That is a simple statement of logical fact. You see a chess board is is a geometric pattern and all 32 pices have pre difined abilities.
This quite simply makes chess a finite subject. Large and complex yess. But still finite. What this means is that eventualy we will be able to build a computer that can analize every chess move all the way to the eventual end of the game in order to NEVER make a move that can result in it lusing the game.
This is how computer tic-tac-toe players work now and a checkers computer can be built along these lines too. Sometime before desktops are as powerful as ASCII White This WILL hapen.
However in Jamaica imported used cares "diporteas" actualy outnumber new cars in anual sales. I boght a 1997 Toyota Corola last year and have had 0 problems with it. I boght it because my "pree purchase reserch" (I recomend this to everyone on every major purchase) showed that spare parts for this machine were at most 1/2 the price of spares for a new Model or any model from a diferent manufacturer.
I.e. The turn lamp is U$10 vs, U$25 for the nearest competitor (99 Nissan Sony).
Of course all this crap is probebly cheaper in the states because your government dosn't slap a 40% minimum duty on anything auto related.
For the record Peter's Aunt actualy spent a few years trying to link him up with "Mrs. Watson's doghter".
Peter in a display of testosterone poisoning wouldn't hear of it. How could your 60+ Aunt know anything about what kind of Girl you want/nead? Especialy if she didn't know you spent most of your time wandering the rooftops in tights:).
Not by a long shot. They are popular in the core "Apple zone" of Desktop Publishing.
I.e. Both major Newspaper houses and some of the minor ones use Macs. To remain compatible with them, Advertising agencies and Some Magazine publishers use a lot of Macs too.
However once you leave that narrow band you find very few Mac systems in use here. We have maybe 3 or 4 shops that actually sell Apple machines, versus about 100 selling PCs and stuff for PCs.
as an aside one area which is disproportionately important in Jamaica is Music production. Rummer has it that we have more musicians, Songwriters and Producers per square mile and Per capita than any other country. (I mean that literally. There is more new Reggae than New Country music each year.)
a lot of our producers do part of the work on PCs and occasionally release songs on purely synthetic rhythms.
All on White box PCs. That narrow area of Music production probably outdoes Macs.
I don't know the situation in the US or elsware but in Jamaica the #1 selling desktop by a huge margin is Dell. They actually have a market share in the 50% region. Next in line is Compaq at about 10% followed by all the local white box clones which share most of what's left.
Why the wide difference? Dell has an agreement with a local company to honor the Dell onsite warranty. This means that when your system goes down someone comes to your house with a spare part (after you talk to tech support on one of a very few 1-800 numbers which is free from Jamaica).
IBM, Gateway and most clones don't give you that so if you need that level of support you haven't really got a choice.
I still buy parts and asemble for 70% of the cost and just deal with the local wholesaler for the waranty on each individual part.
Remember that these are the same guys who had a hard time with Corba and had to invent DCOP and KPARTS.
I would say that KOffice being anywhere withing sight of the other Office suites is a prety strong testiment to the quality of the KDE Libraries and foundation.
Agreed. That discription dose not sound like something you attach to a BETA.
A BETA is software that the developers think might actualy be ready for the general public so they put it out on the street to let the general public prove them wrong.
This quote is something you attach to ALPHA software.
It's good to see someone can find a silver lineing, even in the death of one of the greatest shapers of human behavior in the modern world.
Chuck Jones defined the "cartoon Cartoon" as oposed to the
kids cartoon; Which is designed to not warp a child too much [Magic SchoolBus]
or the movie cartoon; like a live action feature but alowing special efects which would be deficult in live action. [Prince of Egypt]
or even the superhero cartoon. [transformers].
Nope a cartoon cartoon is one that's not good for your VCR because you keap rewinding to see just how stupid an expresion the character has when he realises he has been walking on air for some time and must now obay gravity.
Sounds like Apple, and Microsoft, and Cisco and HP at the start of their climb.
Of course when you get to 10K employeas and 200 products the manegers start to think they know what's hapening just by dealing with the 300 or so midle managers.
That last 1% compatibility may be the diference betwean what we have now and Office 95/97/2000/xp running better under wine than they do under Windows. It may be the little bit neaded to make 30 of the 50 most important Windows programs work.
So yes. they have an extreamly valid point. Unlike a lot of other projects, Wine _has_ sean people attempt to fork it in varius ways. Sometimes they cave in and submit the patches, other times that code is lost to the comunity.
