X is slower in terms of putting pixels onto screen than any other modern desktop windowing system (i.e. Windows, Mac OS X, etc.). As in I can see Mozilla redrawing when I drag a window, even with a blazing processor, and blazing graphics card.
I can't see that at all (running XFree4, windowmaker-0.80, FreeBSD, Matrox G400, Athlon 1GHz, hardly blazing). I suggest you revisit your XFree settings, as I have a hunch you're not getting 2d acceleration.
...THERE's a weakness of X. Getting it to support hardware fully is a pain. However, this can be remedied by smarter install tools. Get cracking!:)
Of course he does. In the same manner that Linus deserves the "honorary" Doctorate he was given in CS. Anybody wanna argue that Linus isn't a PHD level programmer?
I cannot rightly understand the confusion of ideas which this sentence evinces. Ph.D. degrees are not measures of competence; they are awarded for advancing the state of the art. I am not sure if Linux, as a reimplementation of an existing system, qualifies as academic research worthy of a Ph.D. The sheer number of CS professors who cannot code surely indicates that "Ph.D. level programmer" is a meaningless statement.
This is not to say that those professors are unqualified...only that degrees are not measures of programming skills.
...except generally FreeBSD users compile their own software using the ports tree. Note, too, that not *everything* goes in/usr/local -- just the things you'd expect (java, console-based apps, etc). Other things end up in/usr/X11R6 under FreeBSD.
Not really, since in general Linux distributions use a more-or-less unmodified Linux kernel. There is no working "BSD" kernel, and even if there were, the FreeBSD project's kernel will naturally be radically different from it, since BSD ran on now-defunct hardware. In short, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD are not "distributions" of BSD since they all write their own kernels and their own userlands to make use of these kernels. They are all decidely "BSD-ish," but we don't call Ultrix a distribution of SysV, do we?
Ports is nice if you're installing a program from scratch and leaving it, but if you update your ports collection, there's no method to update a single package! You need to uninstall every package that depends on the one you're trying to upgrade by hand, then install all of them AGAIN through ports.
I used to think this, too, but apparently within the past couple of years it has become completely untrue. There is a really nifty utility for FreeBSD called portupgrade which does exactly what you're complaining about. Usage is "portupgrade [portname]". It settles dependencies, yadda, yadda, yadda. The biggest issue I had when trying it out was my earlier brain-dead upgrading of ports had left my package database inconsistent. Luckily there are utilities that help you fix that too.
Abysmal support? At best, I tinker too, but I've never had an issue with the native JDK1.3.1 for FreeBSD. It runs Forte, Limewire, etc. pretty well (can't vouch for more serious apps). One issue is that there is no native plugin for Mozilla. Maybe that's your beef? If so, I heartily agree.
RTF website! (In this case, the Halo FAQ at halo.bungie.org. The Halo is not a "Ringworld" in Niven's sense (i.e. a ring encircling a sun, with a diameter equivalent to a planet's orbit). It is instead a planet-like object in the shape of a ring, "10,000 kilometers across."
The problem is we've had too many multi-million-dollar judgments against corporations because some loon spilled coffee on her lap or because some idiot couldn't read the Surgeon General's Warning. These are cases where the individuals themselves were the ones who should have been held accountable, but the corporations ended up getting the blame.
This is a common misconception, and I think that the "Insightful" moderation needs a little reality check. Ms. Liebeck (the McDonald's coffee plaintiff) was hospitalized for eight days because of the coffee's temperature. She did not seek a multimillion dollar sentiment from the outset -- she merely wanted compensation for her medical bills. From http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/legalmyths/ coffee.html:
Before a suit was ever filed, Liebeck informed McDonald's about her injuries and asked for compensation for her medical bills, which totaled almost $11,000. McDonald's countered with a ludicrously low $800 offer...McDonald's refused all attempts to settle the case.
Finally, the jury's punitive award of 2.7 million dollars was chosen to reflect two days' worth of coffee sales for Mcdonald's.
The "McDonald's Coffee" suit is a particularly poor example for anyone wishing to blame "individuals" for corporate ass-covering and buyouts of government.
Apparently Mr. Tyrell was channeling the spirit of masters of centuries before. From the Blade Runner FAQ:
10. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CHESS GAME?
The chess game between Tyrell and Sebastian uses the conclusion of a game
played between Anderssen and Kieseritzky, in London in 1851. It is considered
one of the most brilliant games ever played, and is universally known as "The
Immortal Game".
The Immortal Game, in algebraic notation, was as follows:
Back to the origional discussion. People by their very nature try to maximize their profit (mentally and financially) by chosing the best use of their time, effort and property.
