It says that Kylix will become open source. Kylix is an IDE, not a compiler.
So the question is... are there any good free compilers for Linux?;)
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There is a difference between what is wrong and what is illegal, and xversely (no clue if this is inverse or converse), a difference between what is legal and what is right. The social contract is based on right and wrong, not on law, and IMO, there is nothing wrong with the sale and use of recreational drugs, from chocolate to crack. None of them are nearly as dangerous as antibiotics. With each prescription, we inch just a little closer to the bug that will kill people by the millions, yet we continue to focus on drugs that people largely enjoy, and generally dull more suffering than any they _may_ create.
As for the other half of our prison population, I still don't see why they can't vote. Exclusion from society doesn't appear to be any more effective than inclusion, so what difference does it make?
Besides, most of the American social degenerates aren't behind bars -- take a look at who ran for office!
Ouch, that was some really poor writing. Did I really post that? What time is it? Naw, it can't be! Bah, the statements are there, they just look like crap. Sheesh, I do too! Maybe this election coverage is just lulling me to...
I notice very little difference in bootup time between my PII 450 W2K box (256MB RAM) and my Celeron 366A@458 RH6.1 (128MB RAM) system. It's hard to say where the boot process ends, though, but they both seem just as unresponsive when you initially log in, too. Neither system requires anywhere near 15 minutes -- the figure of 3 minutes seems just about right.
Try holding the power button down for a few seconds, BTW. If Linux had decent/any(?) ACPI support, it would behave the same way. I question why you would want to do that to ANY operating system, but to each his own. I reckon you would fare much better with your own components as well -- even without the chassis cover, I rarely hear the 30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP in my PII, and it also happens to be one of the fastest IDE drives currently available...
And what's so wrong about felons being able to vote? This whole subject would be pointless if the U.S. had an incarceration rate up there with the former Soviet Union.
Of course, the Soviets had zero tolerance for "crimes" against the Communist party, while the U.S. has zero tolerance for "crimes" against the self, namely drugs. I have a friend who can't vote because he committed the "felony" of giving $20 worth of marijuana to an undercover cop -- there was no violence, and no sale ever actually took place. Did he deserve to lose his right to vote and do jail time? I think not.
Someone will get those region bits shifted and hack out an ISO in just a few hours. Of course, it may not be too much fun to pound out code with a gamepad with TV resolution -- maybe just a bit more convenient than than programming the TI graphing calculators. Still, it's a fun idea.
You're right, unfortunately. Politics will never go away, and even more unfortunately, JonKatz won't either.
Politics is no different than marketing or advertising -- the better your pitch, the better your sales. It really is true, especially in the technology industry, and it can make the difference between a failed and a successful company.
I'm not nostalgic -- it's just that most of the games that have been made over the past few years happen to suck.
The problem with most new games is the misapplication of technology. Instead of being creative, id Software has made a thousand different iterations of Wolfenstein. Instead of being creative, games are about buzzword compliant graphics running at high resolutions and color depths at imperceptibly high framerates using overclocked $600 video cards in $1000 overclocked systems with over $100 worth of cooling equipment that sounds like a 747 at takeoff.
Most of those games aren't very fun. Realtime strategy games all seemed the same by the time Starcraft came out, and it was a good genre that wasn't demanding of the highest spec machine possible.. Let's see some NEW ideas, dammit!
IMO, Gran Tourismo is a great innovation (it's not a dirty word) of Pole Position. For one thing, the object of the game isn't to speed ahead and make twitch reactions to rapidly approaching turns. When you get halfway off the track, you don't blow up -- you slow down.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater is a million times better than 720 or Skate or Die. The most important difference is that THPS doesn't have shitty play control.
Tetris will always be good. Every version of Super Mario Brothers has sucked (except Super Mario World), and THE ORIGINAL ZELDA WAS THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME.
Games *should* be better now, but what keeps happening is that we use the technology to make an "even cooler" version of what has already been done.
Mmm, what wonderful days these are when I can pay less for RAM with twice as many megabytes as I could for my first hard drive... when it's cheaper to buy an entire motherboard with eight megs of *cache* than it was to buy eight megs of RAM.
