Yep - I've never jumped in on an RMS thread before either, but I hafta agree with him here. It's odd that they've banded together to increase market share, and are now flirting with the licensing concept that kept Caldera from getting any market share in the first place.
I hope RedHat and Mandrake and Slack and (insert you distro here) avoid this like the black plague. It's unfortunate, SuSE is a really nice distro. I hope they don't shoot themselves in the foot here.
We use AppleWorks, Applixware and StarOffice at home. The M$ filters run fairly well on all of them. However, how is AppleWorks considered cross-platform?
The suggestion of SO on windows and *then* start moving to Linux is a good one.
All the numbers provided in the 2 linked articles show that the impersonal, inaccurrate cameras do nothing to increase safety, and actually exacerbate the problem.
Cameras and automated equipment are not a way to solve traffic safety issues (seek out the info from the ITE, an independent party) - they only generate revenue for localities, states and thrice-damned car insurance companies.
According to the numbers provided in the linked articles, your chances of being pulverised in an intersection by a red-light runner or speeder are much greater where these cameras are used, and no policemen (or policewomen) are present A 3rd party (Lockheed) installing and maitaining the equipment, issuing the tickets and sharing the resulting revenue with the State is *not* the answer.
And I still don't understand why any NYSDMV was left out of the lower bits of The Divine Comedy. Hmmm... NYSDMV trolls buried up to their heads.... ah, sweet gratfication.
... and give me linux drivers and I'd buy one. I'd keep my nVidia(s) around, in the same case, for games though. The video editing would be nice and worth the cash.
Since IBM started slapping the snot out of Sun in the server market, Sun has pulled alot of their fab work (that was previously done by IBM) away to try and give them less business.
We started using bnetd to play starcraft because, unlike battle.net, it didn't suck. 4 people on a server (with legitimate copies) sure beat the snot out of 80,000 on a server which split and lagged all the time.
Bad move Blizzard, or Vivendi, or whoever. Oh well, I wasn't gonna buy Warcraft II anyway so it's not like they lost *my* business. And my copy of bnetd works fine (as does StarCraft in WinE)...
One of the hardest things we all need to learn when starting out with HDL is that we're not programming - we're building hardware and arrays of gates. Having done a *lot* of C and applications programming before I started on VHDL and Verilog I can tell you it took a while to shake off the programmer in me and become a hardware developer. Applying general-purpose programming tactics to HDL too often makes too many gates and highly inefficient chip and logic layouts.
Both VHDL and Verilog have their strengths - you'll get used to them. Especially if you have to sit down and hand-tewak the resultant logic aftewards... Verilog is easier to write, but VHDL is (seems) more typesafe and is easier to debug.
I've been using Applixware (and now Anyware) for a couple years now. It's thin, stable and full-featured and saves its files in plain text I believe. Also, it's never crashed on me. Not even once. I use it for all my docs at work, on AIX and Linux.
Basically, you got your $200 back but you don't get your time back, and very likely your solving these problems didn't benefit anyone else with the same problem.
that to me is the best part about free software. if a bug or snag is found anywhere it's easily found via google newsgroup search. who the hell wants to call tech support?
After beating on IBM's SOI technology they finally figured out a way to manufacture SOI on their own. This new "breakthrough" isn't, they just caught up (finally) on the manufacturing side and decided to try to put a super-hyper-creative spin on it.
hehe - not a troll - I spied this link this afternoon at work when I was too busy to pay attention. I got home, performed cranial-rectal extraction, looked around the ifarchive and figured it out.
Just what the galloping shitburger is a *.z5 file? I wanted to download the game and check it out but, well, hehe - what to do with it? Is it compressed?
Ardour is a great package. I've used audacity as well but I think Ardour is (will be) more suited to professional studio work.
And even though their web-page has a really offensive Explorer-type look, the HME audio cards work really well, from what I've been told. It will be a year or so before I can afford one...
Actually, people would want the source to Office to get the ability to seamlessly export/import Office docs so all he Office-junkies could use other apps (plug: try Applixware). Also, openin the source to wDOS is the *only* way the os will ever be secured and have its holes properly patched.
Disagree strongly. As a citizen in a country with a (theoretically) representative government, who uses my tax dollars to wage war, I deserve full and complete disclosure of all information leading the aforementioned governement to take any military action. The fact that the US president can declare war without consent from the American people (via plebiscite or something else) is extremely dangerous.