And when the best use of a company's time, effort, and property is to condition minds to be more easily swayed?
"Once you define it you will find that it is nothing new. If you want someone to pay attention you have to provide them with a VALUE. Something that a person would get for their attention."
Or you could leverage the compulsive power of the state, as corporations have done with forced schooling. Children are now literally captive audiences for a 12-minute commercial called Channel One. Capitalism has wrought this travesty.
This is really nothing new. It seems apparent to me that for the past 100 years, capitalist[1] interests have been intent on capturing and monopolizing the attention of the general public. They don't need an "information society" to get it done, either, though it does make things much easier. As John Taylor Gatto, former NY State Teacher of the Year,
said:
The children I teach have almost no curiosity and what they do have is transitory; they cannot concentrate for very long, even on things they choose to do. Can you see a connection between the bells ringing again and again to change classes and this phenomenon of evanescent attention?
...
-- Out of 168 hours in each week my children sleep 56. That leaves them 112 hours a week out of which to fashion a self.
-- My children watch 55 hours of television a week according to recent reports. That leaves them 57 hours a week in which to grow up.
-- My children attend school 30 hours a week, use about 6 hours getting ready, going and coming home, and spend an average of 7 hours a week in homework -- a total of 45 hours. During that time they are under constant surveillance, have no private time or private space, and are disciplined if they try to assert individuality in the use of time or space. That leaves 12 hours a week out of which to create a unique consciousness. Of course, my kids eat, and that takes some time--not much because they've lost the tradition of family dining, but if we allot 3 hours a week to evening meals we arrive at a net amount of private time for each child of 9 hours.
And we wonder why so many people have "mental illness."
[1] I'm not a raving Communist or anything, I just call 'em how I see 'em. Capitalism by its nature will seek maximum profits. What better way to maximize profits than brainwashing children into buying your product?
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Suppose that [Your Favorite Totalitarian Regime] is perpetrating [some awful atrocity]. Would extremist tactics in order to bring attention to such abuses be justified? What is the difference, then, between the hypothetical situation and this one? Keep in mind that "environmentalist wackos" do in fact believe that an atrocity is being committed here.
Regarding the burning of the dealership, the relatively benign emissions from such a blaze are insignificant compared to the environmental damage caused by supplying those SUVs with enough gas to move them a few hundred miles.
Finally, I think you should brush up on virtue ethics, as it seems to me that this ethical system can justify violent acts of this nature.
It can happen again. In SimEarth, robots evolve when atomic weapons are used on a Nanotech-age city. They do tend to be quite rapacious, having no climate in which they do not thrive.
I believe the point is that robots survive the destruction of the city, and, without their organic masters to rein them in, spread unchecked, much to the detriment of any pre-existing life forms. So yes, A.I. does incorporate this sci-fi chestnut.
That's not precisely true -- merely assessing each as a square along the playing board doesn't factor the various non-dice related influences on board position. The odds of landing on Boardwalk are of course much greater (according to one analysis, Boardwalk is the 18th-most-landed upon property, whereas Park Place is 33rd.
Abuse was by Crack dot Com, distributed for the Mac by Bungie. There is an x86 version (I'm fairly sure it came first.) The FAQ says that Crack dot Com was partially owned by Dave Taylor, formerly of iD. Aside from the Mac and PC versions, Abuse was also apparently ported to BeOS and Acorn. Apparently the PC version is no longer sold. I'm also fairly sure that Crack dot Com is also quite defunct.
Abuse was a damn cool 2d platform shooter though -- you controlled your character with the arrow keys, and your aim and weapon firing with the mouse. A pity it came out right when Quake (or was it Quake II) was hitting it big. For information on everything Abuse-related, check out http://www.net-mage.com/nkrell/abuse/.
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I can't see that at all (running XFree4, windowmaker-0.80, FreeBSD, Matrox G400, Athlon 1GHz, hardly blazing). I suggest you revisit your XFree settings, as I have a hunch you're not getting 2d acceleration.
...THERE's a weakness of X. Getting it to support hardware fully is a pain. However, this can be remedied by smarter install tools. Get cracking! :)
One of THE SPECS is that some people don't appreciate eyestrain.
I cannot rightly understand the confusion of ideas which this sentence evinces. Ph.D. degrees are not measures of competence; they are awarded for advancing the state of the art. I am not sure if Linux, as a reimplementation of an existing system, qualifies as academic research worthy of a Ph.D. The sheer number of CS professors who cannot code surely indicates that "Ph.D. level programmer" is a meaningless statement.
This is not to say that those professors are unqualified...only that degrees are not measures of programming skills.
Too bad you can't buy something without paying for it! Thank you captain capitalism!
