When Delphi was still just a codename, Borland set out to eliminate pointers from the language, and they were about 99.5% effective. It's easy to forget they're there...
I know C/C++ and Delphi developers. The former complain about their language and their tools, while the Delphi folks just complain about occasional instability with the IDE...
IIRC, NVIDIA has licenses that do not allow them to open up all the specs of their hardware. I'm sure they would love to open everything up if they could -- they could shift development efforts out of the house and score PR points with the Linux community. A while back,/. linked to a set of gaming benchmarks showing NVIDIA was well ahead of the pack in terms of X/OpenGL performance, including 3dfx which claims to be supportive of OSS.
I think NVIDIA is committed to supporting OSS, but is simply unable to practice it themselves.
depends on whether you even have one -- I have a wheel:). If you do, most mouse drivers let you choose the behavior. If you want it to be a double click, it will be. If you want it as another left mouse button, it will be, etc., etc...
Office, admin, and even coding kinds of work can be done with VNC without a problem. That should satisfy your needs, should it not? I really hope you aren't trying to play games using a remote X display...
Food is not politics, and windowing is not a protocol, yet we have vegans and X.
IMO, tools like VNC obsoleted the "power" of X ages ago. 99% of the time, the X client and server are on the same system. The overhead is wasteful, and the terminology annoyingly confusing for newbies. I'm sure there would be significant performance and appearance improvements in GUI Un*x applications, especially games, if X were replaced with a standalone graphical system.
People use IE because they like it. I have not seen one instance where it has made an unbearable rendition of a page, while the tiny bit of Mozilla I have used has sometimes looked nasty. Of course, IE is smoother, more powerful, and more stable than Mozilla, or any other browser I have used for that matter. If standards compliance means using a striped-sky blue browser with awkward button positions, or a $30 browser with an (ugh) MDI interface, forget it.
This is a case where people are going to take what Microsoft gives them, regardless of its imperfections. Like I said before, it's the most pleasant to use, and doesn't render your page as garbage. It may not be "as intended", but it will be close. If precise page layout and formatting are so absolutely important, why not use PDF?
Katz is a memeber of the/. staff. He writes AND posts his own material. Need proof? Look at this.
I should add that this is not the first time the Katz filter has been circumvented, either. It has been done at least three times in the nine months or so that I have had the Katz filter on.
Netscape for Windows doesn't look like Motif, but it has the same design constraints, particularly its inflexible toolbar. Of course, one could argue that if the IE toolbar was truly flexible, you'd be able to place it in any corner (or even just the bottom, like Opera) of the screen, just like Office toolbars, but Netscape has always been one worse than what M$ offered in that department...
It is a good idea to exploit OS specific features and nuances. Netscape and Mozilla aren't unpopular with Windows users just because they already have IE, it's because they're constrained to a fairly cross-platform interface design. In the case of Navigator, it's limited to the crappy Motif toolkit, and Mozilla is limited by its own -- most users have no desire to hack my own XUL to make the browser look and feel like they want it to.
Platform specificity is good -- would you write a Windows app and make Alt the primary modifier key? Would you write a Mac application and make Control the modifier key? Well, only if you didn't want people to use the program and/or be happy with you.
Don't underdo it, and don't overdo it. Business logic is pretty portable, and presentation logic is cake -- if you're integrating the two, you're doing it wrong.
Offtopic? Yes. Hilarious? Yes. True? Yes. IIRC, I heard him say this at the the Massachusetts Workers' (Communist) Party convention that year.
With that off my chest... We all say stupid shit, especially when we're drunk, and RMS shouldn't be any exception. I wouldn't be surprised if he did say that. Drinking is an important part of the hacker/geek culture -- RMS is not a particularly friendly guy when he's sober, and from the experience of others and myself, code is better and comes faster with a few beers in your belly.
It's probably much easier to do than this old story. What do those phone guys do, anyway?
