My RedHat 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade nearly won kudos for smoothness, until the CD quit working. Some error about/dev/cdrom not being valid. Do you just delete that, reboot, and hope it auto-detects the CD? Where is a good site to get some documentation? Granted, I don't understand the internals on Lose98 any better, but this is a good one...
...even though that will make essentially every webpage that's designed for IE not work.
...arguably a feature.
Can't OSS freaks come up w/ an original idea?
Thoughts along this line get into infinte regression, as you thug from Mr. Softy what are really previously thugged ideas.
Recall Solomon's preemtive strike, oh Choad Correspondent: "There is nothing new thing under the sun". (Ecclesiastes 1:somethin')
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The reason for this mis-design...is political: the nationalities in question have never been asked how many characters they would need...
This is certainly a true statement, but it gets at a basic engineering tradeoff: performance verses inclusiveness.
Total inclusiveness isn't desireable for two reasons.
a) When it comes to dead languages, you have scholars who make their living arguing over fine points pertaining thereto, thus making a 'standard' a moving target. Attempts at total inclusiveness are an exercise in windmill jousting.
b) Even in a "broadband for all my friends" environment, the market (where the loot is) favors svelte technologies.
Prediction: the market partitions itself with the low end covered by Unicode, and more exotic technologies to favor the scholarly crowd.
Do an interview, let the/. unwashed mod up the 10 best, or at least 10 lucid, remarks, filter them through the proper suit to correct the general non-command of English you see on here, and submit.
These seem non-arguments.
Since when has using financial resources intelligently 'look[ed] bad on shareholders'?
Your second point could point out a strong market opportunity for consultants.
Of course, that consultant market diminishes the cost savings of using open source applications.
However, when a particular open source database is as ubiquitous as, say, TCP/IP, it strikes me that _savvy_ shareholders would view its use as a strength, as the company reduces the heroin-addiction-like lock-in of, say, SQL Server.
If it's really all about the polls, and not about the law, then they should rename the Department of Justice (DOJ), and call it the Department of Internal Politics (DIP).
I held out for a Kyocera 6035.
Any new gadget without wireless and cel phone capability seems a regression.
When there is one of reasonable size that chews up and spits out the asinine array of world-wide cel phone standards, you can expect a sale here.
All I'm saying is that when I had a requirement to fabricate an RS-232 cable to move a horrible legacy dumb terminal, there was no difficulty getting all of the materials in one place.
Admittedly, their customer service was a little raw.
Really, now.
If you were a serious thief, you'd be no more apt to reveal the exploit than a magician to reveal the trick.
Visa... MasterCard... the banks... they all lose piles of money annually, yet say nothing, due to the negative marketing impact.
The DOJ's "Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again" deal with Mr. Softy amounts to a fart in a thunderstorm. The only real judge, jury, and executioner is the market. When people tell Billy G. to talk to the hand, we're not swallowing your latest lock-in scheme, regardless of the good aspects of the engineering and convenience offered, then we can see about real competition.
Only the market, by refusing to buy flawed products, can improve the QA of anyone.
Building computers from piece parts seems a good way to:
a) know what you've got under the hood
b) obviate this entire discussion about MicroShaft's business savvy, ethically deficient licensing 'practices'.
Not to Fry's Electronics: how about a store in the Northern Virginia area?
The article is written at a very high level of abstraction. One huge unconsidered factor is the XBox, a sub-300$ computer whose effects on the market will be negligible (doubt it) or catastrophic. We'll see in a couple of years.
OTOH, between my RedHat 7.1 disks, the KDE 2/Qt Bible, and some downloads, I am still finding installing KDevelop an...educational... experience. 'T'sall good, I'll figure it out, but what a prolonged tooth extraction. C++ Builder under 'Doze this is not.
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It might lead us to the promised land where the application is what matters, not the OS, and the lame incompatibilities introduced by some companies in an anti-competitive spirit will bite them where they deserve it.
>better-than-STL STL-like functionality (linked > lists, hashes, and so on)
I haven't actually coded against Qt. My efforts at getting KDevelop installed have been... educational, but I hope to get there.
My experience coding against VCL in C++ Builder has been that platform-specific widget sets can be an annoyance. It seems a good practice to bias tool choice towards the Standard Library. This buys hope of portability and decreases time spent trying to learn Yet Another String Implementation.
Where is the business sense in that? I'd like to tinker around, get the cross platform product fully pimped out, and then pay for licensing just prior to roll-out. Such an approach would mitigate financial risk on my end, without effect on the Troll Tech revenue stream. Troll Tech, indeed.
Because the raw arrogance of M$ is only exceeded by that of the company's native country.
Why should Redmond condescend to admit ANY other markets exist, notwithstanding a transient period when they feign fair business practices prior to crushing all opposition?
Consider what they are doing with the XBox. Do you think any competition will exist in the gaming market in a couple of years? That baby runs an M$ OS, and the latest DirectX API. Developers will simultaneously target the console and desktop gaming markets.
