it's imap implementation is completely broken, which gives me little confidence in anything else it does. it is also a very bizarre piece of software to configure and run.
Naah, the "OS" only took up what was it, 2K of ram? Basic only had access to ~38K because of the rom and io map overlays, but assembly had easy access to 62K (well 65534 bytes, but you normally needed a screen and page zero was better used for data than code).
Anyway, even 16GB is scads of space for the target market - bosses who want to show off, and only need to store presentations and other documents on it.
I would argue that it is a bug in the language because it is simply a language feature, and leaks are a pretty poorly documented side-effect of using said feature.
The object life-cycle is poorly documented - but then again just about everything else in.net is poorly documented as well.
The only reason people do not accept Evolution is because they cannot believe that apes are our brothers. Partly because of mis-placed egotism, and mostly because of religion. After-all if we were made in "god's image" to "rule over all beasts", then it Evolution is an unacceptable concept.
Well maybe if you'd bought it, the original developers would still be around, and would already be working on a sequel or other new and interesting stuff.
Instead you're just going to get a port of a game that already worked just fine on the PS2, done by a publisher trying to make more money out of the idea.
The source as well as the 'rendered content' is already covered by copyright. Big deal. Yes, you cannot just go willy-nilly copying anyone's web page unless it is specifically allowed (odd, you would think it was from most of the comments here).
Copyright can't control viewing of material, only copying. So to say 'you can't view the source' 'its copyrighted' is utter nonsense. You MUST make a copy of the source code in order to view anything in the first place - perhaps they misundertand how web browsers work.
I wouldn't be hiring these 'IP' intellectuals any time soon if I were in need of one, that's for sure.
Anybody working a bugzilla for a popular project for long enough will be turned into a people hater. Its just the nature of the job. And with so many more greedy selfish bastards out there who want everything for nothing, who submit low quality reports with unreasonable demands, it's a lot worse than it once was.
You know, compared to back when the reporter was at least capable of writing a patch.
You might think it's ok to distribute patches, but the GPL doesn't. Patches don't cut it, you need to distribute the 'complete machine readable source code'.
> (.....my believing it wouldn't make it true.......) > > How do you know anything is true. In the end, you have to believe it is true or not.
Well I know a+a=2a is true, and that takes no belief - there is no room for belief in mathematics. So your argument doesn't hold up at all.
This is where theists get confused - science is not a belief system, it is a rigorous system for discovering details of the natural (real) world. 'Believing' something to be true, through the confidence to state a conclusion to a certain level of probability, based on repeatable results, is not even close to 'belief through faith'.
If you're an adult still believing in fairy tales - might I suggest you improve your education.
It used to be ok but SBS has gone down-hill tremendously since they brought in the 1 hour main bulletin.
They fill it with all these canned stories about how great things are going in Iraq because some little girl got to go to school for the first time and so forth. A 'happy news' story once in a while is ok, but they do it all the time - and it's hardly hard-hitting journalism.
Because of that sort of stuff and the advertising breaks they added, I no longer watch the SBS news regularly as I had for years.
ABC's journalism isn't really that flash any more either for that matter, like everyone else, news budgets have been cut too much to do it properly. If you live in the smaller cities of Australia you get quite a bit of canned news from Sydney - it is particularly noticeable for sports coverage - which is very poor.
Mono doesn't even fully implement.NET 2.0, let alone 3.0. So although WinForms not working is yet another shortcoming - it isn't even the start of the matter.
It's got a long way to go - but I guess they can try.
As for WPF, it's a giant, bloated, slow, and buggy API missing a lot of features you're expected to pay 3rd parties for - and it also relies on.NET 3.0. I think it would be a waste of time to try to get it going - better to spend your time doing something else. It'd be a bit like the Lesstif project was - by the time it finally got usable enough Motif was long dead. And given that Silverlight is essentially (from what I can tell) a lighter-yet-incompatible reimplementation of WPF, then it may already be dead.