I have a friend who recently got DSL through NorthPoint. The USWest guy came out, climbed the pole, came down, scratched his head a few times, then repeated the process a few more times. He seemed really pessimistic about getting an SDSL setup in a fairly old home with elderly telco equipment, but on his second visit, he managed to get everything perfect. Two wires ran from from the pole to his house, and were bolted into a box on the side of his home. He opened the thing up, told him "you didn't see this", then unhooked one wire and connected it to the other bolt! All of a sudden, he had 416kb DSL 17k feet from the CO instead of a 24kbps modem connection...
In some cases, it sure seems like the open source ends don't justify the means. Have you noticed the increasing number of exploits in the Slash engine since it went up on Sourceforge?
When you're collecting critical data, is it wiser to keep the source to yourself?
I picked this up in a separate thread, but I think it bears repeating here:
You really disgust me. There are trolls and there are spammers, then there are even lower life forms such as magenta syringe and Penis Bird Guy, but you make them look like respectable members of the/. community.
Without a doubt, you are the least likable user/. has ever seen. You post inflammatory comments and drop links to "white power" websites. You're not a troll -- trolls are intelligent, enlightened pranksters. You are simply an ignorant jackass.
Even the classic Athlons could be set to the "proper" multiplier. The only catch was that you had to open the CPU casing and attach a goofy widget. You can see a review of Athlon GoldFinger devices (GFD) here, or if you're a DIY kind of person, the specs are here.
Yeah, I suppose -- "wireless" is as much a misnomer because there are wires in it. I suppose we'll never get rid of inaccurate/outdated terms like that and "DSL modem".
Then again, there may be hope. Non-POTS phones have been renamed by marketers time and time again -- there was "car phone", which Motorola made inaccurate, then the "cellular phone", which was a pain to pronouce, so marketers shortened it to "cell phone" instead.
There is some hope, though. Once the technology is even more widely adopted (probably in the next five years), it won't even matter anymore -- "phone" will be synonymous with "cell phone".
Actually, the most irritating thing I find about wireless phones (come on folks, lots of them aren't technically CELL anymore) are those vanity rings. It's incredibly annoying to hear La Cucaracha, Fur Elise, Ode to Joy and any number of other songs blaring when someone has an incoming call. I realize that it makes things easier in crowds where there may be many people with wireless phones, but they could at least use a different ring instead of obnoxiously long and high pitched snippets from a song...
My Cybex SV-4 is a little bit older, and it doesn't have the logo. All the same, it works fine. They promised it would work with Linux anyway -- their word is a lot more reassuring than that of an unknown "independent" lab.
FWIW, hardware certification for Linux is a joke. Novell and Micros~1 have cert labs, and they can guarantee the results because they also control the operating system. Linux is not centralized this way.
It is up to the vendor themself to claim a product Linux compatible -- this involves little more than releasing a basic driver under a free license, then making the hardware documentation freely available. I'm not sure why companies like nVidia find this to be such a chore...
I have had bad experience trying to get to know Real World people online
Ahh, see -- that's where the problem is... people dumb enough to watch MTV and think that they want to be on The Real World are just plain lame, and the people who actually take interest in it are even worse.
What happened to eMpTyV? Did they go to hell, or were my "lame" parents right all along about it?
If you look in the right place instead of trusting the also by sengan link, a different picture will be painted. Sengan has been around for ages -- with your relatively low userid, you should know that.
I live in the Midwest, and I use public transit to get to work. With virtually no variation, the bus hauls no more than four people in a diesel powered bus are hauled from from central Minneapolis to a middle ring suburb for the measly sum of $2 (including transfer). It wastes fuel and taxpayer money, not to mention the fact that I spend two hours doing this every day. This is an exception to the rule of course, but my point is that public transit is far from a panacea.
I think that more people should be using public transit, but it is only an intermediate step that doesn't get to the root of the problem. People need to get from Point A to Point B. We can make a more efficient way for them to do it, but we should also be working to shorten that distance and/or eliminate some of the necessity in the first place.
A better name could have been chosen, don'cha think?
Well, I figured I'd follow on your reply, since it was more detailed than the other. This thing has completely passed by me, and now I have to catch up. Is there anything other than the slashdotted link above? Search engines seem to be indifferent to Divx vis a vis DivX
I will be hosting a bachelor(ette?) party for my friend who is to be married in a lesbian wedding. Having gone through the normal bachelor party for my male (not necessarily more masculine) friends, I feel obligated to provide some wild pornographic action for her and her girlfriends.
