I stopped using AltaVista once the load time for the front page got over a few seconds. Google has a nice, quick to load, clean interface. Last time I looked, AV was slow, covered in excess garbage and ads, and made searching take far longer than necessary. The last straw was when it started creating popups asking me if I wanted to go to the UK version.
RMS is no longer a big name, regardless of what he might wish. GNU has done loads of great work over the years, but sooner or later Stallman has to accept that he's not got the kernel. It's not his, and GNU won't be putting out Hurd. He's done a lot, but it's time for him to take a back seat.
Nah, that's what.pl is for. None of this huge vbs nonsense, *NIX vir(whatever) can be about sixty bytes big and actually *look* like an ASCII art picture of Anna Kournikova.
Hey, that's a thought... With all those perl loveletters around, how hard would it be to make one of them destructive?:)
I've not seen a suit fiddle with a presentation. I have, however, seen five hours (yes, 5) wasted by several teachers at my school in putting together a few crappy slides for an assembly. They could have made a better job of them by hand in a tenth of the time.
But now... I could, erm, improve the content. Say, replace the word 'Ethos' with something less buzzwords, and add a few more interesting graphics...
*must*... resist... urge... to put in goatse comment...
I've been running a pair as RAID-0 (yeah, I know...) for a couple of months, haven't had any major problems. The drives seem to seek to the inner track and back more often than my Seagate drive, but it's rarely a problem.
I've had problems with other drives before because of a power supply which was slightly too low voltage -- it seems a few drives are overly sensitive to minor voltage drops.
Hopefully some prudent arguments can be made to convince the W3C folks.
Maybe a big fat cheque in a brown envelope? If, as it appears, they're playing the money game, the only way to stop them will be to give them more money than anyone else.
Only way I can think of is to make popup windows named, and then use JavaScript to check that mypopup.images['myimage'].src (??? not used JS for ages) is what it should be...
Seen what you get with Delphi (and Kylix for that matter)? There's the nice cute GUI, sure, but you still get commandline compilers, resource builders, linkers and so on as separate apps. You can, of course, pipe and so on...
This gives you the best of both worlds -- use the GUI when you want to design interfaces, ignore the gui and just stick to the commandline tools when you want automation.
Borland's C++Builder also has separate commandline tools (and pretty primitive grep and make...) (which, incidentally, are free for download but not quite Free).
Far easier to put on glasses and make sure the lenses are partially mirrored on the outside. Just as effective, far less painful and doesn't stop you doing things like talking and eating...
What I'd really like would be to have a CPU in my arm. Not for real thought -- too complicated just now -- but for the odd maths test it'd be extremely useful...
Of course, it'd have to be something slow -- could you imagine a human with cooling fans stuck all over them?
Sure, a red splodge on the screen looks nice, but nothing beats a corpse which has been hacked in half and is full of bullets. It's the multiplayer thing -- it's soooooo much more satisfying to get realistic gibs than a few dots.
So even though games are playable on a z80 (yes, there is at least one 3d engine on a ti86 calculator), there isn't the same splat effect.
Gamers want fancy interfaces. I know someone who's a huge fan of Civ, Alpha Centauri et al., but when I introduced him to FreeCiv his first comment was "the interface sucks". This isn't someone who's computer illiterate, either.
It seems that people want something different when playing a game. They don't want just their standard operating system look, they want fullscreen fancy eyecandy, even when that's not the nicest option.
You can even see this in game editors -- AFAIK, WorldCraft is the only editor even close to the standard OS style...
Whether it's because the whole screen should look SciFi / Fantasy / Whatever, or simply because users want something different, game interfaces have to be different from usual programs.
Yes. From experience (review machines) I can tell you that a top of the range Athlon 1400 is considerably faster than a top of the range PIV 1800. It's similar to Apple's GigaFlop machines, they weren't that fast at all.
Not really. They're just deciding on the best operating system around, and for them it seems to be Linux.
Remember, part of the open source definition is that software must be for anyone, whether it's a pro-freedom organisation or a bunch of international terrorists.
If you were to start saying that "It's free, but only to people we like", you're becoming worse than that certain company. AFAIK, they'll sell to pretty much anyone...
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I stopped using AltaVista once the load time for the front page got over a few seconds. Google has a nice, quick to load, clean interface. Last time I looked, AV was slow, covered in excess garbage and ads, and made searching take far longer than necessary. The last straw was when it started creating popups asking me if I wanted to go to the UK version.
Nope. Decent sound-on-sound recording uses pretty large buffers to get around that sort of problem.
Okay, rough (dabs.com) UK prices follow...