WPF might be revolutionary to WinForms coders, but to anyone outside of the MS fold, it isn't anything than just another modern-ish toolkit - and not a particularly outstanding one at that. I've been fighting it for the last 18 months at work, and it hasn't been pleasant. Terrible performance, obscure and hard to trace bugs, atrocious documentation, limited features, it goes on and on... at least GTK+ only had a couple of those, and all of them could be fixed since you had the source and the possibility of feeding changes back to the world.
It is interesting to note that Moonlight itself is being written in C++, and not C# running under Mono. I guess Mono is just being used as the scripting language engine.
That's a massive margin they're making there - 33%!!! Wow. The per song upload cost would be a negligible one-off cost - much more than a store-front selling physical media - which probably has a lower margin.
To say they're making a pittance is bullshit. They may as well be printing money...
It's wrong. Just more apologetic shit trying to sway the masses.
People are hardwired to believe what they're told and to follow leaders. They're just naturally credulous, which helps to maintain some social balance in times of hardship. The problem is that they also tend to believe charlatans and thieves - i.e. religious 'leaders' who are just trying to control people.
His point is true as it is simple. Because of the way humans have evolved as social animals, they have certain social responsibilities that need to be followed so that society as a whole continues to operate. e.g. the responsibility to behave appropriately, and as suggested, not spread disease.
That is why public health issues demand mandatory measures - to protect the general population from uneducated or the uneducatable, as well as from themselves.
Linus is just trying to use his position to unduly influence an existing, mature project. Can't say I agree with everything GNOME does (the ok/cancel order really got to me, when I had to change many requesters over) - but they have a style guide. They have a vision and a goal and people working towards that goal. For someone like Linus to come along and try to affect that vision in such a manner isn't going to go anywhere and will just create division in their community. If it was anyone else - and surely there are many many as equally competent and strong-minded individuals out there - he'd just have been ignored silently like many others have been for years.
It reminds me of the way Miguel would force us to do the same sort of things - because of his personal preference - but he got his way because he was the boss and also an influential figure. But it didn't really make anyone happy or agree with him, except his cronies, who got some power and joy from such meddling. At the cost of some morale and productivity from the rest of us I might add.
I just ended up leaving GNOME (and Novell) partly because of this stuff myself (although not a big part) - but given the choice I still use it (actually i'm using xfce at home at the moment, but only because it runs much better on my laptop with 'only' 512mb of ram, and it feels the same as GNOME does). I'm tired of 'tweaking' my 'desktop' - it doesn't do anything productive, it just wastes time.
Not having to code pages of stupid configure windows would save a lot of time and tedium from any coders job too, so I wouldn't blame them for not doing that either.
By definition 'hardcore gamers' are not the 'main-stream', they can't and wont ever 'dominate the industry'.
Just because the pc-game era has been dominated by 'hardcore' games (well at least among the 'hardcore gamers'), doesn't mean the industry has. It is just full of buzzwords, that don't really mean anything. Good games have always sold and there's always been a diverse range of games on a fairly wide number of platforms.
Maybe people are just sick of 'yet another kill everyone army trainer' - I know I could never really get into fps games although I tried.
Not that any data from the story really supports that notion anyway - xbox owners traditionally fit into the juveline blood thirsty teenage boy category who wear 'hardcore' as a badge of honour, so GOW was always going to sell on such a relatively small platform, and Cars had MUCH wider brand recognition, appeal and installed base to target.
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\r\n? If it is in the mail handling code ... then it will have to be there and also in any other mail program.
It is part of various mail rfcs, and has nothing to do with dos and everything to do with standards and interoperability.
ahh no no no, courier is terrible.
it's imap implementation is completely broken, which gives me little confidence in anything else it does. it is also a very bizarre piece of software to configure and run.
Naah, the "OS" only took up what was it, 2K of ram? Basic only had access to ~38K because of the rom and io map overlays, but assembly had easy access to 62K (well 65534 bytes, but you normally needed a screen and page zero was better used for data than code).