You see with any emulation project the coding get's harder as it gets closer. The figure I herd was that the last 10% of compatibility was 90% of the work.
Aside from the usual @dose it run Linux?) I also want to know more detailed specs. Too bad the site is slashdoted beyond recovery. Anyone care to post info?
Sure you can go out and build a system with 2 19@ monitors for less but alas if you make a compatibility blunder it's all on you head. In other words if you are an artist or programer with limited hardware experience you should buy this rather than building your own.
"The Spy who shaged me" was an unexpected hit. It sort of snuck up on the market place and nocked down box offices. If the Bond owners had known it would be so big they would have cared.
This however is a sequel to a hit movie. The 1st rool of such sequels is that they don't have to be good to make oodles of money. This will be super popular even if it totaly sucks.
a dozen modern fighter jets and a few ground to air rockets could decimate the whole fleat of B52s overnight (that means droping 9 of the 92. look up "decimate":).
they could only do that if those damnd F14s didn't absolutly dominate the sky.
It only takes a 30 second news clip to show that B52s are the arial equivalent of the BFG-9000.
You know that clip where a huge B52 is escorted by a few F14s (Mosquitoes guarding the Teradoctile) and it drops a rain of bombs that never seams to end from it's cavernus gut.
Actualy I do understand fuly what I am talking about having been involved in free Software for the better part of a Decade.
GNU is not very pragmatic. It dosn't belive there is much of a place for proprietery software.
GNOME on the other hand thinks that the closed application has a definet roal to play in it's future.
It is this basic disagreement that caused the 1st tosle betwean GNU and GNOME some months ago. Simply regorgitating a few pages of GNU doctrin on the GNOME website dosn't change the facts of how the project actualy operates and what it actualy seaks to achive.
Forinstance. Being shiped with a future version of Solaris is considerd a major coop within the Gnome comunity. Ask around. To GNU that is an inconsequential side isue at best and at worst an atempt to undermine the free status of the project.
GNU and GNOME argue and disagree. Any true GNU project would recognise that the license is a major feature and by virtue of writing it RMS is a major contributer.
By declearing the Gnome a GNU project they have invited RMS into the iner circle of Gnome. By turning him away at this juncture they have shown an unreasonable change of heart.
Look at it this way. I can open a church and accept anyone I chuse and refuse anyone I chuse even if I preach the Catholic version of the gospel. (No comparitive thology please. It's important only in that diferent denominations have diferent interpritations for much of the bible) However if I open a Catholic church the Pope must ALWAYS be welcome and I can't alow my prists and nons to mary.
However they do it they really need to drop "GNU" from the name of the project. The rational is very simple. The GNU project has very clear and simple goals. The GNOME project also has clear and simple goals. These goals are not the same.
Not by a long shot. Gnome advocates will tell you of the plight of the pore shareware author who must develop his nifty new application for Gnome as the competing desktop is built on a GPLed library. GNU will tell you that the LGPL should only be applied to libraries that provide a function that is already available on other none free operating systems.
On an issue as basic as that, GNU and GNOME disagree. On whether a new proprietary application built on the Gnome foundation is worth mention in the main Gnome news source or promotion on the Gnome website the two organizations disagree.
However GNU was here 1st and its position and ideology have not changed significantly in years. Therefore it's op to Gnome to either conform to that position, change it from within the organization or get the hell out of an organization to which they don't truly belong.
The GNU way will not change. At least not this decade. Gnome will not abandon friendly corporations that happen to do proprietary apps for the platform (sometimes in conjunction with open apps). That leaves only option #3.
Gnome needs to stop calling itself a GNU project because quite frankly it is not. It is worth noting that other massive Open source projects don't have the sort of conflict with GNU that GNOME dose. The Linux Kernel. KDE. Xfree86 and many more. All of them do the on GNU like things GNOME has done but none bring out RMS' fury.
Simply because they don't use his pet project's name for marketing. Some don't even use his license but at least those who do honor the license enough to keep the goat at bay.
Most people don't know this but in the weekly kernel traphic he is usualy listed #1 in volume of messages. He also subscibes to and discuses important isues in many other places from slashdot.org to the kde-licensing mailing list.
BTW: Read his diary. That's how I found out that he is a GNU fundamentalist:). He also is a practical man in terms of software use. I.e. He still disputes Linus' edict that binary only kernel modules are alowed but at the same time he didn't force Telsa to switch to Linux right away. (She uses it now).
