So, what's really the difference between a Unix variant like Linux and any Windows OS? It's that Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage in a patch-and-kludge upgrade process until the code becomes so bloated, slow and unreliable that wholesale replacement is again called for.
As opposed to Unix, where the design is so open and extensible that anything is possible, yet there is no coherent interface and none of the non-server applications work or look as good as they do on Macintosh or Windows.
My inexperience in the console business does not change the fact that predictions are just that -- predictions. Not facts. A fact is true. Predictions can be true, or false. A fact cannot be false.
Sure, the PS3 might kick ass -- once it's released. Before that, it's all smoke and pundits.
Those sales do nothing to compensate the owners of the rights of those ROMs.
If the ROMs were available from the companies who own the rights to production, then downloading the ROMs could be considered piracy. This is not the case, though, and from the copyright owner's perspective, eBaying the ROMs and downloading them are the same.
For people not far from the MA/NH border where it meets the Pond, Hampton Beach and Salisbury Beach have large numbers of old arcade machines ripe for the playing. They've got the standards (Pac Man, Centipede, Galaga, Pole Position, Asteroid, etc) as well as some more obscure titles like Subroc 3D.
It's worth the trip, as long as white trash doesn't bother you.
You can do whatever you want within a subroutine, use whatever style you want, and as long as you **DOCUMENT** exactly what the subroutine expects as input and returns as output, future users of your code are in the clear.
99% of complaints about Perl programs disappear completely if the code is properly documented. If not, then yeah, you're fucked -- but you'd be just as fucked in Python, Java, C++, Lisp, Fortran or VB.
The only reason anyone writes a virus these days is to do it. Even when there's an added payload (like a DDOS to www.sco.com), the virus is out there solely to be out there. The fact that it's due to rivaling gangs makes perfect sense.
If someone were to write a truly destructive virus (you open it, it sends itself to everyone in your inbox, then promptly writes random data over your hard drive) then we'd really see people start to take viruses seriously.
Even the most "destructive" viruses in recent history have wimped out in some way -- just consider Michelangelo, which was hard-coded to become destructive at a much later date, long after it would be discovered and patches written.
I prefer Linux on the server and Windows and Office on the desktop. It has nothing to do with politics, cost, freedom or anything else. It has to do with what I am comfortable using.
Because they can't hack it, that's why. It's a politically unpopular thing to say and will get me modded down for sure, but it's the elephant in the corner: girls just plain suck at online games where coordination and speed is a factor (like Quake; unlike EQ).
If you dislike Red Hat and Debian so much that you are willing to use Gentoo just to avoid their god-awful package systems, you should try NetBSD or FreeBSD. Pkgsrc (NetBSD)/Ports (FreeBSD) is the best package system around -- try it and see what it's like to use a modern software management system.
...that there are perhaps 20x fewer people who care about the outcome of this story, than those who care about the recent troubles with goatse.cx. So why not post a story on goatse.cx and keep your users happy?
No -- not a troll, not offtopic, not flamebaiting. There's just no other forum to ask a question like this, so I do it here.
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Many of the applications have outstanding interfaces, like the GIMP and OpenOffice.org.
Those interfaces stand out to me, because they are so second-rate that it makes me want to cry.
They are both fine programs -- don't get me wrong -- but they pale in comparison to the programs they seek to emulate (Photoshop and MS Office).
So, what's really the difference between a Unix variant like Linux and any Windows OS? It's that Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage in a patch-and-kludge upgrade process until the code becomes so bloated, slow and unreliable that wholesale replacement is again called for.
As opposed to Unix, where the design is so open and extensible that anything is possible, yet there is no coherent interface and none of the non-server applications work or look as good as they do on Macintosh or Windows.
Perl is now completely ubiquitous, and much more suited to scripting than /bin/sh. Why settle for anything less?
My inexperience in the console business does not change the fact that predictions are just that -- predictions. Not facts. A fact is true. Predictions can be true, or false. A fact cannot be false.