Do lesbians go for strip clubs with nude women dancers, or would renting a girl-on-girl(s) porno flick be more appropriate?
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When Delphi was still just a codename, Borland set out to eliminate pointers from the language, and they were about 99.5% effective. It's easy to forget they're there...
I know C/C++ and Delphi developers. The former complain about their language and their tools, while the Delphi folks just complain about occasional instability with the IDE...
While it would be a Good Thing© for the end user to have NVIDIA to open their specs, it would very much be a Bad Thing© for them as a company.
IIRC, NVIDIA has licenses that do not allow them to open up all the specs of their hardware. I'm sure they would love to open everything up if they could -- they could shift development efforts out of the house and score PR points with the Linux community. A while back, /. linked to a set of gaming benchmarks showing NVIDIA was well ahead of the pack in terms of X/OpenGL performance, including 3dfx which claims to be supportive of OSS.
I think NVIDIA is committed to supporting OSS, but is simply unable to practice it themselves.
depends on whether you even have one -- I have a wheel :). If you do, most mouse drivers let you choose the behavior. If you want it to be a double click, it will be. If you want it as another left mouse button, it will be, etc., etc...
Office, admin, and even coding kinds of work can be done with VNC without a problem. That should satisfy your needs, should it not? I really hope you aren't trying to play games using a remote X display...
Food is not politics, and windowing is not a protocol, yet we have vegans and X.
IMO, tools like VNC obsoleted the "power" of X ages ago. 99% of the time, the X client and server are on the same system. The overhead is wasteful, and the terminology annoyingly confusing for newbies. I'm sure there would be significant performance and appearance improvements in GUI Un*x applications, especially games, if X were replaced with a standalone graphical system.
Office 2000 is SDI...
This is a case where people are going to take what Microsoft gives them, regardless of its imperfections. Like I said before, it's the most pleasant to use, and doesn't render your page as garbage. It may not be "as intended", but it will be close. If precise page layout and formatting are so absolutely important, why not use PDF?
For lack of a better word, that was a mighty fine zinger... I think they misnamed it, though. it should be: /usr/bin/cobol
rm
(instead of)
RM/COBOL
Bah, that book review wasn't going anywhere. He could have waited. I'm sure he's learned that nobody likes trojan articles by now...
I should add that this is not the first time the Katz filter has been circumvented, either. It has been done at least three times in the nine months or so that I have had the Katz filter on.
Netscape for Windows doesn't look like Motif, but it has the same design constraints, particularly its inflexible toolbar. Of course, one could argue that if the IE toolbar was truly flexible, you'd be able to place it in any corner (or even just the bottom, like Opera) of the screen, just like Office toolbars, but Netscape has always been one worse than what M$ offered in that department...
It is a good idea to exploit OS specific features and nuances. Netscape and Mozilla aren't unpopular with Windows users just because they already have IE, it's because they're constrained to a fairly cross-platform interface design. In the case of Navigator, it's limited to the crappy Motif toolkit, and Mozilla is limited by its own -- most users have no desire to hack my own XUL to make the browser look and feel like they want it to.
Platform specificity is good -- would you write a Windows app and make Alt the primary modifier key? Would you write a Mac application and make Control the modifier key? Well, only if you didn't want people to use the program and/or be happy with you.
Don't underdo it, and don't overdo it. Business logic is pretty portable, and presentation logic is cake -- if you're integrating the two, you're doing it wrong.
With that off my chest... We all say stupid shit, especially when we're drunk, and RMS shouldn't be any exception. I wouldn't be surprised if he did say that. Drinking is an important part of the hacker/geek culture -- RMS is not a particularly friendly guy when he's sober, and from the experience of others and myself, code is better and comes faster with a few beers in your belly.
I have a friend who recently got DSL through NorthPoint. The USWest guy came out, climbed the pole, came down, scratched his head a few times, then repeated the process a few more times. He seemed really pessimistic about getting an SDSL setup in a fairly old home with elderly telco equipment, but on his second visit, he managed to get everything perfect. Two wires ran from from the pole to his house, and were bolted into a box on the side of his home. He opened the thing up, told him "you didn't see this", then unhooked one wire and connected it to the other bolt! All of a sudden, he had 416kb DSL 17k feet from the CO instead of a 24kbps modem connection...