Speaking of Telsa. Her site "The more accurate diary. Really." should be requird reading for anyone dateing a Linux geek with serius intentions towards that geek.
I was paid in a single $500 bill for a job I performed on a Friday evening and fond myself with no other cash on Monday morning. (I keep very little cash for secrity reasons).
Fortunatly The bank tested it and I was able to get local curency within minutes.
The real question isn't whether it's feasible or not. The fact is that it may becoming inevitable. It won't be long before a $500 office printer can produce counterfeit currency that will fool anyone who doesn't have special equipment and at appear page cost that allows U$5 to be printed en mass.
The whole point of cash is that anyone can take a bill and know it's worth X amount. If high quality counterfeits become so prevalent that every other bill taken to the bank is a fake then it will mean a near collapse of the economy.
I.e. Rumors are still going around that using the government mint in one country to produce counterfeits that could then be dumped on an opposing state was considered as a possible military strategy in WW2. Too bad they all preferred TNT, C4 and Hydrogen bombs.
So as the cost and logistics of producing those counterfeits which fool the naked eye goes down the prevalence of cash alternatives will grow. Eventually businesses will start refusing to accept cash. I.e. In Jamaica most shops accept US, UK and Canadian money. However many will not take a US $500 bill because they don't know what a good one looks like.
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The sad thing is that they are.
Mostly indirectly throgh voting for bad candidates but also directly by being employed in high offices themselvs. Elected or otherwise.
I.e. In Jamaica there is a longstanding tradition of promoting the least competent senior party officer in parliment to the ministry of forign afairs because that keaps him out of truble.
Realy the important forign engagments are handled by the Minister of Finance or the PM, Trade and Torisim both have their own ministries etc...:)
PS: Even our Forign afairs minister isn't nearly that vulgar thogh.
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That is a simple statement of logical fact. You see a chess board is is a geometric pattern and all 32 pices have pre difined abilities.
This quite simply makes chess a finite subject. Large and complex yess. But still finite. What this means is that eventualy we will be able to build a computer that can analize every chess move all the way to the eventual end of the game in order to NEVER make a move that can result in it lusing the game.
This is how computer tic-tac-toe players work now and a checkers computer can be built along these lines too. Sometime before desktops are as powerful as ASCII White This WILL hapen.
Rust is a major problem hear too. Jamaica is an island after all and nothing suplies salt mud like a good sea breas on a rainy day.
And the engine prices sound about right. Except for Toyota engines. I can replace mine for U$350 or so.
Realy?
Where I live people rutinely replace engins.
However in Jamaica imported used cares "diporteas" actualy outnumber new cars in anual sales. I boght a 1997 Toyota Corola last year and have had 0 problems with it. I boght it because my "pree purchase reserch" (I recomend this to everyone on every major purchase) showed that spare parts for this machine were at most 1/2 the price of spares for a new Model or any model from a diferent manufacturer.
I.e. The turn lamp is U$10 vs, U$25 for the nearest competitor (99 Nissan Sony).
Of course all this crap is probebly cheaper in the states because your government dosn't slap a 40% minimum duty on anything auto related.
For the record Peter's Aunt actualy spent a few years trying to link him up with "Mrs. Watson's doghter".
:).
Peter in a display of testosterone poisoning wouldn't hear of it. How could your 60+ Aunt know anything about what kind of Girl you want/nead? Especialy if she didn't know you spent most of your time wandering the rooftops in tights
Yeah. AFTER I responded. :(
:)
I laughed so hard I couldn't respond
For the record, Jamaica dose produce the best wead (Cambodia also tries to claim that title) but it's still ilegal hear. Even more so than in the US.
I.e. MDs have truble trying to priscribe Ganja for cancer patients.
Apple ?
Not by a long shot. They are popular in the core "Apple zone" of Desktop Publishing.
I.e. Both major Newspaper houses and some of the minor ones use Macs. To remain compatible with them, Advertising agencies and Some Magazine publishers use a lot of Macs too.
However once you leave that narrow band you find very few Mac systems in use here. We have maybe 3 or 4 shops that actually sell Apple machines, versus about 100 selling PCs and stuff for PCs.
as an aside one area which is disproportionately important in Jamaica is Music production. Rummer has it that we have more musicians, Songwriters and Producers per square mile and Per capita than any other country. (I mean that literally. There is more new Reggae than New Country music each year.)
a lot of our producers do part of the work on PCs and occasionally release songs on purely synthetic rhythms.