256MBytes PC2100 DDR etc etc: £27.50
27.50 / 256 = about 10p per MByte
Seagate Barracuda 80GBytes: £164.50
164.50 / (80 * 1024) = 0.2p per MByte
So Cliff is wrong, it appears.
RMS is no longer a big name, regardless of what he might wish. GNU has done loads of great work over the years, but sooner or later Stallman has to accept that he's not got the kernel. It's not his, and GNU won't be putting out Hurd. He's done a lot, but it's time for him to take a back seat.
Nah, that's what .pl is for. None of this huge vbs nonsense, *NIX vir(whatever) can be about sixty bytes big and actually *look* like an ASCII art picture of Anna Kournikova.
:)
Hey, that's a thought... With all those perl loveletters around, how hard would it be to make one of them destructive?
I've not seen a suit fiddle with a presentation. I have, however, seen five hours (yes, 5) wasted by several teachers at my school in putting together a few crappy slides for an assembly. They could have made a better job of them by hand in a tenth of the time.
But now... I could, erm, improve the content. Say, replace the word 'Ethos' with something less buzzwords, and add a few more interesting graphics...
*must*... resist... urge... to put in goatse comment...
Yes, *click* I can *click* strongly *click* *click* recommend using *click* a Zip *click* drive to *click* back up your *click* work...
I've been running a pair as RAID-0 (yeah, I know...) for a couple of months, haven't had any major problems. The drives seem to seek to the inner track and back more often than my Seagate drive, but it's rarely a problem.
I've had problems with other drives before because of a power supply which was slightly too low voltage -- it seems a few drives are overly sensitive to minor voltage drops.
Maybe a big fat cheque in a brown envelope? If, as it appears, they're playing the money game, the only way to stop them will be to give them more money than anyone else.
Only way I can think of is to make popup windows named, and then use JavaScript to check that mypopup.images['myimage'].src (??? not used JS for ages) is what it should be...
The KDE media player can handle those formats.
Yep, if you post a bug there's a checkbox to be notified of replies, changes etc. by email.
I'm not fluent at legalese, but as far as I can see it means ALL YOUR CODE ARE BELONG TO US.
Borland Object Pascal doesn't allow pointer arithmetic without casts.
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Borland's free C++ compiler which is here. All the MS includes, Borland's VCL stuff... Very powerful commandline.
Seen what you get with Delphi (and Kylix for that matter)? There's the nice cute GUI, sure, but you still get commandline compilers, resource builders, linkers and so on as separate apps. You can, of course, pipe and so on...
This gives you the best of both worlds -- use the GUI when you want to design interfaces, ignore the gui and just stick to the commandline tools when you want automation.
Borland's C++Builder also has separate commandline tools (and pretty primitive grep and make...) (which, incidentally, are free for download but not quite Free).
Far easier to put on glasses and make sure the lenses are partially mirrored on the outside. Just as effective, far less painful and doesn't stop you doing things like talking and eating...
Since when was censorware a .net? I always thought it was censorware.org (as it should be, since they're an organisation and not an ISP...).
Or maybe agrep. Isn't approximate matching more useful for this kind of task?
What I'd really like would be to have a CPU in my arm. Not for real thought -- too complicated just now -- but for the odd maths test it'd be extremely useful...
Of course, it'd have to be something slow -- could you imagine a human with cooling fans stuck all over them?
Sure, a red splodge on the screen looks nice, but nothing beats a corpse which has been hacked in half and is full of bullets. It's the multiplayer thing -- it's soooooo much more satisfying to get realistic gibs than a few dots.
So even though games are playable on a z80 (yes, there is at least one 3d engine on a ti86 calculator), there isn't the same splat effect.
Gamers want fancy interfaces. I know someone who's a huge fan of Civ, Alpha Centauri et al., but when I introduced him to FreeCiv his first comment was "the interface sucks". This isn't someone who's computer illiterate, either.
It seems that people want something different when playing a game. They don't want just their standard operating system look, they want fullscreen fancy eyecandy, even when that's not the nicest option.
You can even see this in game editors -- AFAIK, WorldCraft is the only editor even close to the standard OS style...
Whether it's because the whole screen should look SciFi / Fantasy / Whatever, or simply because users want something different, game interfaces have to be different from usual programs.
Heck, since when did MHz mean something?
Remember, part of the open source definition is that software must be for anyone, whether it's a pro-freedom organisation or a bunch of international terrorists.
If you were to start saying that "It's free, but only to people we like", you're becoming worse than that certain company. AFAIK, they'll sell to pretty much anyone...