No, I'm not anti-military - I prefer a measured a pproach, ratified by the American people.
And no, the American President is not more qualified than I am to make this decsion.
Full and complete disclosure of everything, then let us (that's US) make the choice.
Damn secretive fruitcake! Sorry 'bout the OT post.
People requiring an optimised compiler for x86 will be happy to pay for it. Cheap clustering and ease of maitenance is pushing linux more and more into the calculations world, sheer data-crunching for physcial and electrical models and what not. gcc is a great compiler, but it seems less than optimized relative to (say) Metware on a PowerPC box. It doesnt always generate fast code.
The more commercial apps for linux the better! I've already spent more money on software (applix, games) than before I switched to a free opsys.
And at work we spend lots (*lots*) of money on number-crunching software for linux...
Do you think this will change if/when the US economy picks back up? We don't have DSL in my area and I'm forced to buy Cable service from the Time-Warner monopoly which limits my upload bandwidth and blocks port 25 on me!
DSL's speed is a little slower (I think) but with the BW cap by TW it doesn't matter. Do DSL co's block port 25? I've been waiting for an alternative to Time-Warner cable for a long time...it's looking bleak....
With the AThlon/TBird line kicking ass (and taking names) all over the P4 I hope sheer market size (Intel) doesnt survive over sheer engineering acumen (AMD).
Hopefully AMD will survive this, and so will the rest of us. I have friends from school who work(ed) at the Austin plant - I'll have to check up on them.
I'm gonna super-glue my ass to the chair in my office, just in case this happens to me;-)
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Yep - I've never jumped in on an RMS thread before either, but I hafta agree with him here. It's odd that they've banded together to increase market share, and are now flirting with the licensing concept that kept Caldera from getting any market share in the first place.
I hope RedHat and Mandrake and Slack and (insert you distro here) avoid this like the black plague. It's unfortunate, SuSE is a really nice distro. I hope they don't shoot themselves in the foot here.
JB
Try kapital:
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kapital
My girfriend loves it, I prefer a good spreadsheet (Applix)...
JB
n/m - I just looked on the AppleWorks site - I didn't know there was a win32 version - not that I have any use for it, mind you ;-)
We use AppleWorks, Applixware and StarOffice at home. The M$ filters run fairly well on all of them. However, how is AppleWorks considered cross-platform?
The suggestion of SO on windows and *then* start moving to Linux is a good one.
JB
All the numbers provided in the 2 linked articles show that the impersonal, inaccurrate cameras do nothing to increase safety, and actually exacerbate the problem.
... NYSDMV trolls buried up to their heads .... ah, sweet gratfication.
Cameras and automated equipment are not a way to solve traffic safety issues (seek out the info from the ITE, an independent party) - they only generate revenue for localities, states and thrice-damned car insurance companies.
According to the numbers provided in the linked articles, your chances of being pulverised in an intersection by a red-light runner or speeder are much greater where these cameras are used, and no policemen (or policewomen) are present A 3rd party (Lockheed) installing and maitaining the equipment, issuing the tickets and sharing the resulting revenue with the State is *not* the answer.
And I still don't understand why any NYSDMV was left out of the lower bits of The Divine Comedy. Hmmm
JB
... and give me linux drivers and I'd buy one. I'd keep my nVidia(s) around, in the same case, for games though. The video editing would be nice and worth the cash.
Since IBM started slapping the snot out of Sun in the server market, Sun has pulled alot of their fab work (that was previously done by IBM) away to try and give them less business.
Somebody needs to point Intel to the Cranial-Rectal-Extraction-HOWTO - the mini-HOWTO doesn't seem to have helped them much ...
I meant " I wasn't gonna buy Warcraft III" - WarCraft II just might be my favorite game of all times. It also runs fine in WiNE.
We started using bnetd to play starcraft because, unlike battle.net, it didn't suck. 4 people on a server (with legitimate copies) sure beat the snot out of 80,000 on a server which split and lagged all the time.
Bad move Blizzard, or Vivendi, or whoever. Oh well, I wasn't gonna buy Warcraft II anyway so it's not like they lost *my* business. And my copy of bnetd works fine (as does StarCraft in WinE)...