All on White box PCs. That narrow area of Music production probably outdoes Macs.
I don't know the situation in the US or elsware but in Jamaica the #1 selling desktop by a huge margin is Dell. They actually have a market share in the 50% region. Next in line is Compaq at about 10% followed by all the local white box clones which share most of what's left.
Why the wide difference? Dell has an agreement with a local company to honor the Dell onsite warranty. This means that when your system goes down someone comes to your house with a spare part (after you talk to tech support on one of a very few 1-800 numbers which is free from Jamaica).
IBM, Gateway and most clones don't give you that so if you need that level of support you haven't really got a choice.
I still buy parts and asemble for 70% of the cost and just deal with the local wholesaler for the waranty on each individual part.
are they using supper tools.
Remember that these are the same guys who had a hard time with Corba and had to invent DCOP and KPARTS.
I would say that KOffice being anywhere withing sight of the other Office suites is a prety strong testiment to the quality of the KDE Libraries and foundation.
Agreed. That discription dose not sound like something you attach to a BETA.
A BETA is software that the developers think might actualy be ready for the general public so they put it out on the street to let the general public prove them wrong.
This quote is something you attach to ALPHA software.
It's good to see someone can find a silver lineing, even in the death of one of the greatest shapers of human behavior in the modern world.
Chuck Jones defined the "cartoon Cartoon" as oposed to the
kids cartoon; Which is designed to not warp a child too much [Magic SchoolBus]
or the movie cartoon; like a live action feature but alowing special efects which would be deficult in live action. [Prince of Egypt]
or even the superhero cartoon. [transformers].
Nope a cartoon cartoon is one that's not good for your VCR because you keap rewinding to see just how stupid an expresion the character has when he realises he has been walking on air for some time and must now obay gravity.
Sounds like Apple, and Microsoft, and Cisco and HP at the start of their climb.
Of course when you get to 10K employeas and 200 products the manegers start to think they know what's hapening just by dealing with the 300 or so midle managers.
You realy don't understand emulation.
That last 1% compatibility may be the diference betwean what we have now and Office 95/97/2000/xp running better under wine than they do under Windows. It may be the little bit neaded to make 30 of the 50 most important Windows programs work.
So yes. they have an extreamly valid point. Unlike a lot of other projects, Wine _has_ sean people attempt to fork it in varius ways. Sometimes they cave in and submit the patches, other times that code is lost to the comunity.
You see with any emulation project the coding get's harder as it gets closer. The figure I herd was that the last 10% of compatibility was 90% of the work.
I like vegans. :).
Some of my favorite foods are vegeterians
Aside from the usual @dose it run Linux?) I also want to know more detailed specs. Too bad the site is slashdoted beyond recovery. Anyone care to post info?
Sure you can go out and build a system with 2 19@ monitors for less but alas if you make a compatibility blunder it's all on you head. In other words if you are an artist or programer with limited hardware experience you should buy this rather than building your own.
"Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery" is not a direct spoof of any 007 movie title.
"The Spy who shaged me" was an unexpected hit. It sort of snuck up on the market place and nocked down box offices. If the Bond owners had known it would be so big they would have cared.
This however is a sequel to a hit movie. The 1st rool of such sequels is that they don't have to be good to make oodles of money. This will be super popular even if it totaly sucks.
This is so true.
:).
a dozen modern fighter jets and a few ground to air rockets could decimate the whole fleat of B52s overnight (that means droping 9 of the 92. look up "decimate"
they could only do that if those damnd F14s didn't absolutly dominate the sky.
Of course.
It only takes a 30 second news clip to show that B52s are the arial equivalent of the BFG-9000.
You know that clip where a huge B52 is escorted by a few F14s (Mosquitoes guarding the Teradoctile) and it drops a rain of bombs that never seams to end from it's cavernus gut.
Actualy I do understand fuly what I am talking about having been involved in free Software for the better part of a Decade.
GNU is not very pragmatic. It dosn't belive there is much of a place for proprietery software.
GNOME on the other hand thinks that the closed application has a definet roal to play in it's future.
It is this basic disagreement that caused the 1st tosle betwean GNU and GNOME some months ago. Simply regorgitating a few pages of GNU doctrin on the GNOME website dosn't change the facts of how the project actualy operates and what it actualy seaks to achive.
Forinstance. Being shiped with a future version of Solaris is considerd a major coop within the Gnome comunity. Ask around. To GNU that is an inconsequential side isue at best and at worst an atempt to undermine the free status of the project.
