Windows swaps out all of your programs in favor of caching what you're burning. Hence there is a lot of paging going on when you switch apps. This is what slows down your computer (not the actual DVD burning).
Of course, if the burning program was correctly written, you wouldn't have this problem. But reading the docs is a waste of time when you can just not read them and your program works. (Also Windows is completely broken itself, but I won't go there.)
Well the police department bought the wrong product. They fucked up. They could have read some reports and decided that *NIX would have been a better choice.
This is the fault of people who buy M$ products. M$ has every right to make a shitty product. Nobody's holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy it (and if you say "well I need interoperability" i say that OO.org works fine AND i also say that that's too bad. which do you want? stability or more apps?)
Yup. If I got this letter I would have one word for good 'ol Comcast. Cancel. They're not the only ISP. If they're going to take the side of the lawsuit-happy guilty-until-proven-innocent MPAA/RIAA then I'm going to take my business elsewhere. Yes, yes. Downloading is illegal. Fuck murder and rape; downloading is ruining our society. This has been proven in court. Oh. There's no legal document that makes p2p illegal and no court precedent? Well, the lawyers for the MPAA say it's illegal and that makes it so. Uh huh.
What I find ironic is that I don't feel bad about downloading movies. They cost $20 and they're just not worth the money. Slashdot, however, I like. It's free but I pay $5 every so often to subscribe. Maybe the movie industry would like to try to appeal to my tastes. Otherwise I'm going to continue to download^W, erm... murder children* I mean.
* That's what it's called these days. Won't somebody please think of the children?
Fun is good. I don't give a damn about storyline myself. I want to kill things with cool weapons. There are few feelings as good as running over four of your closest friends with a heavily-armoured SUV (Hellbender from ut2004).
For me, UT is exactly what I want in a computer time. Lots of fun, good graphics, and an annoying announcer ("Vehicular manslaughter!" when you run people over:). The three UTs are the only games I've ever bought (or played for that matter).
Why not rip to FLAC instead? It's lossless so that you can compress to a new format without losing any details (unless you WANT to lose them, if you're downloading them to your iPod for instance).
I would flash the BIOS, myself. Then they're *REALLY* fucked. Wipe the FAT (or whatever the new windows FS is) for good measure as well. Maybe that "HEY EVERYONE, IM LOOKING AT GAY PORNO" every other reboot would be good as well (if you don't feel like flashing the BIOS).
These days I don't even understand why viruses are illegal. You have to type in a *password* in order to be infected (the file is encrypted to avoid scanners). That sounds like consent to run to me (bye BIOS).
Yes. All this "I would move to Linux if..." is getting really annoying. If Linux doesn't work for you, don't feel forced to use it. It's a tool that's available to you. I, for one, can't really get Windows or MacOS to work the way I like, so I don't use them. I don't post to slashdot saying "I would move to Windows if..."; why should you?
Also, if you don't like The GIMP, don't use it. No gun to your head. For me, the GIMP works well enough (I don't see anything wrong with it) and hey, it's $0 and I can see the source code. For that reason (the source code) it will ALWAYS be better than photoshop. IANA:)
You're misreading what he said. He says that the ideas are copyrighted. You can't go around claiming you wrote Linux. But the ideas behind Linux (scheduling algorithm, etc, etc) are in the open! You can't copy the code verbatim to a non-GPL'd project but you can take ideas all you want.
With a driver, you can't take code OR ideas. The grandparent wants ideas open (and source code protected so that you can't copy source verbatim, you have to implement it yourself). I think.
Umm, I've installed Debian many many times (on x86 and ppc) and I just love the installer. It works quite nicely. X would have been overkill, so I appreciate the simple curses interface. It Just Works, and that's nice.
Ohh but I had to use my brain because the installer won't think for me. How sad...
Not really. C++ is a hack, OO was new and experimental when C++ was being created. OO matured and java used OO from the ground up. The two languages are QUITE different (think templates vs. interfaces, friend classes vs. packages, etc... they're different).
As I noticed: I wasn't too good at algebra until I applied it to geometry. I wasn't too good at geometry until I applied it to calculus. I was okay in calculus but differential equations really solidified it. Algebra, "odd" factoring, etc. is useful and very very solid for me now. So learning more math helps you solidify what you already have. That's a good thing.
And while most problems in the real world are just "type it in and get the answer", there's always something that the computer doesn't know how to do. The example I cite is solving high order Cauchy-Euler differential equations. The TI89 can't do it. However, I know a simple substitution that turns it into a high order constant-coefficients problem. That you may solve by finding roots of a polynomial (which the calculator can do fine). Knowing how to do what the calculator is doing is always a good thing.
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Windows swaps out all of your programs in favor of caching what you're burning. Hence there is a lot of paging going on when you switch apps. This is what slows down your computer (not the actual DVD burning).
Of course, if the burning program was correctly written, you wouldn't have this problem. But reading the docs is a waste of time when you can just not read them and your program works. (Also Windows is completely broken itself, but I won't go there.)
> xcurs [iki.fi] -- XCursor editor for XFree86 4.3 out now.
/~ptikka/decurs.html on this server.
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You don't have permission to access
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Well the police department bought the wrong product. They fucked up. They could have read some reports and decided that *NIX would have been a better choice.
This is the fault of people who buy M$ products. M$ has every right to make a shitty product. Nobody's holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy it (and if you say "well I need interoperability" i say that OO.org works fine AND i also say that that's too bad. which do you want? stability or more apps?)
