For the long duration it took to complete the project, I don't think it was *that* much money per year really. I don't think $15 million / year is much in the big picture.
The only way to explain this is that the plot twist of Episode 3 is that George Lucas *is* Darth Vader. And this time it won't be a character in the movie screaming "Nooo!" about it, but the audience...
Just block the packets that will have the evil bit set. After all, it was for cases like this it was introduced. Doh!
I can't believe where we're heading today, when so many developers sloppily seem to think "bah, just another useless standard we can ignore" when the standard in question is a very important one to follow!
New programming languages are interesting, and sometimes I wonder what the next "big thing" will be. Will we have another big, revolutionizing, new concept like "object-oriented programming" that you simply must know in a near future?
Some further investigation unveiled this page which seems to be a good information source for the experimental version of UAE that will (does?) give Linux and MacOS X users all the goodies from WinUAE that have been added.
Works perfectly fine with lots of games and even demos functional to 100%. It's still in development (last update just two months ago) and contains numerous features to extend the OS with, although it still feels and functions probably more like the Amiga you came to know than this "AmigaOS 4.0". You can even choose which ROM to use (which aren't freely available, but sold by the old Amiga software company Cloanto) to make it anything from an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 to an Amiga 1200 with AGA and Kickstart 3.0!
Best of all, the emulator itself is free, fast (or emulates the speed an Amiga would have if you wish), and can be run like a regular program on your existing partition where floppy disks are just simple Megabyte-sized image files.
WinUAE is based on UAE which is open source software, with downloadable binaries for Linux.
An OS of interest might be AROS with a goal to be a full-blown AmigaOS 3.x compatible OS. However, I have a feeling you'll have less problems with the emulator.
Ehh.. What does the.NET Framework have to do with this compiler anyway? How is that piece from the EULA relevant to a simple compiler?
You could just as well have picked a restriction in a random API's EULA and blamed the VC++ Toolkit for that.
Just because MS develops both doesn't mean that the compiler is related to the.NET framework whatsoever. Just work directly with Win32 or something else if you want to avoid that paragraph.
Gigablast: "273,384,720 pages indexed" Google: "Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages" That's quite a big difference.
Yes, and noticeable to me. I tried to search for a site I know, and regardless how many terms I entered, it didn't spot it... In the end, the results was down to 2 hits (with only three common keywords) and it wasn't among the sites.
Heck, it doesn't put www.slashdot.org first when searching for Slashdot.:-P Actually, I couldn't even find a link to the main page when searching for Slashdot.
were you paying attention? It keeps your *browsing* history also.
That could be because they don't only maintain a *search* history for the user's convenience in cross-browser sessions, but also a *click* history to let the user see, for the searched sites, which have been recently visited. They wouldn't be able to do this in a reliable way without checking all sites you browse to.
For example, I go to slashdot.org via a search at A9.com. This adds slashdot.org to my persistent search history. I then go to freshmeat.net and then back to slashdot.org, not via A9.com, but via a bookmark or manually typing the URL. With the toolbar installed, it will still catch this and update the last-visited date in the search history.
Note: I don't know if this is how it actually works, but it seems like a logical explanation, since otherwise they wouldn't be able to maintain the "click history" correctly to update last-visited dates.
This is going a bit off-topic, but ShareReactor.com was recently shut down for giving away *checksums* (yes, imagine that!) for software and movies on their site, which could in turn be used in P2P applications.
What's next? Not being allowed to speak the name of copyrighted material since it could give pirates an idea that they can download it?:-P
But if the hard drive mechanics went bad, you'd be screwed.
Since you'd probably get not one, but more than two drives and also each being larger, you could RAID them for redundancy which would help quite a bit against these sort of sudden unexpected and disastrous problems. One drive going bad is no problem then, and gives you plenty of time to take any emergency measures you need before you truly lose any data. Yeah, all three drives could crash shortly after each other, but your locker where you kept all discs could also catch fire.:-)
You can also remove the Iomega media (for remote storage, etc) without shutting down your machine and unplugging cables.
So can SATA drives. Not that I've dared to do it myself mostly because it feels a bit "strange", but it's supposed to be safe.:-)
It's easy to set daily bandwidth limits and they'd have a good reason to do so (like their own economy). As opposed to tweaking their web spider to rate sites differently. Hmm, I just don't see the connection here..
I think the reason the public don't bother with Linux as much as we might have wanted isn't really because they're stupid, but because they have no good reason to abandon a lot of their well-known software (no, Wine isn't a universal solution) for a still uncommon operating system with worse hardware support and where you'll have trouble viewing those PowerPoint presentations from work or whatever. To make users want to do the big jump of switching to an entirely different OS, you really need to convince them they'll for twice as fast with it or something like that. Less security holes won't do this, by the way. I've noticed inexperienced users might get a virus, spam a bunch of people, and then get told about it sooner or later and then they fix it and are happy. So security flaws are usually a non-issue to them.