JB
One of the hardest things we all need to learn when starting out with HDL is that we're not programming - we're building hardware and arrays of gates. Having done a *lot* of C and applications programming before I started on VHDL and Verilog I can tell you it took a while to shake off the programmer in me and become a hardware developer. Applying general-purpose programming tactics to HDL too often makes too many gates and highly inefficient chip and logic layouts.
... Verilog is easier to write, but VHDL is (seems) more typesafe and is easier to debug.
Both VHDL and Verilog have their strengths - you'll get used to them. Especially if you have to sit down and hand-tewak the resultant logic aftewards
I've been using Applixware (and now Anyware) for a couple years now. It's thin, stable and full-featured and saves its files in plain text I believe. Also, it's never crashed on me. Not even once. I use it for all my docs at work, on AIX and Linux.
HTH - JB
Yep - I've been playing Kohan online non-stop for about 3 months now - I love RTS games and this is a good one. Rune is also a blast!
Basically, you got your $200 back but you don't get your time back, and very likely your solving these problems didn't benefit anyone else with the same problem.
that to me is the best part about free software. if a bug or snag is found anywhere it's easily found via google newsgroup search. who the hell wants to call tech support?
After beating on IBM's SOI technology they finally figured out a way to manufacture SOI on their own. This new "breakthrough" isn't, they just caught up (finally) on the manufacturing side and decided to try to put a super-hyper-creative spin on it.
...
Stick with AMD and PPC chips
hehe - not a troll - I spied this link this afternoon at work when I was too busy to pay attention. I got home, performed cranial-rectal extraction, looked around the ifarchive and figured it out.
--jb
Just what the galloping shitburger is a *.z5 file? I wanted to download the game and check it out but, well, hehe - what to do with it? Is it compressed?
--jb
Ardour is a great package. I've used audacity as well but I think Ardour is (will be) more suited to professional studio work.
And even though their web-page has a really offensive Explorer-type look, the HME audio cards work really well, from what I've been told. It will be a year or so before I can afford one...
Apple. Windows is way more versitile.
not any more.
Actually, people would want the source to Office to get the ability to seamlessly export/import Office docs so all he Office-junkies could use other apps (plug: try Applixware). Also, openin the source to wDOS is the *only* way the os will ever be secured and have its holes properly patched.
Disagree strongly. As a citizen in a country with a (theoretically) representative government, who uses my tax dollars to wage war, I deserve full and complete disclosure of all information leading the aforementioned governement to take any military action. The fact that the US president can declare war without consent from the American people (via plebiscite or something else) is extremely dangerous.
No, I'm not anti-military - I prefer a measured a pproach, ratified by the American people.
And no, the American President is not more qualified than I am to make this decsion.
Full and complete disclosure of everything, then let us (that's US) make the choice.
Damn secretive fruitcake! Sorry 'bout the OT post.
We could really use a PowerPC-optimised compiler for linux at work. ooooo optimised G4 oooooooooooo ...
People requiring an optimised compiler for x86 will be happy to pay for it. Cheap clustering and ease of maitenance is pushing linux more and more into the calculations world, sheer data-crunching for physcial and electrical models and what not. gcc is a great compiler, but it seems less than optimized relative to (say) Metware on a PowerPC box. It doesnt always generate fast code.
The more commercial apps for linux the better! I've already spent more money on software (applix, games) than before I switched to a free opsys. And at work we spend lots (*lots*) of money on number-crunching software for linux...
Do you think this will change if/when the US economy picks back up? We don't have DSL in my area and I'm forced to buy Cable service from the Time-Warner monopoly which limits my upload bandwidth and blocks port 25 on me!
DSL's speed is a little slower (I think) but with the BW cap by TW it doesn't matter. Do DSL co's block port 25? I've been waiting for an alternative to Time-Warner cable for a long time...it's looking bleak....
With the AThlon/TBird line kicking ass (and taking names) all over the P4 I hope sheer market size (Intel) doesnt survive over sheer engineering acumen (AMD).
;-)
Hopefully AMD will survive this, and so will the rest of us. I have friends from school who work(ed) at the Austin plant - I'll have to check up on them.
I'm gonna super-glue my ass to the chair in my office, just in case this happens to me