Sure, the PS3 might kick ass -- once it's released. Before that, it's all smoke and pundits.
Copyright owners do not usually get revenue from second-hand market, nor they should have any right to. Or am i missing something?
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Don't think you're missing anything -- we're in agreement.
Until the battle occurs.
I can predict anything. Doesn't make it true.
Those sales do nothing to compensate the owners of the rights of those ROMs.
If the ROMs were available from the companies who own the rights to production, then downloading the ROMs could be considered piracy. This is not the case, though, and from the copyright owner's perspective, eBaying the ROMs and downloading them are the same.
Is it really piracy, when the ROMs are unavailable through other means?
For people not far from the MA/NH border where it meets the Pond, Hampton Beach and Salisbury Beach have large numbers of old arcade machines ripe for the playing. They've got the standards (Pac Man, Centipede, Galaga, Pole Position, Asteroid, etc) as well as some more obscure titles like Subroc 3D.
It's worth the trip, as long as white trash doesn't bother you.
These tables were quite common in the early 80's. Space Invaders, Centipede, Pac Man, you name it.
Comments, comments, comments.
You can do whatever you want within a subroutine, use whatever style you want, and as long as you **DOCUMENT** exactly what the subroutine expects as input and returns as output, future users of your code are in the clear.
99% of complaints about Perl programs disappear completely if the code is properly documented. If not, then yeah, you're fucked -- but you'd be just as fucked in Python, Java, C++, Lisp, Fortran or VB.
Television is a Motion Picture.
And legally, the MPAA doesn't control anything. They're a lobbying group. They control things illegally.
The only reason anyone writes a virus these days is to do it. Even when there's an added payload (like a DDOS to www.sco.com), the virus is out there solely to be out there. The fact that it's due to rivaling gangs makes perfect sense.
If someone were to write a truly destructive virus (you open it, it sends itself to everyone in your inbox, then promptly writes random data over your hard drive) then we'd really see people start to take viruses seriously.
Even the most "destructive" viruses in recent history have wimped out in some way -- just consider Michelangelo, which was hard-coded to become destructive at a much later date, long after it would be discovered and patches written.
Ideally we'd have one CD with NetBSD on it, and a guard with an AK-47 present to make sure the user didn't do anything stupid.
The distro I describe is most closely matched in the Linux world by Slackware.
I prefer Linux on the server and Windows and Office on the desktop. It has nothing to do with politics, cost, freedom or anything else. It has to do with what I am comfortable using.
:)
It has to do with you never having used a Mac!
(straight to hell with my karma)
Considering the speed at which NetBSD releases come out, you must be rocking 1200 baud!
-krog, NetBSD user since 1.1 (about 40 years ago)
that's why I stick to Light Mode.
Because they can't hack it, that's why. It's a politically unpopular thing to say and will get me modded down for sure, but it's the elephant in the corner: girls just plain suck at online games where coordination and speed is a factor (like Quake; unlike EQ).
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How does this compare? Favorably.
RIP, Frank Zappa. He was smarter then the entire PMRC put together.
If you dislike Red Hat and Debian so much that you are willing to use Gentoo just to avoid their god-awful package systems, you should try NetBSD or FreeBSD. Pkgsrc (NetBSD)/Ports (FreeBSD) is the best package system around -- try it and see what it's like to use a modern software management system.
They're limiting it to server-quality OSes. (I'm surprised they are letting Gentoo in, honestly.)
Then you should also cover FORTRAN 77, Algol 60, and carving recipes into frickin stone tablets.
People still use this crap?
...that there are perhaps 20x fewer people who care about the outcome of this story, than those who care about the recent troubles with goatse.cx. So why not post a story on goatse.cx and keep your users happy?
No -- not a troll, not offtopic, not flamebaiting. There's just no other forum to ask a question like this, so I do it here.