make *their* copy unfree, but they cannot make *my* copy unfree. No matter what Microsoft does, my copy of FreeBSD will ALWAYS be free.
Hârn is a great setting, but many of its gamemasters prefer the "serfs stuck in the manner" campaign. These can get quite dull. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore than D&D has to about silly dungeon crawls. It's a great setting for cthulhu-esque horror, political intrigue, exploring ancient civilizations, and sweeping military campaigns.
Where many newbies to Hârn get messed up, is that it doesn't provide a pre-determined campaign direction. You'll have to figure that one out on your own. More info on this great game at www.harnforum.com
Most game stores get their stock from distributors, and distributors want to buy in huge lots that will quickly sell. It's a small market, so most games and supplements never show up in a game store. You're going to have to find them online.
If people are excited about this, maybe it's time they broadened their horizons and examined some non-d20 games. Really! They do exist! You don't have to settle for the Microsoft of roleplaying.
If you want gritty low-magic, Chivalry & Sorcery and HârnMaster have been around for two decades. Newer games such as Burning Wheel and The Riddle of Steel also provide nice gritty action. Or explore completely new genres with Serenity, Traveller, Call of Cthulhu, and Tekumel.
No, the problem is that there is no longer a distinction between desktops and workstations. CPUs are faster and cheaper now, and workstation strength is now standard for consumer PCs. Why is my 400Mhz UltraSparc a "workstation", but my 3GHz Pentium a "desktop"? Both have equivalent form factors, both have large monitors, both are running roughly equivalent operating systems (FreeBSD vs Solaris), both have clicky icons on the gooey. So what's the difference? Other than price?
Precisely. Some of the newer workstations are starting to get shoddy PC-like workmanship, but the older hardware was very solid. My company still has some Sparc V "pizza boxes" in active duty, some of which haven't been rebooted since the last power outage over two years ago. Compare the construction to that of a Dell, and it's apples and oranges.
if bill gates' wife was admitted to the hospital and put on life support managed by one particular OS, which OS do you think he'd actually trust?
.NET experience) are a dime a dozen. You can outsource Windows development but it's a lot harder outsourcing RTOS development.
The answer had better be "Windows", because that's what he is going to get. I work for one of big three medical technology corporations, and EVERYTHING is migrating to Windows. Even your lowly EKG. It's gotten to the point that many realtime requirements are being abandoned because Windows won't support it.
Small medical technology companies still use embedded and realtime operating systems, but the large ones are moving away from them as fast as possible.
The reason for this is the same as other companies: when the CEO uses Windows on the desktop, he sees no reason why the employees and customers can't use it either. Embedded developers are costly, Windows developers (particularly those who claim 10+ years of
No, it just means that servers are more critical than clients. You can get away with a GUI that crashes now an again (people have lived with Windows for over a decade), but they expect the server to be rock solid.
But, I have seen many workstations running Linux...
To most people, a workstation is a desktop. "Desktop" itself is a very nebulous term, originally meaning a computer small enough to put on your desktop, but now meaning any client system you directly interact with. You also have the problem of many people using "desktop" to refer to a GUI operating environment. A "workstation" however, comfortably fits into all of the above. Workstations are desktops.
But yet she is discussing it...
As I've said, if you think your way is better, you're quite free to implement it.
:-)
We already did! Ports predates portage by at least a decade!
For old-school Unix hackers, make and sh are better tools to use. That doesn't mean they're necessarily the best for you. If you want to argue, go find a Ruby advocate...
I know several creationists, and have read Paul Johnson's books. But I have not yet heard any of them claim that bee flight disproved evolution. I can understand politicians making stuff up about their opponents, but not scientists. It's beneath them.
The "write once run anywhere" of Java is becoming more attractive all the time.
But it won't solve your problem. You will still have all those platforms to support. This is no different from C/C++, where one codebase creates one executable that runs on those Windows versions.
I know someone who switched to .NET/C#, from Java. He was told by both Microsoft and Miguel that it was cross platform. His applications continue to ONLY run under Windows, but he doesn't care, because he has been told that they are cross platform. When his applications don't run under Linux (duh) he tells them that it's Linux's fault. People believe what they want to believe.
FreeBSD ports are written in plain old make. Just make. A few ports here and there need a script for some things, and they're written in bourne shell. Not bash, just plain shell.
I am not criticizing Python, it's a great language. But you don't need a full blown high level language to manage a tree of ports.
My elected official is Nancy Pelosi. She was INFORMED about the wiretaps, and has admitted she was INFORMED about the wiretaps. Her gripe isn't that congress wasn't informed, her gripe is that congress wasn't asked for permission.
She and many of her colleagues don't want checks and balances on other branches of government, they want control over other branches of government.
Speaking on the probabilities of dying, you are more likely to die of murder in Washington DC than by military action in Iraq.
Area 51 on google maps
Look at the farm to the north. Now that guy lives in the boonies!
"Gee Ditto, you're shit don't stink!"
I wouldn't call it high-level. Neither is Python|Ruby Qt with Designer. The problem is that these toolkits were designed around a mid level paradigm. I would like to be able to directly manipulate the GUI at runtime as easily as I can manipulate text at runtime.
The real problem with C++ is not what all of the trolls spew out of their yaps. Its real problem is that it is a mid-level language.
.NET, are mid-level toolkits. Tk is the only high level toolkit I am aware of, but I respect my users too much to foist a Tk based application upon them.
The reason I haven't moved on to "higher" level languages like Python or Ruby, is the dearth of high level GUI toolkits. X11, Win32, etc, are low level toolkits. Qt, GTK,
My last project would have done well with Ruby, except for the lack of appropriate GUI toolkit.
p.s. Before you flame me to death, I am NOT a web developer. Ruby on Rails is NOT a solution for me. Anything involving client/server is NOT a solution for me.
Don't condemn all of C++ just because some idiot wrote a Makefile in it. Get real. No one out there, not even the hardest of the diehard C++ fans, is advocating using C++ for everything. Stop being stupid.
In 21 years of coding, I have yet to see a project so simple that comments were not required. If you don't know how to write a comment, you have no business coding. If you cannot take the time to comment, you have no business coding. If you think comments are stupid, you have no business coding.
Someone has already mentioned the fact that you CAN partition and format drives in the installer, so thats wrong for a start.
Except that the WindowsXP partitioning software sucks. Drive letters are in a different order than are on the actual disks, it won't tell you if a partition is primary or extended, if it finds two primary patitions on the same drive it will bitch, is very inflexible, often messes up the partitions for other systems, and in general tries to outthink the user.
The best partitioner I've seen was Partition Magic. Such a program would be overkill for the Windows installer, but it has some good ideas that Microsoft should consider.
I've read it. It's still only half the story. The other half, which no one seems willing to admit, is that the ultra rich are invariably against the free market. If there were a free market in education, we wouldn't have this problem with schools.