And then you figure out that you can slap a monitor and keyboard on this thing and, HOLY BALLS! A sub-300$ computer! The HP/Compaq merger shall have seemed ahead of its time 'fore too long, I reckon.
Credit where due: M$ supports a whole lot more hardware and software configurations than anyone else. Perhaps their fascist, anti-competitive methods are the only way to approach that. Any additional annoyance that they can use to deter people from trying other OSs is money in Billy G.'s pocket.
My solution (and I admittedly only run one 'nux distro besides Lose98SE) was to buy some removable hard drive brackets (15$ apiece or so) and just have a dedicated 'nux drive. This was easy to do, since none of the mentioned OSs have any paranoia features requiring them to phone home after sufficient hardware configuration changes, the way LoseXP so sweetly promotes 'nux.
Finishing this bottom blow, Gates, Ballmer, Alchin: the sad thing is that there will always be sheep for your wolfish business practices.
Thank you for doing my thinking for me, your anonymousness.
The crowning irony is that these OEM tactics are brought to you by the same crafty fellas that told you Open Source is 'unAmerican'.
I freely admit to using M$ products. Truth is, they get the job done. At the same time, there is a growing interest in preserving some semblance of a 'market' in the IT industry, which is why I pursue Linux skills in my spare time.
In terms of most annoying artificiality, the 'turn' concept is the hardest to get the mind around. Ships and aircraft have the capacity to move anywhere and attack A LOT of times in a 'turn'.
Having said that, you have to make some simplifications if you're going to bound the problem, enabling its solution.
Would calculating paths get more or less painful with a hex grid?
include a factor for raw, Orwellian fear that their need for continuous expansion triggers in the more conscious corners of the market? Will the resulting negative feedback from the marketplace prove far more devastating than any beating with the Sherman Anti-Trust stick?
MS has market diffusion through the OEM deals. So XP and.Net will virally market themselves.
But Linux never looked so good. Thanks for the left-handed Linux campaingn, Billy G.
Cool. Please ask them when there will be a patch so that the jog dial can be used against the contact list, without triggering errors during synchs to an lookOut2000.pst file through the Chapura conduit? Currently, you either access the contact with the flip down, then type it in by hand, or do a soft reset so that the contacts will synch again.
This is a tiny fly in an otherwise bitchen container of ointment.
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My RedHat 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade nearly won kudos for smoothness, until the CD quit working. Some error about /dev/cdrom not being valid. Do you just delete that, reboot, and hope it auto-detects the CD? Where is a good site to get some documentation? Granted, I don't understand the internals on Lose98 any better, but this is a good one...
...even though that will make essentially every webpage that's designed for IE not work.
...arguably a feature.
Can't OSS freaks come up w/ an original idea?
Thoughts along this line get into infinte regression, as you thug from Mr. Softy what are really previously thugged ideas.
Recall Solomon's preemtive strike, oh Choad Correspondent: "There is nothing new thing under the sun". (Ecclesiastes 1:somethin')
The reason for this mis-design...is political: the nationalities in question have never been asked how many characters they would need...
This is certainly a true statement, but it gets at a basic engineering tradeoff: performance verses inclusiveness.
Total inclusiveness isn't desireable for two reasons.
a) When it comes to dead languages, you have scholars who make their living arguing over fine points pertaining thereto, thus making a 'standard' a moving target. Attempts at total inclusiveness are an exercise in windmill jousting.
b) Even in a "broadband for all my friends" environment, the market (where the loot is) favors svelte technologies.
Prediction: the market partitions itself with the low end covered by Unicode, and more exotic technologies to favor the scholarly crowd.
Do an interview, let the /. unwashed mod up the 10 best, or at least 10 lucid, remarks, filter them through the proper suit to correct the general non-command of English you see on here, and submit.
These seem non-arguments.
Since when has using financial resources intelligently 'look[ed] bad on shareholders'?
Your second point could point out a strong market opportunity for consultants.
Of course, that consultant market diminishes the cost savings of using open source applications.
However, when a particular open source database is as ubiquitous as, say, TCP/IP, it strikes me that _savvy_ shareholders would view its use as a strength, as the company reduces the heroin-addiction-like lock-in of, say, SQL Server.
If it's really all about the polls, and not about the law, then they should rename the Department of Justice (DOJ), and call it the Department of Internal Politics (DIP).
I held out for a Kyocera 6035.
Any new gadget without wireless and cel phone capability seems a regression.
When there is one of reasonable size that chews up and spits out the asinine array of world-wide cel phone standards, you can expect a sale here.
I couldn't figure out how to copy a command from a document in the KDE text editor to a terminal window, but maybe I'm stoopid.
All I'm saying is that when I had a requirement to fabricate an RS-232 cable to move a horrible legacy dumb terminal, there was no difficulty getting all of the materials in one place.
Admittedly, their customer service was a little raw.
Really, now.
If you were a serious thief, you'd be no more apt to reveal the exploit than a magician to reveal the trick.
Visa... MasterCard... the banks... they all lose piles of money annually, yet say nothing, due to the negative marketing impact.
