> The main downside here for the Unix camp in the > Microsoft vs. Unix marketing war is that while > NT users would be able to use their favorite > Unix apps, the most popular NT apps still won't > be available for Unix.
Of course, if we're lucky, maybe it'll go the way of OS/2. Everyone said (well, not *everyone*) OS/2 died because no one wrote native apps when you could just run the Windows 3.1 version on it. So why write NT apps when you can write apps for *NIX/Linux and it works on both!
I don't know if I really want people who don't care enough to make the effort of registering to be voting in the first place. If anything, maybe registering should be harder. Voter turnout doesn't necessarily mean good voters.
It's already pretty easy to register, all you have to do is go down to the local DMV and fill out a form (remember the hoopla about the "motor voter bill" not too long ago?). If that's too much trouble, how can we expect people to make an informed decision on who should be president?
Now, my idea of an "informed decision" may be different than someone else's, but it seems to me our biggest problem is that no one really looks into the candidates they're voting for. They just watch the sugar-coated TV coverage, where everyone spouts off their "platform", but the truth is in what they did before.
Most people that are running for office tend to have been in some kind of political office before. It's not too difficult to see what bills they put their name on.
C'mon, people, it's only deciding who controls your life for the next 4 years!:)
Basically, it comes down to: Postgres is much more complete (it has more of the SQL spec implemented -- transactions, etc.). MySQL is much faster. It all comes down to how you expect to use it. If you are going to be doing complex joins and transactions and such, MySQL probably won't cut it (yet), otherwise, MySQL (most definitely!) makes up in speed what it lacks in features.
There's obviously more to it than that, but I'm not aware of any specific comparisons...
I've played with FreeBSD off and on, and I recently installed it again, this time vowing to really take a look around, instead of just playing with the install. I haven't had much chance to play with it yet, but from what I've seen, I'm about like you. I don't see enough of a difference to really make one stand out above the other...
...except for one thing: ports! The ports collection has to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen. It has all the advantages of control by compiling yourself, slackware-style, but still allowing package management and dependencies. I love just going into the tree and typing "make" when I want to install something.
I'm seriously tempted to make a Linux distribution based around ports, don't know if I have the stick-to-it-iveness to do it, but it definitely would be cool. Hrmm....
Don't underestimate the ability of a six year old. My five year old nephew knows how to change the tape in the VCR and operate the TV remote. He knows how to work a Mac, and how to change the CD in the drive.
Just goes to show ya... managment CAN be done by a 6-year-old.:)
> Throw it out, and you get rid of the morons. C++ > is a good replacement, because that way the > idiots know they can't code. Perl tricks them, > and then we all pay the penalty.
Oooh, yeah! Why don't we get rid of cars, too? Oh, and computers in general! That'll get rid of all the idiots...:)
Really, I see no reason why I should do things the hard way just to prove myself. Perl can be impossible to read -- *IF* the person writing it doesn't know how. It can also be very clear and easy to follow.
The advantage to Perl is it's flexibility, but the same thing that allows you to do more good allows you to do more evil.:)
> So to anyone who has seen both the movie and > the original "episode," how do they compare? Is > the movie really that far out there?
Just think of how much you laughed the first time you saw the Spirit of Christmas clip, and do that for an entire movie... I think the movie was funnier than Spirit of Christmas (and they even made some references to it).
Suprisingly, I think it came off as more vulgar overall than the short, but it's hard to judge.
Oh, and did anyone notice some of the "cameos" doing voices? I remember Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead), and Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek), and I know there were others... pretty funny.
Actually, I think he was referring to Windows NT, which started out at 3.1... of course, maybe they did that because it was based on the OS/2 codebase, and OS/2 already had a 2.x by then...;)
> It's high time we had more people blindly > following rules, and less people judging a > situation based on whether it's right or wrong > and raising a protest if they don't agree.
The difference is, Creative (assumedly) *agreed* to the NDA in the first place. They long ago decided to follow those rules, however faulty anyone may think they are.
We have yet to see whether there is any proof to 3Dfx's statement; judging by their previous litigation, I'm inclined to believe there isn't. That doesn't change the fact that 3Dfx wants their code proprietary, and Creative agreed with it so they could sell 3Dfx cards.