GNU and GNOME argue and disagree. Any true GNU project would recognise that the license is a major feature and by virtue of writing it RMS is a major contributer.
By declearing the Gnome a GNU project they have invited RMS into the iner circle of Gnome. By turning him away at this juncture they have shown an unreasonable change of heart.
Look at it this way. I can open a church and accept anyone I chuse and refuse anyone I chuse even if I preach the Catholic version of the gospel. (No comparitive thology please. It's important only in that diferent denominations have diferent interpritations for much of the bible) However if I open a Catholic church the Pope must ALWAYS be welcome and I can't alow my prists and nons to mary.
It realy is that simple.
Or "Good Network Object Model Environment".
However they do it they really need to drop "GNU" from the name of the project. The rational is very simple. The GNU project has very clear and simple goals. The GNOME project also has clear and simple goals. These goals are not the same.
Not by a long shot. Gnome advocates will tell you of the plight of the pore shareware author who must develop his nifty new application for Gnome as the competing desktop is built on a GPLed library. GNU will tell you that the LGPL should only be applied to libraries that provide a function that is already available on other none free operating systems.
On an issue as basic as that, GNU and GNOME disagree. On whether a new proprietary application built on the Gnome foundation is worth mention in the main Gnome news source or promotion on the Gnome website the two organizations disagree.
However GNU was here 1st and its position and ideology have not changed significantly in years. Therefore it's op to Gnome to either conform to that position, change it from within the organization or get the hell out of an organization to which they don't truly belong.
The GNU way will not change. At least not this decade. Gnome will not abandon friendly corporations that happen to do proprietary apps for the platform (sometimes in conjunction with open apps). That leaves only option #3.
Gnome needs to stop calling itself a GNU project because quite frankly it is not. It is worth noting that other massive Open source projects don't have the sort of conflict with GNU that GNOME dose. The Linux Kernel. KDE. Xfree86 and many more. All of them do the on GNU like things GNOME has done but none bring out RMS' fury.
Simply because they don't use his pet project's name for marketing. Some don't even use his license but at least those who do honor the license enough to keep the goat at bay.
Always has. Always will (I hope).
:). He also is a practical man in terms of software use. I.e. He still disputes Linus' edict that binary only kernel modules are alowed but at the same time he didn't force Telsa to switch to Linux right away. (She uses it now).
Most people don't know this but in the weekly kernel traphic he is usualy listed #1 in volume of messages. He also subscibes to and discuses important isues in many other places from slashdot.org to the kde-licensing mailing list.
BTW: Read his diary. That's how I found out that he is a GNU fundamentalist
Speaking of Telsa. Her site "The more accurate diary. Really." should be requird reading for anyone dateing a Linux geek with serius intentions towards that geek.
For the record I discoverd this the hard way.
I was paid in a single $500 bill for a job I performed on a Friday evening and fond myself with no other cash on Monday morning. (I keep very little cash for secrity reasons).
Fortunatly The bank tested it and I was able to get local curency within minutes.
The real question isn't whether it's feasible or not. The fact is that it may becoming inevitable. It won't be long before a $500 office printer can produce counterfeit currency that will fool anyone who doesn't have special equipment and at appear page cost that allows U$5 to be printed en mass.
The whole point of cash is that anyone can take a bill and know it's worth X amount. If high quality counterfeits become so prevalent that every other bill taken to the bank is a fake then it will mean a near collapse of the economy.
I.e. Rumors are still going around that using the government mint in one country to produce counterfeits that could then be dumped on an opposing state was considered as a possible military strategy in WW2. Too bad they all preferred TNT, C4 and Hydrogen bombs.
So as the cost and logistics of producing those counterfeits which fool the naked eye goes down the prevalence of cash alternatives will grow. Eventually businesses will start refusing to accept cash. I.e. In Jamaica most shops accept US, UK and Canadian money. However many will not take a US $500 bill because they don't know what a good one looks like.
The sad thing is that they are.
:)
Mostly indirectly throgh voting for bad candidates but also directly by being employed in high offices themselvs. Elected or otherwise.
I.e. In Jamaica there is a longstanding tradition of promoting the least competent senior party officer in parliment to the ministry of forign afairs because that keaps him out of truble.
Realy the important forign engagments are handled by the Minister of Finance or the PM, Trade and Torisim both have their own ministries etc...
PS: Even our Forign afairs minister isn't nearly that vulgar thogh.