...except generally FreeBSD users compile their own software using the ports tree. Note, too, that not *everything* goes in /usr/local -- just the things you'd expect (java, console-based apps, etc). Other things end up in /usr/X11R6 under FreeBSD.
Abysmal support? At best, I tinker too, but I've never had an issue with the native JDK1.3.1 for FreeBSD. It runs Forte, Limewire, etc. pretty well (can't vouch for more serious apps). One issue is that there is no native plugin for Mozilla. Maybe that's your beef? If so, I heartily agree.
Why should we explain it when this and this do it so much better? Are you trolling, or can you educate yourself?
RTF website! (In this case, the Halo FAQ at halo.bungie.org. The Halo is not a "Ringworld" in Niven's sense (i.e. a ring encircling a sun, with a diameter equivalent to a planet's orbit). It is instead a planet-like object in the shape of a ring, "10,000 kilometers across."
And how many $2.56 checks do you have?
The golden rectangle ratio is ~1.618:1, which is 4.854:3. If that's close to 4:3, then pi=4.
"I love the Power Glove."
Now, if only I can keep my kid brother from trying to get to a huge dinosaur statue in California...
Hmmm...I guess this isn't the same as this Pirates...
This is a common misconception, and I think that the "Insightful" moderation needs a little reality check. Ms. Liebeck (the McDonald's coffee plaintiff) was hospitalized for eight days because of the coffee's temperature. She did not seek a multimillion dollar sentiment from the outset -- she merely wanted compensation for her medical bills. From http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/legalmyths/ coffee.html:
Finally, the jury's punitive award of 2.7 million dollars was chosen to reflect two days' worth of coffee sales for Mcdonald's.The "McDonald's Coffee" suit is a particularly poor example for anyone wishing to blame "individuals" for corporate ass-covering and buyouts of government.
And when the best use of a company's time, effort, and property is to condition minds to be more easily swayed?
Or you could leverage the compulsive power of the state, as corporations have done with forced schooling. Children are now literally captive audiences for a 12-minute commercial called Channel One. Capitalism has wrought this travesty.
This is really nothing new. It seems apparent to me that for the past 100 years, capitalist[1] interests have been intent on capturing and monopolizing the attention of the general public. They don't need an "information society" to get it done, either, though it does make things much easier. As John Taylor Gatto, former NY State Teacher of the Year, said:
And we wonder why so many people have "mental illness."
[1] I'm not a raving Communist or anything, I just call 'em how I see 'em. Capitalism by its nature will seek maximum profits. What better way to maximize profits than brainwashing children into buying your product?
Suppose that [Your Favorite Totalitarian Regime] is perpetrating [some awful atrocity]. Would extremist tactics in order to bring attention to such abuses be justified? What is the difference, then, between the hypothetical situation and this one? Keep in mind that "environmentalist wackos" do in fact believe that an atrocity is being committed here.
Regarding the burning of the dealership, the relatively benign emissions from such a blaze are insignificant compared to the environmental damage caused by supplying those SUVs with enough gas to move them a few hundred miles.
Finally, I think you should brush up on virtue ethics, as it seems to me that this ethical system can justify violent acts of this nature.
It only happened once.
It can happen again. In SimEarth, robots evolve when atomic weapons are used on a Nanotech-age city. They do tend to be quite rapacious, having no climate in which they do not thrive.
I believe the point is that robots survive the destruction of the city, and, without their organic masters to rein them in, spread unchecked, much to the detriment of any pre-existing life forms. So yes, A.I. does incorporate this sci-fi chestnut.
That's not precisely true -- merely assessing each as a square along the playing board doesn't factor the various non-dice related influences on board position. The odds of landing on Boardwalk are of course much greater (according to one analysis, Boardwalk is the 18th-most-landed upon property, whereas Park Place is 33rd.
For more detail, see http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopo ly.shtml.
Ack! No it's not. Vegans and vegetarians are very different breeds...though you are correct, "vegetable" does not lead to "vegens"
Abuse was by Crack dot Com, distributed for the Mac by Bungie. There is an x86 version (I'm fairly sure it came first.) The FAQ says that Crack dot Com was partially owned by Dave Taylor, formerly of iD. Aside from the Mac and PC versions, Abuse was also apparently ported to BeOS and Acorn. Apparently the PC version is no longer sold. I'm also fairly sure that Crack dot Com is also quite defunct.
Abuse was a damn cool 2d platform shooter though -- you controlled your character with the arrow keys, and your aim and weapon firing with the mouse. A pity it came out right when Quake (or was it Quake II) was hitting it big. For information on everything Abuse-related, check out http://www.net-mage.com/nkrell/abuse/.