I'd been waiting to get the Voodoo 3 3500 (mpeg-2, video in and out), but the more I watch 3Dfx, the more it seems like they're on their way down, as another poster commented. Their reputation will carry them for a while, but if they keep this up, it won't carry them forever.
I'm not suprised at the nitpicking (hrrm... open source movie bugfixing?), but not because of the "maturity level" of Slashdot. It's more because of the nature of the medium in general.
We've been conditioned to naturally reject the (admittedly, not always) AOL "me too" syndrome. It seems to me that a lot of people are posting problems with the movie not because they hated it, but because there's no point at all in even posting an "I liked it" comment. There's no signal, just more noise to ignore.
Wow, I sound so clinical... Jar Jar annoys the hell out of me, but that doesn't mean that I didn't really enjoy TPM.:) Overall, I thought it was great.
There are a large number of telnet BBSes available. Try wandering darktech.org, or check out the telnet BBS webring at http://www.spuncrystal.com/public/bbstel.htm
I'm in the process of setting up a BBS for telnet+dialup right now.
the brackets []{} are slightly farther away, and the punctuation is slightly more convenient. The words you're typing for control (if, else, etc.) are so short that the difference in that respect is probably not all that much.
The real question is, would having the DOJ split them up make any difference at all?
I mean, tell me now, is there really going to be any difference between Microsoft The Corporation and Microsoft The Conglomerate?
The only way to truly cripple MS would be to open source them, or just disband them. Of course, even if Open Sourcing (TM) them was a good idea (I have no idea if it would really be good in the first place), that still doesn't mean the DOJ would have any idea how to go about it. Hell, no one has ever had an Open Source company that big, I'm sure *no one* really knows how to go about it.
Maybe the only good solution is to bomb Redmond.:)
Is it me, or is the network install disk broken? It worked for my late february install of rawhide, but I recently tried upgrading, and now it won't connect to anything...
I went to an amiga convention in St. Louis a couple of days ago. I love the old machines, but it seems like the wind has been let out of everyone's sails.
One of the big things that seems to keep the Amiga alive is the video toaster/flyer. It's great for budget editing, and even more, still. Of course, Newtek told us that they're open-sourcing the flyer software (cool!). The thing is, they've got a new PC capture card/software combo. It isn't a toaster yet, but the guy we talked to (the east coast sales rep) called Amiga a "dead, well... comatose" platform, and then all but said their new hardware is going to be the toaster for PC. He pretty much hinted that the hardware does stuff the software doesn't yet, and with a software upgrade you've got a full uncompressed film quality flyer on your hands.
Hey, could you give me an email? I have a friend that's going to be doing some major MP3-only distributing. Your user info doesn't have your e-mail address.:)
> Personally, I dont see why people want web based > email. Any self-respecting computer that can > give you web access should give you telnet.
But, in the interests of security, what about my server, where we only allow shell access from certain IP addresses? If I'm travelling, and my laptop gets fried, or my pilot gets smashed, or whatever, I can go to ANYone with net access and check my mail. No problem.
I don't use it as my main account (it's a pain in the ass) but HoTMaiL is definitely good insurance.:)
> Then the only problems will be the bloat in > Office.
Actually, I think the real problem is the bloat in the MS libraries, and Visual F-. Hrm... almost all Windows programs are bloated. Almost all Windows programs are written in Visual Basic and Visual C. I wonder if there's a connection?
Maybe if they replaced their libraries, Office would install in under 150 meg...
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> The main downside here for the Unix camp in the
> Microsoft vs. Unix marketing war is that while
> NT users would be able to use their favorite
> Unix apps, the most popular NT apps still won't
> be available for Unix.
Of course, if we're lucky, maybe it'll go the way of OS/2. Everyone said (well, not *everyone*) OS/2 died because no one wrote native apps when you could just run the Windows 3.1 version on it. So why write NT apps when you can write apps for *NIX/Linux and it works on both!
:)
// This is not meant as a flame!