Without any additional RAM, you could play a MEAN game of DOOM with that thing. You could even run Windows 3.11 with Word and Excel open AT THE SAME TIME...
No shit -- at least for something like this. All the top rated comments (the "winners") will have comment ID's in the first 50% of the total comment count.
Putting recent events aside, Intel is still offering the best systems for just about anyone on the market. As I and several other hardware sites have said, there likely won't be anything quite as good as the Intel BX chipset for a long time.
If I was a system vendor, I'd probably stop selling computers in PA if the law went through. Like most computer companies, I would make sure the customer had working kit, but I would not bend over backwards to do it. Nobody replaces hundreds of dollars of equipment just because you say "it's broken", and when you have a problem, you ARE going to need to spend some time waiting for an analyst -- you're waiting for a SKILLED person, and there aren't a lot of them, especially for the coin that a system vendor can pay.
If the Pennsylvania legislature had any idea what goes on at the average tech support hotline, they'd change their minds really fast. It's challenging enough to deal with lusers without having the law involved.
As long as there was parity in features and software support, nobody would care about origin of their music files. FWIW, I would take free music if it came out of my ass. Nobody cares about the format, either. When on uses Windows, there are almost too many options when downloading video: should I download the RealVideo/QuickTime/Windows Media/AVI/MPEG format?
I think the real question is whether the format will get an appealing name. Ogg Vorbis? It does not sound nearly as good as "MP3", which rhymes with "MTV", and BOTH just happen to mean "music" (less so with the latter). The only cool expression I can think of for OV is "ogg hunt". With Napster, et al that term should not matter.
To extend on that idea -- should some other format replace MP3, will the world ever completely drop the term? Musicians regularly release new "albums" or "records" without pressing a single platter of vinyl. People still use DSL and ISDN "modems". I think it fair to say that MP3 will be around in some form or another, if only by name, for a long time.
it would be a TiVo. I can see myself recording TV shows at home, then streaming them to myself at work. I really hate the fact that I never get home in time to catch The Simpsons.
I miss being able to access iCraveTV, but the ability to pick and choose anything from my local cable provider would be even better!
If architecture does not matter, you are better off with Alpha and G4 processors.
If you need x86 processors for scientific applications, the Athlon will crush anything.
I have an Athlon 500 -- very unoffically, it rates at ~625 MFLOP. If it scaled perfectly, export restrictions would kick in at ~1.6 GHz.
Cyrix (ahem) Via processors should not be any threat, and seeing how sample > 1 GHz processors have started trickling out of Intel and AMD fabs, those restrictions will have to go away... quickly.
Are Intel and AMD lobbying for a change to the law yet? If not, they better get started -- government does not work nearly as fast as modern PC processors...
Enigma machine? SSL? Bah. Just you wait until my patents for ROT-13 encryption clears the U.S. patent board. Nobody will be able to tell a dirty joke on USENET without paying me a royalty, and I plan to wring it out of them, just like Unisys.
I dunno -- I have a Timex DataLink watch, and it really kicks ass. It stores phone numbers, appointments, and anniversaries that can be configured to give audible and visual reminders!
Despite having a "Microsoft Windows Compatible" logo on it, my original watch managed not to crash until it accidentally flew a couple dozen yards in front of me, then found the side of a cliff. Spare us the "Windows crashes all the time, Linux does not" mantra, too. The Data Link is Windows only, and in the two years I have been using NT4 and W2K, my rig has been rock stable.
Anyway, there are people like ME are interested in wristwatch computers. We don't want the bulk and maintenance of Palms, not to mention their expense. Maybe Linux is not doing anything spectacular on a wrist watch right now, but down the road, I think it would be very intersting to have a watch with retinal projection and virtual keyboard capabilities. It would certainly beat using Grafitti.
There are simply not enough things that come in boxes. Just think how shameful it is for all that fruit to be sitting out there naked in the produce section at the grocery store...