The DOJ's "Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again" deal with Mr. Softy amounts to a fart in a thunderstorm. The only real judge, jury, and executioner is the market. When people tell Billy G. to talk to the hand, we're not swallowing your latest lock-in scheme, regardless of the good aspects of the engineering and convenience offered, then we can see about real competition.
Only the market, by refusing to buy flawed products, can improve the QA of anyone.
Read: Note to Fry's...
Building computers from piece parts seems a good way to:
a) know what you've got under the hood
b) obviate this entire discussion about MicroShaft's business savvy, ethically deficient licensing 'practices'.
Not to Fry's Electronics: how about a store in the Northern Virginia area?
Maybe some day they will be able to do a brute-force speech analysis of 'Louie Louie' with all of those extra MHz.
The article is written at a very high level of abstraction. One huge unconsidered factor is the XBox, a sub-300$ computer whose effects on the market will be negligible (doubt it) or catastrophic. We'll see in a couple of years.
...educational... experience. 'T'sall good, I'll figure it out, but what a prolonged tooth extraction. C++ Builder under 'Doze this is not.
OTOH, between my RedHat 7.1 disks, the KDE 2/Qt Bible, and some downloads, I am still finding installing KDevelop an
It might lead us to the promised land where the application is what matters, not the OS, and the lame incompatibilities introduced by some companies in an anti-competitive spirit will bite them where they deserve it.
>better-than-STL STL-like functionality (linked > lists, hashes, and so on)
I haven't actually coded against Qt. My efforts at getting KDevelop installed have been... educational, but I hope to get there.
My experience coding against VCL in C++ Builder has been that platform-specific widget sets can be an annoyance. It seems a good practice to bias tool choice towards the Standard Library. This buys hope of portability and decreases time spent trying to learn Yet Another String Implementation.
Where is the business sense in that? I'd like to tinker around, get the cross platform product fully pimped out, and then pay for licensing just prior to roll-out. Such an approach would mitigate financial risk on my end, without effect on the Troll Tech revenue stream. Troll Tech, indeed.
Sure, Kylix, but how about C++ Builder?
Because the raw arrogance of M$ is only exceeded by that of the company's native country.
Why should Redmond condescend to admit ANY other markets exist, notwithstanding a transient period when they feign fair business practices prior to crushing all opposition?
Consider what they are doing with the XBox. Do you think any competition will exist in the gaming market in a couple of years? That baby runs an M$ OS, and the latest DirectX API. Developers will simultaneously target the console and desktop gaming markets.
And then you figure out that you can slap a monitor and keyboard on this thing and, HOLY BALLS! A sub-300$ computer! The HP/Compaq merger shall have seemed ahead of its time 'fore too long, I reckon.
Credit where due: M$ supports a whole lot more hardware and software configurations than anyone else. Perhaps their fascist, anti-competitive methods are the only way to approach that. Any additional annoyance that they can use to deter people from trying other OSs is money in Billy G.'s pocket.
My solution (and I admittedly only run one 'nux distro besides Lose98SE) was to buy some removable hard drive brackets (15$ apiece or so) and just have a dedicated 'nux drive. This was easy to do, since none of the mentioned OSs have any paranoia features requiring them to phone home after sufficient hardware configuration changes, the way LoseXP so sweetly promotes 'nux.
Finishing this bottom blow, Gates, Ballmer, Alchin: the sad thing is that there will always be sheep for your wolfish business practices.
Neener, neener, neener: you can't make me want to buy the game more than I already want to. Will they publish a Linux version, though?
Thank you for doing my thinking for me, your anonymousness.
The crowning irony is that these OEM tactics are brought to you by the same crafty fellas that told you Open Source is 'unAmerican'.
I freely admit to using M$ products. Truth is, they get the job done. At the same time, there is a growing interest in preserving some semblance of a 'market' in the IT industry, which is why I pursue Linux skills in my spare time.
Are we in danger of some benefit concerts for the small developer? Code Aid, featuring all of your usual country-rock suspects...
In terms of most annoying artificiality, the 'turn' concept is the hardest to get the mind around. Ships and aircraft have the capacity to move anywhere and attack A LOT of times in a 'turn'.
Having said that, you have to make some simplifications if you're going to bound the problem, enabling its solution.
Would calculating paths get more or less painful with a hex grid?
include a factor for raw, Orwellian fear that their need for continuous expansion triggers in the more conscious corners of the market? Will the resulting negative feedback from the marketplace prove far more devastating than any beating with the Sherman Anti-Trust stick?
.Net will virally market themselves.
MS has market diffusion through the OEM deals. So XP and
But Linux never looked so good. Thanks for the left-handed Linux campaingn, Billy G.
Cool. Please ask them when there will be a patch so that the jog dial can be used against the contact list, without triggering errors during synchs to an lookOut2000 .pst file through the Chapura conduit? Currently, you either access the contact with the flip down, then type it in by hand, or do a soft reset so that the contacts will synch again.
This is a tiny fly in an otherwise bitchen container of ointment.