Apparently, the USA isn't the world (despite the World Series being called... that.)
The reason why courts in different countries make different (opposing) decisions is because each country has it's own laws. The court reaches a decision in accordance with those laws.
The day US law infiltrates other countries (more than it has already done so) is the day I move to... another planet. One where the US government isn't welcome. MWaheheahaeheahaeh... erm.
Not going to happen.
Modchip buying is the exception, rather than the rule. So it would be a very large (and costly, very costly, since they've sold a shitload of PS2's here) mistake. They won't do it. It may even cause enough backlash to totally kick Sony out of the Australia market. Which I can't really say would be a great loss. There are better quality products at the same (or lower) price.
You can walk into any normal, consumer electronics store (Retravision, Betta, Harvey Norman, Whatever) and buy *factory* multi-region'ed DVD players in Australia, already.
Guess which brand is the only one that doesn't come multi-region'ed by default?
It starts with a S, and is mentioned in the article linked from this story.
Unfortunately, Microsoft didn't come up with ClearType. Well, they came up with the name, but the technology was in use by many others before MS, see http://grc.com/ctwho.htm for some information.
Also, the sub-pixel font rendering was in XFree86 before it was declared "ClearType" and used by MS.
Maybe the companies funding GNOME should pay someone with eyes for design some money.
The themes suck, too.
If only someone working on these open source desktop environments/UI toolkits/etc would take a good look at MacOS, MacOSX, or even Windows.
No comparison.
...
Maybe their code has improved.
GNOME. Too little, too late.
(By the way, yes, I think KDE is better. Alot better. Alot more coherent. Alot more together. And the APIs are _SO_ much cleaner. The code is _SO_ much better.
KDE is not perfect. Nowhere near Windows/Mac. But... maybe it'll catch up in 5 years or something. And then GNOME will take another 5 years to come up to par with where KDE was. 5 years ago. Woo! Desktop Linux! heh.)
My domain name was near expiration lately, and so I went to renew it another registar (totalnic.net) I waited, and waited. 3 weeks later my domain expired, and NSI *LOCKED THE DOMAIN*. I emailed totalnic asking why my renewal had not gone through, and I was told that NSI had not approved the move to a CORE registar yet. So, NSI has my domain on hold, and I could not get it transferred to another registar. So I paid NSI their f***ing money.
Woohoo! XMMS does rock, but... does anyone else experience weird CPU usage when running XMMS ? It checks up 99% of CPU on some machines I've run it on? Is it just tricking 'top' or something else ?
We all know that SP5 is a cumulative fix pack - containing many "hot fixes".
Compare these "hot fixes" to RH "updates" and its the same thing.
Microsoft releases a Service Pack every 6 (?) or so months, so in between, they release hot fixes. Any competent NT administrator would install these hot fixes, just like any competent Linux administrator would install RH updates.
PC Week have clearly contridicted themselves, - its just plain *stupid*.
As for "no central repository" - another contridiction, what makes an update from Microsoft more "trustworthy" than an update from RH? What makes a file downloaded from ftp.microsoft.com more "verified" then one from updates.redhat.com?
Does Imlib2 plan to have internal support for most of the gfx file formats that you need netpbm, ImageMagick, etc for? The biggest problem with E is that you go through 2 hours of library upgrades before you can./configure and then install the thing.
I don't know why, but many people I know prefer Netscape [3.x,4.x] to IE[4,5], and they're not all that "techie". So Netscape has not totally lost it. As someone pointed out earlier, Netscape 4.7 was downloaded a fair few times from download.com. On another note, nightly builds of Mozilla are quite good =) Infact, I use Mozilla [under linux] for my daily browsing needs, and it has not crashed all that much. This is probably because i am using "viewer_gtk" instead of "apprunner". I just find apprunner a bit slow, viewer_gtk is blazingly fast =).
Ok, correct me if I'm mistaken, but Apple doesn't make the G4 chip... Motorola(AltiVec) and IBM (G4 in the next Nintendo console) do... What Apple does is bundle the chip with all the extra components and package it. Therefore, Apple _DID NOT_ create the "first personal supercomputer", they meerly packaged the fast CPU.
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What are you on?
./cpp_version
./c_version
./c_version
[ok@melchior1 meh]$ make c_version cpp_version
cc c_version.c -o c_version
g++ cpp_version.cpp -o cpp_version
[ok@melchior1 meh]$ time
0.52user 0.00system 0:00.52elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (123major+1034minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[ok@melchior1 meh]$ time
0.49user 0.00system 0:00.49elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (79major+1546minor)pagefaults 0swaps
C version is faster.
And that's not even the point (although your "statistics" are obviously false.)
Let's fix your C up a bit:
int compare(int* first, int *second)
{
return *first *second;
}
[everything else is the same.]
[ok@melchior1 meh]$ time
0.40user 0.02system 0:00.42elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (79major+1546minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Wow. Even faster.
Plus, you don't know which type of sort those 2 sort functions actually use. So your whole example is stupid.
Meh.
You have looked at asp2php right?
Why don't you just copy that, and make it output perl instead?
I stand corrected and enlightened.
Apparently, the USA isn't the world (despite the World Series being called ... that.)
... another planet. One where the US government isn't welcome. MWaheheahaeheahaeh... erm.
The reason why courts in different countries make different (opposing) decisions is because each country has it's own laws. The court reaches a decision in accordance with those laws.