:)
I don't know if I really want people who don't care enough to make the effort of registering to be voting in the first place. If anything, maybe registering should be harder. Voter turnout doesn't necessarily mean good voters.
It's already pretty easy to register, all you have to do is go down to the local DMV and fill out a form (remember the hoopla about the "motor voter bill" not too long ago?). If that's too much trouble, how can we expect people to make an informed decision on who should be president?
Now, my idea of an "informed decision" may be different than someone else's, but it seems to me our biggest problem is that no one really looks into the candidates they're voting for. They just watch the sugar-coated TV coverage, where everyone spouts off their "platform", but the truth is in what they did before.
Most people that are running for office tend to have been in some kind of political office before. It's not too difficult to see what bills they put their name on.
C'mon, people, it's only deciding who controls your life for the next 4 years!
// End rant.
Sorry, I know this is a serious discussion, but I can't really add anything that hasn't already been said, so I'll stick to the funnies.
:)
Just wanted to tell you that the "pubic domain" typo just made my day.
Basically, it comes down to: Postgres is much more complete (it has more of the SQL spec implemented -- transactions, etc.). MySQL is much faster. It all comes down to how you expect to use it. If you are going to be doing complex joins and transactions and such, MySQL probably won't cut it (yet), otherwise, MySQL (most definitely!) makes up in speed what it lacks in features.
There's obviously more to it than that, but I'm not aware of any specific comparisons...
I've played with FreeBSD off and on, and I recently installed it again, this time vowing to really take a look around, instead of just playing with the install. I haven't had much chance to play with it yet, but from what I've seen, I'm about like you. I don't see enough of a difference to really make one stand out above the other...
...except for one thing: ports! The ports collection has to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen. It has all the advantages of control by compiling yourself, slackware-style, but still allowing package management and dependencies. I love just going into the tree and typing "make" when I want to install something.
I'm seriously tempted to make a Linux distribution based around ports, don't know if I have the stick-to-it-iveness to do it, but it definitely would be cool. Hrmm....
Yeah, but does it emulate the BSOD? :)
How about '--verbose'? :)
For something like parsing html, you'll actually want to look into \G, and walk through the text.
'perldoc perlre' is your friend. ;)
Just goes to show ya... managment CAN be done by a 6-year-old. :)
> Throw it out, and you get rid of the morons. C++
:)
:)
> is a good replacement, because that way the
> idiots know they can't code. Perl tricks them,
> and then we all pay the penalty.
Oooh, yeah! Why don't we get rid of cars, too? Oh, and computers in general! That'll get rid of all the idiots...
Really, I see no reason why I should do things the hard way just to prove myself. Perl can be impossible to read -- *IF* the person writing it doesn't know how. It can also be very clear and easy to follow.
The advantage to Perl is it's flexibility, but the same thing that allows you to do more good allows you to do more evil.
Perl doesn't kill programs, people do.
> So to anyone who has seen both the movie and
> the original "episode," how do they compare? Is
> the movie really that far out there?
Just think of how much you laughed the first time you saw the Spirit of Christmas clip, and do that for an entire movie... I think the movie was funnier than Spirit of Christmas (and they even made some references to it).
Suprisingly, I think it came off as more vulgar overall than the short, but it's hard to judge.
Oh, and did anyone notice some of the "cameos" doing voices? I remember Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead), and Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek), and I know there were others... pretty funny.
> My wife and I applauded at this scene (only
:)
> ones in the movie, however) and I usually think
> it's lame when people applaud at movies.
Depends on the crowd, I guess. Our *entire* theater cheered at that scene...
> I'm assuming you're speaking of Windows 3.1
;)
Actually, I think he was referring to Windows NT, which started out at 3.1... of course, maybe they did that because it was based on the OS/2 codebase, and OS/2 already had a 2.x by then...
> It's high time we had more people blindly
> following rules, and less people judging a
> situation based on whether it's right or wrong
> and raising a protest if they don't agree.
The difference is, Creative (assumedly) *agreed* to the NDA in the first place. They long ago decided to follow those rules, however faulty anyone may think they are.
