I remember playing a version of this for DOS quite some time ago... it had a lot more commands, including I think 3 weapons, the ability to warp, and both ships looked very different from each other.. one looked sort of like /--\ | / |O- | \ \--/
While I imagine equally optimized code would find this claim perfectly true, Perl gives you a lot of optimization for free, optimization that's hard to do in C. Things like hashing and good string support are not inherent in C, and many developers would just use C-strings as-is and linear associative arrays, and in the case of strings need to write quite complicated things to do good text manipulation, things that very often are slower than Perl's internal string implementation (and often buggy too). So...
Yes, Perl has added compile time and interpretive penalties, but often the better algorithms that you end up writing in Perl will end up faster than in C, and so there are many times Perl will turn out much faster unless you're really taking a lot of time to optimize your C.
I used to use a Red Dwarf naming convention.. Now I'm on MST3k... but if I ever need to start a new network that could get big, I'll use Pokemon names -- 151 (or more) names should work for at least a class C subnet:)
kryten - IP Masquerading/Internet Junkbuster gw holly - Old main workstation, PPro200 forrester - New main workstation, Alpha533 cat - Auxillary workstation, Alpha166 toaster - Bed workstation, NeXTTurboMono frank - Laptop, iBook erhardt - Large noisy toy, PDP/11
I don't care about tracking. I visit websites with smut on them sometimes. It's not a secret. A lot of people do it. But advertisements drive me nuts. Targeted ads, untargeted ads, I don't want to see them. It's my computer, and I'm quite happy that filtering proxies give me control over what I see. I'm not out to kill websites, I'm not out to save them. I'm going to use them, and I'll contribute back to the Internet as I see fit. It's not a productive use of my time or computer resources or screen space to stick animated banners all over websites I visit. It makes my browser burn more cycles, and I never visit them anyhow. I might as well not see them, and I don't. As to there being no other way to make money on the internet, get this: I DON'T CARE. I really don't. You live with it. Commercialization is killing usenet, and I'd be very happy to see less money being tossed around on the net, especially if it meant fewer banner ads. :P
You can configure cookies on a per-site basis. I think I let slashdot, amazon, and maybe borders cookies through, and no others...
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I'm not part of the mac crowd. My iBook is my first Macintosh hardware, among a family of PCs, alphas, a NeXT, a PDP-11, yaddayadda. I just didn't understand what he was saying.
Mice are small. The purpose of a notebook is portability, right? I'm sure it'd be smaller than the wacky power adapter that comes with the iBook, and I carry that around with me:)
I think I recall seeing a USB 3-button mouse you could hook up to the iBook somewhere...
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Are you criticizing the MacOS or the hardware? After all, my Alpha or any of my PCs arn't inherently more or less stable or secure than the others. Why would Linux/PPC be any different than Linux/Alpha or Linux/x86 WRT security or stability?
Well, this is my first Mac, and I'm a Linux geek. Let's see... it's joining a family of: a NeXT running NeXTStep 4.2 2 Alphas running Linux 2 relatively modern x86s running Linux a PDP-11 running RSX-11 a Newton that I'm going to give to one of my sisters for college (running NewtonOS 2.1) 2 ancient x86s (pre386) running CP/M and DOS a Nintendo64 running.. err.. nevermind
Anyhow, why the iBook? Well, I got an eMate some time ago to replace a laptop that died, and it was really great (long battery life), but it was too slow. It didn't keep up with my typing, and I wanted a machine I could compile stuff on, run Perl, and have nice networking built-in. So... I looked at all the laptops I could get a good price on, and the iBook pretty much ended up at the head of the list. It's fast, it's fairly cheap, it has a nice display, it has built-in 100Mbps ethernet, and I thought it would run OSX until Linux got ported.
Alas, OSX doesn't run on the iBook yet, so I'm dealing with MacOS currently (Thank goodness someone ported vim to MacOS). I've written a Unixlike shell in Perl to help me manage files (well, am writing, rather), but at least I can play Bolo:)
Anyhow, once Linux understands the iBook's ethernet hardware, I'll be very very quickly running Linux on it. One of the nicest things about Linux is you can be hardware agnostic:)
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They're so numerous you can't mention any:) Anyhow, there are ways to use MacOS fonts under linux...
