How viable are the alternatives? (Which really means TenDRA and Fabrice Bellard's TCC)
I think for most purposes we're still tied to gcc, though if I could write a compiler worth my salt I'd like to come up with an alternative; everything else has one.
Solaris has a big advantage in that it's actually Unix, CDE and all, which no Linux distro that I know of can claim. A BSD running Lesstif and its window manager is the closest open source analog I can think of.
Among the Linux users in my "community", most use Debian (some of whom used Ubuntu before and one who started with Knoppix; I went from RH8 to FC1 to Debian 3.1 to Ubuntu 5/10 and back to Debian 4.0), one uses SuSE (*cringe*). I think there's a Gentoo user there too. One of them, I think, maintained an ISP in the land down under, and I think he ran Debian on production servers.
The standard is implemented by systems such as Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and the BSDs basically have an attitude of "if we can, we ought to", as opposed to GNU's "generally copy the look and feel but add features" that results in significantly larger, slower (GNU's bash is a LOT slower than the public domain version of ksh, despite them being very similar), etc., and all the GNU extensions make compatibility with non-GNU unices like OSX a bit harder.
I for one would rather have something that's GPL2 or BSD, and acts like Solaris's userland (CDE and all that jazz), something that if it were submitted to Open could get use of the UNIX trademark, before it were to get extended.
At risk of being called a troll... GNU does embrace/extend too. But it's "free software", so it's all right, I guess?
I prefer BSD precisely for that reason, they try to do it by the book, THEN they try to improve. That's why their binaries are easily half the size of GNU's.
Did they themselves name it the Famicom? I was under the impression that was a nickname given by the users that stuck (and was used on peripherals) and that they called it the Nintendo Family Computer.
I dunno but I don't see the sense in having *any* OS on a phone. If I were to buy a cell phone, I'd want one with just a 10-digit calc-style readout that does NOTHING BUT CALLS (incoming/outgoing). I don't need all that junk and don't want to pay for it, in price, in battery life, or in any other way.
And you think Dubya wouldn't love to be able to just use nothing but foot troops in waves as cannon fodder in some perverted plan to send wave after wave of them at the "A-rabs" in some scheme about dying for the (fundie pseudo-Christian) faith?
The day Linux becomes the majority OS is the day the geeks flee to Solaris and the BSDs. Because Linux won't be the "leet" OS anymore. (We've seen it happen already, sometimes causing developer/maintainer disputes and leading to forks, like cdrtools -> cdrkit.)
I for one am sticking to Linux. I use it strictly for practicality; if I wanted a system to play around with I'd be using NetBSD, because I prefer its base userland and lighter code.
Never seen it happen in any cinema I've gone to, in Poughkeepsie, Red Hook, Oswego, or Niagara Falls... Theatergoers here are usually pretty quiet, maybe it's just that I don't much go to kiddie flix.
EWWWW! I so hate animated station bugs. Especially that shit they have on Jetsux now (Toon Disney) where they shrink the screen so they can take up a quarter of it with some advertisement... Come on, you HAVE commercial time, use *it* for your ads! Sheesh.
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I've been a big GEM fan myself ... but I used it mostly on a Tandy 1000.
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Dihydrogen monoxide. Never underestimate the stupidity of plebes.
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There *are* one-handed Dvorak layouts, you know.
It still exists, doesn't it?
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How viable are the alternatives? (Which really means TenDRA and Fabrice Bellard's TCC)
I think for most purposes we're still tied to gcc, though if I could write a compiler worth my salt I'd like to come up with an alternative; everything else has one.
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A friend of mine has started using one of those webcam repeaters to simulcast Cartoon Network.
The stream is a plain old wmv9 and can be played with MPlayer. And everything that can be played with MPlayer can be *ripped* with MPlayer...
I'd like to see some full-time TV-to-Internet repeaters fire up around the world, it'll be interesting. xD
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Vista's going down like a lead balloon and even Microsoft is seeing it. o.O Vista is truly the Titanic of OSes.
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Actually I do like CDE. But that's beside the point: CDE's a Unix standard, Gnome and KDE aren't, therefore CDE's what I want my "Unix" to have.
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Solaris has a big advantage in that it's actually Unix, CDE and all, which no Linux distro that I know of can claim. A BSD running Lesstif and its window manager is the closest open source analog I can think of.
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Among the Linux users in my "community", most use Debian (some of whom used Ubuntu before and one who started with Knoppix; I went from RH8 to FC1 to Debian 3.1 to Ubuntu 5/10 and back to Debian 4.0), one uses SuSE (*cringe*). I think there's a Gentoo user there too. One of them, I think, maintained an ISP in the land down under, and I think he ran Debian on production servers.
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The standard is implemented by systems such as Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and the BSDs basically have an attitude of "if we can, we ought to", as opposed to GNU's "generally copy the look and feel but add features" that results in significantly larger, slower (GNU's bash is a LOT slower than the public domain version of ksh, despite them being very similar), etc., and all the GNU extensions make compatibility with non-GNU unices like OSX a bit harder.
I for one would rather have something that's GPL2 or BSD, and acts like Solaris's userland (CDE and all that jazz), something that if it were submitted to Open could get use of the UNIX trademark, before it were to get extended.
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At risk of being called a troll... GNU does embrace/extend too. But it's "free software", so it's all right, I guess?
I prefer BSD precisely for that reason, they try to do it by the book, THEN they try to improve. That's why their binaries are easily half the size of GNU's.
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I've ported a bunch of BSD stuff myself, and I'd have no issue porting more if there were 36 hours in a day.
Nothing to do with GPL, everything to do with GNU bloatware.
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Did they themselves name it the Famicom? I was under the impression that was a nickname given by the users that stuck (and was used on peripherals) and that they called it the Nintendo Family Computer.
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I dunno but I don't see the sense in having *any* OS on a phone. If I were to buy a cell phone, I'd want one with just a 10-digit calc-style readout that does NOTHING BUT CALLS (incoming/outgoing). I don't need all that junk and don't want to pay for it, in price, in battery life, or in any other way.
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And you think Dubya wouldn't love to be able to just use nothing but foot troops in waves as cannon fodder in some perverted plan to send wave after wave of them at the "A-rabs" in some scheme about dying for the (fundie pseudo-Christian) faith?
I can just imagine him doing it too.
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And what Nolan Bushnell knew in the early 70s, most game companies seem not to understand 30, 35 years later. :/
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How much in a 12-oz. bottle of Goya guaraná soda? Guaraná is known for its caffeine content, that's why people buy Bawls.
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I still prefer 80x25.
That said my always-open xterm that I code in is 101x35.
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That and he's a zealous Solaris advocate. Whose name do you think Schillix bears?
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The day Linux becomes the majority OS is the day the geeks flee to Solaris and the BSDs. Because Linux won't be the "leet" OS anymore. (We've seen it happen already, sometimes causing developer/maintainer disputes and leading to forks, like cdrtools -> cdrkit.)
I for one am sticking to Linux. I use it strictly for practicality; if I wanted a system to play around with I'd be using NetBSD, because I prefer its base userland and lighter code.
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Never seen it happen in any cinema I've gone to, in Poughkeepsie, Red Hook, Oswego, or Niagara Falls... Theatergoers here are usually pretty quiet, maybe it's just that I don't much go to kiddie flix.
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They're there as Capitol Records.
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Not yet, thank God.
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EWWWW! I so hate animated station bugs. Especially that shit they have on Jetsux now (Toon Disney) where they shrink the screen so they can take up a quarter of it with some advertisement... Come on, you HAVE commercial time, use *it* for your ads! Sheesh.
And to think I pay $69 a month for this bullshit.
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