What do those guys do all day???
In some cases, it sure seems like the open source ends don't justify the means. Have you noticed the increasing number of exploits in the Slash engine since it went up on Sourceforge?
When you're collecting critical data, is it wiser to keep the source to yourself?
You really disgust me. There are trolls and there are spammers, then there are even lower life forms such as magenta syringe and Penis Bird Guy, but you make them look like respectable members of the /. community.
Without a doubt, you are the least likable user /. has ever seen. You post inflammatory comments and drop links to "white power" websites. You're not a troll -- trolls are intelligent, enlightened pranksters. You are simply an ignorant jackass.
-- Anonymous Enemy
Even the classic Athlons could be set to the "proper" multiplier. The only catch was that you had to open the CPU casing and attach a goofy widget. You can see a review of Athlon GoldFinger devices (GFD) here, or if you're a DIY kind of person, the specs are here.
Ars Technica has a feature on this subject entitled: `Michelangelo Goes Digital'
Then again, there may be hope. Non-POTS phones have been renamed by marketers time and time again -- there was "car phone", which Motorola made inaccurate, then the "cellular phone", which was a pain to pronouce, so marketers shortened it to "cell phone" instead.
There is some hope, though. Once the technology is even more widely adopted (probably in the next five years), it won't even matter anymore -- "phone" will be synonymous with "cell phone".
Actually, the most irritating thing I find about wireless phones (come on folks, lots of them aren't technically CELL anymore) are those vanity rings. It's incredibly annoying to hear La Cucaracha, Fur Elise, Ode to Joy and any number of other songs blaring when someone has an incoming call. I realize that it makes things easier in crowds where there may be many people with wireless phones, but they could at least use a different ring instead of obnoxiously long and high pitched snippets from a song...
My Cybex SV-4 is a little bit older, and it doesn't have the logo. All the same, it works fine. They promised it would work with Linux anyway -- their word is a lot more reassuring than that of an unknown "independent" lab.
FWIW, hardware certification for Linux is a joke. Novell and Micros~1 have cert labs, and they can guarantee the results because they also control the operating system. Linux is not centralized this way.
It is up to the vendor themself to claim a product Linux compatible -- this involves little more than releasing a basic driver under a free license, then making the hardware documentation freely available. I'm not sure why companies like nVidia find this to be such a chore...
Ahh, see -- that's where the problem is... people dumb enough to watch MTV and think that they want to be on The Real World are just plain lame, and the people who actually take interest in it are even worse.
What happened to eMpTyV? Did they go to hell, or were my "lame" parents right all along about it?
I live in the Midwest, and I use public transit to get to work. With virtually no variation, the bus hauls no more than four people in a diesel powered bus are hauled from from central Minneapolis to a middle ring suburb for the measly sum of $2 (including transfer). It wastes fuel and taxpayer money, not to mention the fact that I spend two hours doing this every day. This is an exception to the rule of course, but my point is that public transit is far from a panacea.
I think that more people should be using public transit, but it is only an intermediate step that doesn't get to the root of the problem. People need to get from Point A to Point B. We can make a more efficient way for them to do it, but we should also be working to shorten that distance and/or eliminate some of the necessity in the first place.
A better name could have been chosen, don'cha think?
Well, I figured I'd follow on your reply, since it was more detailed than the other. This thing has completely passed by me, and now I have to catch up. Is there anything other than the slashdotted link above? Search engines seem to be indifferent to Divx vis a vis DivX
P.S.: I get it now. DivX, as in DirectX.
I will be hosting a bachelor(ette?) party for my friend who is to be married in a lesbian wedding. Having gone through the normal bachelor party for my male (not necessarily more masculine) friends, I feel obligated to provide some wild pornographic action for her and her girlfriends.
Do lesbians go for strip clubs with nude women dancers, or would renting a girl-on-girl(s) porno flick be more appropriate?
Please advise,
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