It doesn't have ethernet support yet, and it's rather experimental. He just got it to boot within the last few days. So... I don't think that sticking it up as a supported platform on linuxppc.org is a good idea yet.
These things you claim are universal just happen to be things that are enforced in all cultures you are familiar with. And even then, there are several cultures that are (or were) very different (e.g. Aztecs and several other primitive cultures) Murder as you state it isn't specific enough to be considered much proof for the existance of a universal morality -- you're unable to make it anything more than a loose category, one tied to a biological imperative natural to the species.
I guess that makes sense... Loss of empathy or the ability to predict the reactions of others could lead to what they probably mean when they say that.
The article mentions some people who have "lost the ability to tell right from wrong" through neurological damange. As right and wrong are subjective classifications, I wonder what exactly they mean by that. Could they mean losing the abililty to empathize with others?
1) Intel doesn't want to deal with a monopoly -- dealing with Microsoft has meant that MS had the ability to force Intel to do almost anything MS wants...
2) Intel wants to corrupt the opensource revolution to make it easier for companies to make profits from selling software. Intel's doing this both on behalf of its business partners as well as itself
3) Redhat is committed to crossplatform support. Intel stands a better chance of making dominant the platforms they choose from a company they raise to greatness themself. This is especially helpful when they can make unavailable software for other platforms, especially by weakening the open source movement while helping the linux movement.
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It'd be really neat if we could find the original :)
author and see if we could get the source.. we
could port it to X and make it support network
play
I remember playing a version of this for DOS
quite some time ago... it had a lot more
commands, including I think 3 weapons, the
ability to warp, and both ships looked very
different from each other.. one looked sort of
like
/--\
| /
|O-
| \
\--/
So I used CVS to snag the code about 4 days ago.
Heh.
While I imagine equally optimized code would find
this claim perfectly true, Perl gives you a lot
of optimization for free, optimization that's
hard to do in C. Things like hashing and
good string support are not inherent in C, and
many developers would just use C-strings as-is
and linear associative arrays, and in the case
of strings need to write quite complicated things
to do good text manipulation, things that very
often are slower than Perl's internal string
implementation (and often buggy too). So...
Yes, Perl has added compile time and interpretive
penalties, but often the better algorithms that
you end up writing in Perl will end up faster
than in C, and so there are many times Perl will
turn out much faster unless you're really taking
a lot of time to optimize your C.
Perl doesn't do it that way exactly. It compiles
the entire script into bytecode and then
executes that. True interpretation is
significantly slower.
Does the installer support FTP or NFS installs?
I used to use a Red Dwarf naming convention.. :)
Now I'm on MST3k... but if I ever need to start
a new network that could get big, I'll use
Pokemon names -- 151 (or more) names should work
for at least a class C subnet
kryten - IP Masquerading/Internet Junkbuster gw
holly - Old main workstation, PPro200
forrester - New main workstation, Alpha533
cat - Auxillary workstation, Alpha166
toaster - Bed workstation, NeXTTurboMono
frank - Laptop, iBook
erhardt - Large noisy toy, PDP/11
I also have 2 unnamed 8086 machines...
They probably wern't thinking very much when they :)
defined "programmers" for the purposes of the
poll
I don't care about tracking. I visit websites
with smut on them sometimes. It's not a secret.
A lot of people do it. But advertisements drive
me nuts. Targeted ads, untargeted ads, I don't
want to see them. It's my computer, and I'm
quite happy that filtering proxies give me control
over what I see. I'm not out to kill websites,
I'm not out to save them. I'm going to use them,
and I'll contribute back to the Internet as I see
fit. It's not a productive use of my time or
computer resources or screen space to stick
animated banners all over websites I visit. It
makes my browser burn more cycles, and I never
visit them anyhow. I might as well not see them,
and I don't. As to there being no other way
to make money on the internet, get this:
I DON'T CARE. I really don't. You live with it.
Commercialization is killing usenet, and I'd be
very happy to see less money being tossed around
on the net, especially if it meant fewer banner
ads.
