This site is almost worthless without the images. All of the equations are in GIF form. Most of the definitions on the site depend on some sort mathematical expression. If MathML were around when HTML first began then the site would have been written in MathML and we wouldn't have this problem (except with the graphs and Java applets but they are less important).
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Diablo is just Nethack without all of the complexity and with some useless graphics tacked on. Nethack is the most intricate game ever made and I find it pointless to try to imitate it and fall so short as Diablo does. Multiplayer be damned.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
My understanding is that WINE's support for VxDs is almost nonexistent and shows little hope of improving any time soon due to the nature of these beasts. If I'm not mistaken all of the Win32 platforms use VxDs. I can't imagine any practical reason a word processor should use a VxD but if Microsoft can come up with some reason to make all of the Office apps dependent on VxDs, WINE would not be able to run them.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
emulate-to strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation
The computer usage of emulate came from this definition. The word emulate in computers originally meant to provide the features of something else by imitating all of its functions. For example, a piece of hardware might have a mode in which it emulates another piece of hardware (eg cheap sound cards emulating sound blasters). The narrower meaning of emulate, to interpret machine code of another platform in software, seems to be a later development. However, by the original meaning of the word, WINE certainly does emulate the Windows environment.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Actually, votor could be seen as a valid spelling. Most of the time in the English language we form a noun meaning "one who Xs" from a verb X by adding -er to it. However, in nouns of Latin origin (particularly those whose Latin past participles end in -tus) we use the Latin ending -or. Thus, rather than writing directer we write director (which comes from dirigere with past participle directus). Look in a Latin dictionary and you will find the entry voveo, vovere, vovi, votum (these are the principle parts of the verb; the last principle part is the supine stem from which the past participle is formed). The English word vote is derived from this word. The past participle is votus so the Latin parallel of voter (parallel and not equivalent since vovere does not mean to vote) is votor. Based on Latin, votor would mean either a male voter or a voter of unspecified gender. A female voter would be a votrix.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Probably ReiserFS. I and several of my acquaintance have used it as primary FS in some pretty ugly environments (think laptop with loose battery). I didn't notice any performance hit, but the slowest machine I ran it on was a PII-366. I haven't converted any of my slower home machines yet.
You didn't get any performance hit because ReiserFS is faster than Ext2. Of course, I'm basing this on the benchmarks that Namesys has on the ReiserFS site so I may not have seen the benchmarks in which ReiserFS does poorly, but in these benchmarks, ReiserFS beats ext2 significantly in all areas. If speed is really important you can mount your ReiserFS partitions with -notail, but this creates more wasted space (from what I understand it is only slightly more).
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"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
The computer usage of emulate came from this definition. The word emulate in computers originally meant to provide the features of something else by imitating all of its functions. For example, a piece of hardware might have a mode in which it emulates another piece of hardware (eg cheap sound cards emulating sound blasters). The narrower meaning of emulate, to interpret machine code of another platform in software, seems to be a later development. However, by the original meaning of the word, WINE certainly does emulate the Windows environment.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Actually, votor could be seen as a valid spelling. Most of the time in the English language we form a noun meaning "one who Xs" from a verb X by adding -er to it. However, in nouns of Latin origin (particularly those whose Latin past participles end in -tus) we use the Latin ending -or. Thus, rather than writing directer we write director (which comes from dirigere with past participle directus). Look in a Latin dictionary and you will find the entry voveo, vovere, vovi, votum (these are the principle parts of the verb; the last principle part is the supine stem from which the past participle is formed). The English word vote is derived from this word. The past participle is votus so the Latin parallel of voter (parallel and not equivalent since vovere does not mean to vote) is votor. Based on Latin, votor would mean either a male voter or a voter of unspecified gender. A female voter would be a votrix.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)