We have yet to see whether there is any proof to 3Dfx's statement; judging by their previous litigation, I'm inclined to believe there isn't. That doesn't change the fact that 3Dfx wants their code proprietary, and Creative agreed with it so they could sell 3Dfx cards.
I'd been waiting to get the Voodoo 3 3500 (mpeg-2, video in and out), but the more I watch 3Dfx, the more it seems like they're on their way down, as another poster commented. Their reputation will carry them for a while, but if they keep this up, it won't carry them forever.
I'm not suprised at the nitpicking (hrrm... open source movie bugfixing?), but not because of the "maturity level" of Slashdot. It's more because of the nature of the medium in general.
:) Overall, I thought it was great.
We've been conditioned to naturally reject the (admittedly, not always) AOL "me too" syndrome. It seems to me that a lot of people are posting problems with the movie not because they hated it, but because there's no point at all in even posting an "I liked it" comment. There's no signal, just more noise to ignore.
Wow, I sound so clinical... Jar Jar annoys the hell out of me, but that doesn't mean that I didn't really enjoy TPM.
It's been done... :)
:)
There are a large number of telnet BBSes available. Try wandering darktech.org, or check out the telnet BBS webring at http://www.spuncrystal.com/public/bbstel.htm
I'm in the process of setting up a BBS for telnet+dialup right now.
Isn't nostalgia wonderful?
Truthfully, it seems about the same to me...
the brackets []{} are slightly farther away, and the punctuation is slightly more convenient. The words you're typing for control (if, else, etc.) are so short that the difference in that respect is probably not all that much.
I would say it's pretty much even.
The real question is, would having the DOJ split them up make any difference at all?
:)
I mean, tell me now, is there really going to be any difference between Microsoft The Corporation and Microsoft The Conglomerate?
The only way to truly cripple MS would be to open source them, or just disband them. Of course, even if Open Sourcing (TM) them was a good idea (I have no idea if it would really be good in the first place), that still doesn't mean the DOJ would have any idea how to go about it. Hell, no one has ever had an Open Source company that big, I'm sure *no one* really knows how to go about it.
Maybe the only good solution is to bomb Redmond.
Is it me, or is the network install disk broken? It worked for my late february install of rawhide, but I recently tried upgrading, and now it won't connect to anything...
Anyone had any luck with this?
> Add a way to order the boxes on the right and
;)
> voila!
Uhhh... you can. That's what the little up and down triangles are around the "X".
You may have to customize your sidebar to do it.
I went to an amiga convention in St. Louis a couple of days ago. I love the old machines, but it seems like the wind has been let out of everyone's sails.
:(
One of the big things that seems to keep the Amiga alive is the video toaster/flyer. It's great for budget editing, and even more, still. Of course, Newtek told us that they're open-sourcing the flyer software (cool!). The thing is, they've got a new PC capture card/software combo. It isn't a toaster yet, but the guy we talked to (the east coast sales rep) called Amiga a "dead, well... comatose" platform, and then all but said their new hardware is going to be the toaster for PC. He pretty much hinted that the hardware does stuff the software doesn't yet, and with a software upgrade you've got a full uncompressed film quality flyer on your hands.
Bye-bye Amiga.
Hey, could you give me an email? I have a friend that's going to be doing some major MP3-only distributing. Your user info doesn't have your e-mail address. :)
> Personally, I dont see why people want web based
:)
> email. Any self-respecting computer that can
> give you web access should give you telnet.
But, in the interests of security, what about my server, where we only allow shell access from certain IP addresses? If I'm travelling, and my laptop gets fried, or my pilot gets smashed, or whatever, I can go to ANYone with net access and check my mail. No problem.
I don't use it as my main account (it's a pain in the ass) but HoTMaiL is definitely good insurance.
> Then the only problems will be the bloat in
> Office.
Actually, I think the real problem is the bloat in the MS libraries, and Visual F-. Hrm... almost all Windows programs are bloated. Almost all Windows programs are written in Visual Basic and Visual C. I wonder if there's a connection?
Maybe if they replaced their libraries, Office would install in under 150 meg...
Naaah.
Haha... gee, uhh... yeah. I think I heard something about that at Slashdot.
(grin)