The day US law infiltrates other countries (more than it has already done so) is the day I move to
Not going to happen.
Modchip buying is the exception, rather than the rule. So it would be a very large (and costly, very costly, since they've sold a shitload of PS2's here) mistake. They won't do it. It may even cause enough backlash to totally kick Sony out of the Australia market. Which I can't really say would be a great loss. There are better quality products at the same (or lower) price.
You can walk into any normal, consumer electronics store (Retravision, Betta, Harvey Norman, Whatever) and buy *factory* multi-region'ed DVD players in Australia, already.
Guess which brand is the only one that doesn't come multi-region'ed by default?
It starts with a S, and is mentioned in the article linked from this story.
Unfortunately, Microsoft didn't come up with ClearType. Well, they came up with the name, but the technology was in use by many others before MS, see http://grc.com/ctwho.htm for some information.
Also, the sub-pixel font rendering was in XFree86 before it was declared "ClearType" and used by MS.
It still looks fucking ugly.
... maybe it'll catch up in 5 years or something. And then GNOME will take another 5 years to come up to par with where KDE was. 5 years ago. Woo! Desktop Linux! heh.)
Ick.
Maybe the companies funding GNOME should pay someone with eyes for design some money.
The themes suck, too.
If only someone working on these open source desktop environments/UI toolkits/etc would take a good look at MacOS, MacOSX, or even Windows.
No comparison.
...
Maybe their code has improved.
GNOME. Too little, too late.
(By the way, yes, I think KDE is better. Alot better. Alot more coherent. Alot more together. And the APIs are _SO_ much cleaner. The code is _SO_ much better.
KDE is not perfect. Nowhere near Windows/Mac. But
bob@tree:~$ uname -a
Linux tree 2.4.6 #1 Thu Jul 5 16:34:16 EST 2001 i686 unknown
bob@tree:~$ uptime
12:00am up 196 days, 5:28, 42 users, load average: 1.16, 2.52, 2.46
bob@tree:~$
I saw a preview of Kylix and the command line compilers/interpretters at COMDEX in Australia. It was pretty impressive :-)
My domain name was near expiration lately, and so I went to renew it another registar (totalnic.net)
I waited, and waited. 3 weeks later my domain expired, and NSI *LOCKED THE DOMAIN*. I emailed totalnic asking why my renewal had not gone through, and I was told that NSI had not approved the move to a CORE registar yet. So, NSI has my domain on hold, and I could not get it transferred to another registar. So I paid NSI their f***ing money.
For a web hosting company I worked for. ... Yeah.
Management decided it wasn't worth the time.
So
Woohoo! ... does anyone else experience weird CPU usage when running XMMS ? It checks up 99% of CPU on some machines I've run it on? Is it just tricking 'top' or something else ?
XMMS does rock, but
Is it just me, or does every mention of 'nanotech' remind me of The Diamond Age?
Neal does explain that this was intentional in the acknowledgements at the end of the book.
We all know that SP5 is a cumulative fix pack - containing many "hot fixes".
Compare these "hot fixes" to RH "updates" and its the same thing.
Microsoft releases a Service Pack every 6 (?) or so months, so in between, they release hot fixes. Any competent NT administrator would install these hot fixes, just like any competent Linux administrator would install RH updates.
PC Week have clearly contridicted themselves, - its just plain *stupid*.
As for "no central repository" - another contridiction, what makes an update from Microsoft more "trustworthy" than an update from RH? What makes a file downloaded from ftp.microsoft.com more "verified" then one from updates.redhat.com?
nyeah.
Does Imlib2 plan to have internal support for most of the gfx file formats that you need netpbm, ImageMagick, etc for? ./configure and then install the thing.
The biggest problem with E is that you go through 2 hours of library upgrades before you can
I don't know why, but many people I know prefer Netscape [3.x,4.x] to IE[4,5], and they're not all that "techie".
So Netscape has not totally lost it.
As someone pointed out earlier, Netscape 4.7 was downloaded a fair few times from download.com.
On another note, nightly builds of Mozilla are quite good =)
Infact, I use Mozilla [under linux] for my daily browsing needs, and it has not crashed all that much. This is probably because i am using "viewer_gtk" instead of "apprunner". I just find apprunner a bit slow, viewer_gtk is blazingly fast =).
They're on the RHAT 6.1 CD in the docs directory.t -6.1/i386/doc/rhinst/figs/cd-rom-gu i/.
Also, on the web/ftp.
I got these from ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/disks/.55/redhat/redha
But, as you can see from that directory's listing, each screenshot is 350kb, and not really organised, so I reduced the size (compressed GIF) and organised them a bit.
YACC
Incase you missed these in the previous story.
http://aurore.net/stuff/rhinst/
I've put up the screenshots from the GUI Install.
You can find them at http://aurore.net/stuff/rhinst/.
According to previous posts, the new firmware improved PCI performance. Why would anyone out there NOT want this ?
What the firmware release notes did NOT say was that if you installed the firmware, you will not be able to upgrade to a G4 chip.
> And what he knows, he don't tell for damned good reasons.
... that's probably because he knows nothing ?
Uhm
Ok, correct me if I'm mistaken, but Apple doesn't make the G4 chip ... Motorola(AltiVec) and IBM (G4 in the next Nintendo console) do ... What Apple does is bundle the chip with all the extra components and package it. Therefore, Apple _DID NOT_ create the "first personal supercomputer", they meerly packaged the fast CPU.