The point I was making is that stiffer punishment generally doesn't have any effect on the frequency of crime. Personally, I'm neither in favor of nor against the death penalty.
How about making execution the penalty for IP piracy? Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty back in the 70's, has a single murder been committed?
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So the question is... are there any good free compilers for Linux? ;)
There is a difference between what is wrong and what is illegal, and xversely (no clue if this is inverse or converse), a difference between what is legal and what is right. The social contract is based on right and wrong, not on law, and IMO, there is nothing wrong with the sale and use of recreational drugs, from chocolate to crack. None of them are nearly as dangerous as antibiotics. With each prescription, we inch just a little closer to the bug that will kill people by the millions, yet we continue to focus on drugs that people largely enjoy, and generally dull more suffering than any they _may_ create.
As for the other half of our prison population, I still don't see why they can't vote. Exclusion from society doesn't appear to be any more effective than inclusion, so what difference does it make?
Besides, most of the American social degenerates aren't behind bars -- take a look at who ran for office!
Ouch, that was some really poor writing. Did I really post that? What time is it? Naw, it can't be! Bah, the statements are there, they just look like crap. Sheesh, I do too! Maybe this election coverage is just lulling me to...
Try holding the power button down for a few seconds, BTW. If Linux had decent/any(?) ACPI support, it would behave the same way. I question why you would want to do that to ANY operating system, but to each his own. I reckon you would fare much better with your own components as well -- even without the chassis cover, I rarely hear the 30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP in my PII, and it also happens to be one of the fastest IDE drives currently available...
And what's so wrong about felons being able to vote? This whole subject would be pointless if the U.S. had an incarceration rate up there with the former Soviet Union.
Of course, the Soviets had zero tolerance for "crimes" against the Communist party, while the U.S. has zero tolerance for "crimes" against the self, namely drugs. I have a friend who can't vote because he committed the "felony" of giving $20 worth of marijuana to an undercover cop -- there was no violence, and no sale ever actually took place. Did he deserve to lose his right to vote and do jail time? I think not.
Someone will get those region bits shifted and hack out an ISO in just a few hours. Of course, it may not be too much fun to pound out code with a gamepad with TV resolution -- maybe just a bit more convenient than than programming the TI graphing calculators. Still, it's a fun idea.
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You're right, unfortunately. Politics will never go away, and even more unfortunately, JonKatz won't either.
Politics is no different than marketing or advertising -- the better your pitch, the better your sales. It really is true, especially in the technology industry, and it can make the difference between a failed and a successful company.
The problem with most new games is the misapplication of technology. Instead of being creative, id Software has made a thousand different iterations of Wolfenstein. Instead of being creative, games are about buzzword compliant graphics running at high resolutions and color depths at imperceptibly high framerates using overclocked $600 video cards in $1000 overclocked systems with over $100 worth of cooling equipment that sounds like a 747 at takeoff.
Most of those games aren't very fun. Realtime strategy games all seemed the same by the time Starcraft came out, and it was a good genre that wasn't demanding of the highest spec machine possible.. Let's see some NEW ideas, dammit!
IMO, Gran Tourismo is a great innovation (it's not a dirty word) of Pole Position. For one thing, the object of the game isn't to speed ahead and make twitch reactions to rapidly approaching turns. When you get halfway off the track, you don't blow up -- you slow down.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater is a million times better than 720 or Skate or Die. The most important difference is that THPS doesn't have shitty play control.
Tetris will always be good. Every version of Super Mario Brothers has sucked (except Super Mario World), and THE ORIGINAL ZELDA WAS THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME.
Games *should* be better now, but what keeps happening is that we use the technology to make an "even cooler" version of what has already been done.
Mmm, what wonderful days these are when I can pay less for RAM with twice as many megabytes as I could for my first hard drive... when it's cheaper to buy an entire motherboard with eight megs of *cache* than it was to buy eight megs of RAM.
Without any additional RAM, you could play a MEAN game of DOOM with that thing. You could even run Windows 3.11 with Word and Excel open AT THE SAME TIME...
11 comments got socres of 5. In chronological order, they are 12, 17, 26, 38, 48, 55, 62, 79, 94, 134, and 233.