You called to ask about the phone outage? Umm, how did you go about that :)
I spray my shower curtain with bleach every week or so. That should kill our good bacteria friends...
Yup. If I got this letter I would have one word for good 'ol Comcast. Cancel. They're not the only ISP. If they're going to take the side of the lawsuit-happy guilty-until-proven-innocent MPAA/RIAA then I'm going to take my business elsewhere. Yes, yes. Downloading is illegal. Fuck murder and rape; downloading is ruining our society. This has been proven in court. Oh. There's no legal document that makes p2p illegal and no court precedent? Well, the lawyers for the MPAA say it's illegal and that makes it so. Uh huh.
What I find ironic is that I don't feel bad about downloading movies. They cost $20 and they're just not worth the money. Slashdot, however, I like. It's free but I pay $5 every so often to subscribe. Maybe the movie industry would like to try to appeal to my tastes. Otherwise I'm going to continue to download^W, erm... murder children* I mean.
* That's what it's called these days. Won't somebody please think of the children?
Fun is good. I don't give a damn about storyline myself. I want to kill things with cool weapons. There are few feelings as good as running over four of your closest friends with a heavily-armoured SUV (Hellbender from ut2004).
:). The three UTs are the only games I've ever bought (or played for that matter).
For me, UT is exactly what I want in a computer time. Lots of fun, good graphics, and an annoying announcer ("Vehicular manslaughter!" when you run people over
I myself an using Mozilla Waterphoenix. Let's open a new window. Hey, they changed names again. Now it's Spaceant!
Why not rip to FLAC instead? It's lossless so that you can compress to a new format without losing any details (unless you WANT to lose them, if you're downloading them to your iPod for instance).
One linux server, three linux worstations at home :) So far 100% of computers are Linux!!
I would flash the BIOS, myself. Then they're *REALLY* fucked. Wipe the FAT (or whatever the new windows FS is) for good measure as well. Maybe that "HEY EVERYONE, IM LOOKING AT GAY PORNO" every other reboot would be good as well (if you don't feel like flashing the BIOS).
These days I don't even understand why viruses are illegal. You have to type in a *password* in order to be infected (the file is encrypted to avoid scanners). That sounds like consent to run to me (bye BIOS).
Yes. All this "I would move to Linux if..." is getting really annoying. If Linux doesn't work for you, don't feel forced to use it. It's a tool that's available to you. I, for one, can't really get Windows or MacOS to work the way I like, so I don't use them. I don't post to slashdot saying "I would move to Windows if..."; why should you?
:)
Also, if you don't like The GIMP, don't use it. No gun to your head. For me, the GIMP works well enough (I don't see anything wrong with it) and hey, it's $0 and I can see the source code. For that reason (the source code) it will ALWAYS be better than photoshop. IANA
How can he email you privately? Your address is not shown...
When you bend the "PCB board" you had better go to the ATM machine and get money to buy a new one.
Nothing illegal about them. Not "unlawful" either. All of those are media for file transfers. What you transfer is up to you.
:) to get the UT2004 demo)
(That said, I've only used BT legally once
Maybe it was The Free Lossless Audio Codec?
Mod parent down.
:)
Isn't anyone else sick of the "isn't anyone else sick of the 'karma sacrifice' line as a way to get points" line as a way to get points?
You're misreading what he said. He says that the ideas are copyrighted. You can't go around claiming you wrote Linux. But the ideas behind Linux (scheduling algorithm, etc, etc) are in the open! You can't copy the code verbatim to a non-GPL'd project but you can take ideas all you want.
With a driver, you can't take code OR ideas. The grandparent wants ideas open (and source code protected so that you can't copy source verbatim, you have to implement it yourself). I think.
You get certain kernel data structures. No GPL, no special data. That's what the problem is (LinuxAnt wants GPL-only data, but they aren't GPL).
:)
LinuxAnt is really screwed here, as their drivers obviously won't work anymore
Umm, I've installed Debian many many times (on x86 and ppc) and I just love the installer. It works quite nicely. X would have been overkill, so I appreciate the simple curses interface. It Just Works, and that's nice.
Ohh but I had to use my brain because the installer won't think for me. How sad...
I know. But "he won awards" isn't a substitute for being open source. I can't run it anyway, I don't have windows (or a laptop, or WiFi :)
24 hours at many places now. Sleeping* is not something that college students do :)
:)
* at night. The dark is good for coding, the light for sleeping
Not really. C++ is a hack, OO was new and experimental when C++ was being created. OO matured and java used OO from the ground up. The two languages are QUITE different (think templates vs. interfaces, friend classes vs. packages, etc... they're different).
Okay. Thanks for the reply :)
As I noticed: I wasn't too good at algebra until I applied it to geometry. I wasn't too good at geometry until I applied it to calculus. I was okay in calculus but differential equations really solidified it. Algebra, "odd" factoring, etc. is useful and very very solid for me now. So learning more math helps you solidify what you already have. That's a good thing.
And while most problems in the real world are just "type it in and get the answer", there's always something that the computer doesn't know how to do. The example I cite is solving high order Cauchy-Euler differential equations. The TI89 can't do it. However, I know a simple substitution that turns it into a high order constant-coefficients problem. That you may solve by finding roots of a polynomial (which the calculator can do fine). Knowing how to do what the calculator is doing is always a good thing.