Anyway, even 16GB is scads of space for the target market - bosses who want to show off, and only need to store presentations and other documents on it.
I would argue that it is a bug in the language because it is simply a language feature, and leaks are a pretty poorly documented side-effect of using said feature.
.net is poorly documented as well.
The object life-cycle is poorly documented - but then again just about everything else in
It's not even that. Half the revenue of "boxed" sales. Pre-loaded wouldn't count, and that's how most people get their os isn't it?
The only reason people do not accept Evolution is because they cannot believe that apes are our brothers. Partly because of mis-placed egotism, and mostly because of religion. After-all if we were made in "god's image" to "rule over all beasts", then it Evolution is an unacceptable concept.
Well maybe if you'd bought it, the original developers would still be around, and would already be working on a sequel or other new and interesting stuff.
Instead you're just going to get a port of a game that already worked just fine on the PS2, done by a publisher trying to make more money out of the idea.
The source as well as the 'rendered content' is already covered by copyright. Big deal. Yes, you cannot just go willy-nilly copying anyone's web page unless it is specifically allowed (odd, you would think it was from most of the comments here).
Copyright can't control viewing of material, only copying. So to say 'you can't view the source' 'its copyrighted' is utter nonsense. You MUST make a copy of the source code in order to view anything in the first place - perhaps they misundertand how web browsers work.
I wouldn't be hiring these 'IP' intellectuals any time soon if I were in need of one, that's for sure.
He's not running excel on the fucking things. That's general computing.
Is this microsoft-funded PR?
Anybody working a bugzilla for a popular project for long enough will be turned into a people hater. Its just the nature of the job. And with so many more greedy selfish bastards out there who want everything for nothing, who submit low quality reports with unreasonable demands, it's a lot worse than it once was.
You know, compared to back when the reporter was at least capable of writing a patch.
You might think it's ok to distribute patches, but the GPL doesn't. Patches don't cut it, you need to distribute the 'complete machine readable source code'.
> (.....my believing it wouldn't make it true.......)
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> How do you know anything is true. In the end, you have to believe it is true or not.
Well I know a+a=2a is true, and that takes no belief - there is no room for belief in mathematics. So your argument doesn't hold up at all.
This is where theists get confused - science is not a belief system, it is a rigorous system for discovering details of the natural (real) world. 'Believing' something to be true, through the confidence to state a conclusion to a certain level of probability, based on repeatable results, is not even close to 'belief through faith'.
If you're an adult still believing in fairy tales - might I suggest you improve your education.
Was a bit sceptical when he went to work for ATI having been a long-time 'open saucer' but its good to see some good came of it in the end ...
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Now if only Ubuntu on my thinkpad had 3d drivers which worked
It used to be ok but SBS has gone down-hill tremendously since they brought in the 1 hour main bulletin.
They fill it with all these canned stories about how great things are going in Iraq because some little girl got to go to school for the first time and so forth. A 'happy news' story once in a while is ok, but they do it all the time - and it's hardly hard-hitting journalism.
Because of that sort of stuff and the advertising breaks they added, I no longer watch the SBS news regularly as I had for years.
ABC's journalism isn't really that flash any more either for that matter, like everyone else, news budgets have been cut too much to do it properly. If you live in the smaller cities of Australia you get quite a bit of canned news from Sydney - it is particularly noticeable for sports coverage - which is very poor.
Mono doesn't even fully implement .NET 2.0, let alone 3.0. So although WinForms not working is yet another shortcoming - it isn't even the start of the matter.
.NET 3.0. I think it would be a waste of time to try to get it going - better to spend your time doing something else. It'd be a bit like the Lesstif project was - by the time it finally got usable enough Motif was long dead. And given that Silverlight is essentially (from what I can tell) a lighter-yet-incompatible reimplementation of WPF, then it may already be dead.
... at least GTK+ only had a couple of those, and all of them could be fixed since you had the source and the possibility of feeding changes back to the world.