:P
You can configure cookies on a per-site basis.
I think I let slashdot, amazon, and maybe
borders cookies through, and no others...
I'm not part of the mac crowd. My iBook is my
first Macintosh hardware, among a family of PCs,
alphas, a NeXT, a PDP-11, yaddayadda. I just
didn't understand what he was saying.
Mice are small. The purpose of a notebook is :)
portability, right? I'm sure it'd be smaller
than the wacky power adapter that comes with
the iBook, and I carry that around with me
I think I recall seeing a USB 3-button mouse you
could hook up to the iBook somewhere...
Are you criticizing the MacOS or the hardware?
After all, my Alpha or any of my PCs arn't
inherently more or less stable or secure than
the others. Why would Linux/PPC be any different
than Linux/Alpha or Linux/x86 WRT security
or stability?
Well, this is my first Mac, and I'm a Linux geek. .. err.. nevermind
:)
:)
Let's see... it's joining a family of:
a NeXT running NeXTStep 4.2
2 Alphas running Linux
2 relatively modern x86s running Linux
a PDP-11 running RSX-11
a Newton that I'm going to give to one of my
sisters for college (running NewtonOS 2.1)
2 ancient x86s (pre386) running CP/M and DOS
a Nintendo64 running
Anyhow, why the iBook? Well, I got an eMate some
time ago to replace a laptop that died, and it
was really great (long battery life), but it
was too slow. It didn't keep up with my typing,
and I wanted a machine I could compile stuff on,
run Perl, and have nice networking built-in.
So... I looked at all the laptops I could get
a good price on, and the iBook pretty much
ended up at the head of the list. It's fast,
it's fairly cheap, it has a nice display, it has
built-in 100Mbps ethernet, and I thought it would
run OSX until Linux got ported.
Alas, OSX doesn't run on the iBook yet, so I'm
dealing with MacOS currently (Thank goodness
someone ported vim to MacOS). I've written a
Unixlike shell in Perl to help me manage files
(well, am writing, rather), but at least I can
play Bolo
Anyhow, once Linux understands the iBook's
ethernet hardware, I'll be very very quickly
running Linux on it. One of the nicest things
about Linux is you can be hardware agnostic
They're so numerous you can't mention any :)
Anyhow, there are ways to use MacOS fonts
under linux...
It doesn't have ethernet support yet, and it's
rather experimental. He just got it to boot
within the last few days. So... I don't think
that sticking it up as a supported platform on
linuxppc.org is a good idea yet.
These things you claim are universal just happen
to be things that are enforced in all cultures
you are familiar with. And even then, there are
several cultures that are (or were) very different
(e.g. Aztecs and several other primitive cultures)
Murder as you state it isn't specific enough to
be considered much proof for the existance of
a universal morality -- you're unable to make it
anything more than a loose category, one tied to
a biological imperative natural to the species.
I guess that makes sense... Loss of empathy or
the ability to predict the reactions of others
could lead to what they probably mean when they
say that.
Don't give me this crap about how right is
objective.. Isn't that a clever argument? Feh.
The article mentions some people who have
"lost the ability to tell right from wrong"
through neurological damange. As right and
wrong are subjective classifications, I wonder
what exactly they mean by that. Could they mean
losing the abililty to empathize with others?
A version that uses Apple's Airport wireless :)
networking would be spiffy
Neat article, but did anyone understand what the
heck they were trying to say with the Lion story
at the end?
Yeah! The Beerbarrel polka, "Bubbles in the
Wine" (not really a polka exactly), Weird Al's
polka medleys, and a few others.
1) Intel doesn't want to deal with a monopoly --
dealing with Microsoft has meant that MS had
the ability to force Intel to do almost anything
MS wants...
2) Intel wants to corrupt the opensource
revolution to make it easier for companies to
make profits from selling software. Intel's doing
this both on behalf of its business partners as
well as itself
3) Redhat is committed to crossplatform support.
Intel stands a better chance of making dominant
the platforms they choose from a company they
raise to greatness themself. This is especially
helpful when they can make unavailable software
for other platforms, especially by weakening the
open source movement while helping the linux
movement.