73% of the most highly moderated comments were in the first 10% of replies. 'nuff said.
No shit -- at least for something like this. All the top rated comments (the "winners") will have comment ID's in the first 50% of the total comment count.
Putting recent events aside, Intel is still offering the best systems for just about anyone on the market. As I and several other hardware sites have said, there likely won't be anything quite as good as the Intel BX chipset for a long time.
PLEASE NO!!!
If I was a system vendor, I'd probably stop selling computers in PA if the law went through. Like most computer companies, I would make sure the customer had working kit, but I would not bend over backwards to do it. Nobody replaces hundreds of dollars of equipment just because you say "it's broken", and when you have a problem, you ARE going to need to spend some time waiting for an analyst -- you're waiting for a SKILLED person, and there aren't a lot of them, especially for the coin that a system vendor can pay.
If the Pennsylvania legislature had any idea what goes on at the average tech support hotline, they'd change their minds really fast. It's challenging enough to deal with lusers without having the law involved.
Now can someone figure out a way to make it so that CueCat isn't so god damn fugly?
As long as there was parity in features and software support, nobody would care about origin of their music files. FWIW, I would take free music if it came out of my ass. Nobody cares about the format, either. When on uses Windows, there are almost too many options when downloading video: should I download the RealVideo/QuickTime/Windows Media/AVI/MPEG format?
I think the real question is whether the format will get an appealing name. Ogg Vorbis? It does not sound nearly as good as "MP3", which rhymes with "MTV", and BOTH just happen to mean "music" (less so with the latter). The only cool expression I can think of for OV is "ogg hunt". With Napster, et al that term should not matter.
To extend on that idea -- should some other format replace MP3, will the world ever completely drop the term? Musicians regularly release new "albums" or "records" without pressing a single platter of vinyl. People still use DSL and ISDN "modems". I think it fair to say that MP3 will be around in some form or another, if only by name, for a long time.
Try http://slashdot.org/articles/ 00/02/02/1044207.shtml#1.
I miss being able to access iCraveTV, but the ability to pick and choose anything from my local cable provider would be even better!
If you need x86 processors for scientific applications, the Athlon will crush anything.
I have an Athlon 500 -- very unoffically, it rates at ~625 MFLOP. If it scaled perfectly, export restrictions would kick in at ~1.6 GHz.
Cyrix (ahem) Via processors should not be any threat, and seeing how sample > 1 GHz processors have started trickling out of Intel and AMD fabs, those restrictions will have to go away... quickly.
Are Intel and AMD lobbying for a change to the law yet? If not, they better get started -- government does not work nearly as fast as modern PC processors...
Enigma machine? SSL? Bah. Just you wait until my patents for ROT-13 encryption clears the U.S. patent board. Nobody will be able to tell a dirty joke on USENET without paying me a royalty, and I plan to wring it out of them, just like Unisys.
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Despite having a "Microsoft Windows Compatible" logo on it, my original watch managed not to crash until it accidentally flew a couple dozen yards in front of me, then found the side of a cliff. Spare us the "Windows crashes all the time, Linux does not" mantra, too. The Data Link is Windows only, and in the two years I have been using NT4 and W2K, my rig has been rock stable.
Anyway, there are people like ME are interested in wristwatch computers. We don't want the bulk and maintenance of Palms, not to mention their expense. Maybe Linux is not doing anything spectacular on a wrist watch right now, but down the road, I think it would be very intersting to have a watch with retinal projection and virtual keyboard capabilities. It would certainly beat using Grafitti.
Oh wait -- does anyone remember this Linux server in a box? You also might be able to get Linux in a box at this site.
Be sure to check out:
There are simply not enough things that come in boxes. Just think how shameful it is for all that fruit to be sitting out there naked in the produce section at the grocery store...
The point I was making is that stiffer punishment generally doesn't have any effect on the frequency of crime. Personally, I'm neither in favor of nor against the death penalty.
How about making execution the penalty for IP piracy? Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty back in the 70's, has a single murder been committed?