It's got a long way to go - but I guess they can try.
As for WPF, it's a giant, bloated, slow, and buggy API missing a lot of features you're expected to pay 3rd parties for - and it also relies on
WPF might be revolutionary to WinForms coders, but to anyone outside of the MS fold, it isn't anything than just another modern-ish toolkit - and not a particularly outstanding one at that. I've been fighting it for the last 18 months at work, and it hasn't been pleasant. Terrible performance, obscure and hard to trace bugs, atrocious documentation, limited features, it goes on and on
It is interesting to note that Moonlight itself is being written in C++, and not C# running under Mono. I guess Mono is just being used as the scripting language engine.
Well, neither will pedophilia, that doesn't mean we should accept it as socially acceptable either.
That's a massive margin they're making there - 33%!!! Wow. The per song upload cost would be a negligible one-off cost - much more than a store-front selling physical media - which probably has a lower margin.
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To say they're making a pittance is bullshit. They may as well be printing money
Visual Studio .NET? Oh dear. It is definitely the buggiest piece of software i've ever used in anger. And slowest too.
And there's usually a LOT of anger involved in using it.
That's assuming that time even exists :)
Not everything is cyclic anyway - e.g. atomic decay.
try using virtual desktops ...
It's wrong. Just more apologetic shit trying to sway the masses.
People are hardwired to believe what they're told and to follow leaders. They're just naturally credulous, which helps to maintain some social balance in times of hardship. The problem is that they also tend to believe charlatans and thieves - i.e. religious 'leaders' who are just trying to control people.
You know it makes sense - say no to religion.
His point is true as it is simple. Because of the way humans have evolved as social animals, they have certain social responsibilities that need to be followed so that society as a whole continues to operate. e.g. the responsibility to behave appropriately, and as suggested, not spread disease.
That is why public health issues demand mandatory measures - to protect the general population from uneducated or the uneducatable, as well as from themselves.
Linus is just trying to use his position to unduly influence an existing, mature project. Can't say I agree with everything GNOME does (the ok/cancel order really got to me, when I had to change many requesters over) - but they have a style guide. They have a vision and a goal and people working towards that goal. For someone like Linus to come along and try to affect that vision in such a manner isn't going to go anywhere and will just create division in their community. If it was anyone else - and surely there are many many as equally competent and strong-minded individuals out there - he'd just have been ignored silently like many others have been for years.
It reminds me of the way Miguel would force us to do the same sort of things - because of his personal preference - but he got his way because he was the boss and also an influential figure. But it didn't really make anyone happy or agree with him, except his cronies, who got some power and joy from such meddling. At the cost of some morale and productivity from the rest of us I might add.
I just ended up leaving GNOME (and Novell) partly because of this stuff myself (although not a big part) - but given the choice I still use it (actually i'm using xfce at home at the moment, but only because it runs much better on my laptop with 'only' 512mb of ram, and it feels the same as GNOME does). I'm tired of 'tweaking' my 'desktop' - it doesn't do anything productive, it just wastes time.
Not having to code pages of stupid configure windows would save a lot of time and tedium from any coders job too, so I wouldn't blame them for not doing that either.
By definition 'hardcore gamers' are not the 'main-stream', they can't and wont ever 'dominate the industry'.
Just because the pc-game era has been dominated by 'hardcore' games (well at least among the 'hardcore gamers'), doesn't mean the industry has. It is just full of buzzwords, that don't really mean anything. Good games have always sold and there's always been a diverse range of games on a fairly wide number of platforms.
Maybe people are just sick of 'yet another kill everyone army trainer' - I know I could never really get into fps games although I tried.
Not that any data from the story really supports that notion anyway - xbox owners traditionally fit into the juveline blood thirsty teenage boy category who wear 'hardcore' as a badge of honour, so GOW was always going to sell on such a relatively small platform, and Cars had MUCH wider brand recognition, appeal and installed base to target.