Also, the OS on its own isn't as mature as we might want either. For example, when I was going to use the latest version Knoppix a bit, the entire OS froze when I tried to access my hard drive. Maybe it didn't support Serial ATA? So I tried to look this up, and it boiled down to having to know which SATA controller my motherboard had (something not even the manufacturer listed), and know which patch to get, and even then I wouldn't know if that was the problem. So what does a human (not stupid) user then do? Well, maybe throw the CD in the trash can and say "screw this unfinished software, why do I even bother?"
Just saying that you don't get many chances nowadays if something doesn't work right, especially if it's about an alien OS to the user and they aren't even convinced it'll do their job better. I'm not quite sure how a regular user would best be convinced. Keep in mind that you aren't trying to convince a computer geek. They don't care about technicalities, but how fast an OS get their job done. Even if Linux works really well, I doubt it gets their job done noticeably faster than a Windows box, and I think that's where the problem is.
It's miles ahead compared to their old command prompt emulator in Windows XP already in the beta I have, and seems to finally catch up with well-known unix shells and in some cases race beyond some of them (IMHO of course!). It also by default uses command aliases like "ls", "rm", "ps", "pwd", etc.:-)
It can finally transparently access other file systems by "mounting" (not sure if the term is that, but the end result is the same) them through "providers" so you can for example navigate through your registry without having to rewrite the "cd" command, list the contents of a DNS server with the "ls" command, and so on, and lots lots more. So, in other words, they've got rid of the hard coded "C:\" and similar one-letter drives, and C: will just be a pointer to the FileStore (FS) provider. Finally I can do it the Amiga way and create drives like FONTS:, haha...
I must say I was fascinated by some parts, even if I've used a bunch of *nix shells in the past. Especially because it's completely object oriented. Here's an example script:
Of course, "ps" is just an alias for the "get/process" command and when you just type "ps" in the console, it just uses its method for console output to generate the text you see. I find this one of the most exciting features of Longhorn myself, and was pleasantly surprised by it, since I had thought MS would go all eye candy and hide their command prompt even further in the "don't go here"-corners of the OS.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
For the long duration it took to complete the project, I don't think it was *that* much money per year really. I don't think $15 million / year is much in the big picture.
The only way to explain this is that the plot twist of Episode 3 is that George Lucas *is* Darth Vader. And this time it won't be a character in the movie screaming "Nooo!" about it, but the audience...
Just block the packets that will have the evil bit set. After all, it was for cases like this it was introduced. Doh!
I can't believe where we're heading today, when so many developers sloppily seem to think "bah, just another useless standard we can ignore" when the standard in question is a very important one to follow!
by EnglishTim (9662)
You fucking geek.
You must be new h... No, wait...
Don't miss Google Directory if you're looking for more D info:
Computers > Programming > Languages > D
New programming languages are interesting, and sometimes I wonder what the next "big thing" will be. Will we have another big, revolutionizing, new concept like "object-oriented programming" that you simply must know in a near future?
Some further investigation unveiled this page which seems to be a good information source for the experimental version of UAE that will (does?) give Linux and MacOS X users all the goodies from WinUAE that have been added.
I prefer WinUAE for all my Amiga needs. :-)
Works perfectly fine with lots of games and even demos functional to 100%. It's still in development (last update just two months ago) and contains numerous features to extend the OS with, although it still feels and functions probably more like the Amiga you came to know than this "AmigaOS 4.0". You can even choose which ROM to use (which aren't freely available, but sold by the old Amiga software company Cloanto) to make it anything from an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 to an Amiga 1200 with AGA and Kickstart 3.0!
Best of all, the emulator itself is free, fast (or emulates the speed an Amiga would have if you wish), and can be run like a regular program on your existing partition where floppy disks are just simple Megabyte-sized image files.
WinUAE is based on UAE which is open source software, with downloadable binaries for Linux.
An OS of interest might be AROS with a goal to be a full-blown AmigaOS 3.x compatible OS. However, I have a feeling you'll have less problems with the emulator.
Ehh.. What does the .NET Framework have to do with this compiler anyway? How is that piece from the EULA relevant to a simple compiler?
.NET framework whatsoever. Just work directly with Win32 or something else if you want to avoid that paragraph.
You could just as well have picked a restriction in a random API's EULA and blamed the VC++ Toolkit for that.
Just because MS develops both doesn't mean that the compiler is related to the
Duh... I think he was asking for examples of stuff not working with the *current* compiler. :-P
it will be because it's good or because the others have slacked off.
Or because they dominate the consumer OS and browser market.
Gigablast: "273,384,720 pages indexed"
:-P Actually, I couldn't even find a link to the main page when searching for Slashdot.
Google: "Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages" That's quite a big difference.
Yes, and noticeable to me. I tried to search for a site I know, and regardless how many terms I entered, it didn't spot it... In the end, the results was down to 2 hits (with only three common keywords) and it wasn't among the sites.
Heck, it doesn't put www.slashdot.org first when searching for Slashdot.
were you paying attention? It keeps your *browsing* history also.
That could be because they don't only maintain a *search* history for the user's convenience in cross-browser sessions, but also a *click* history to let the user see, for the searched sites, which have been recently visited. They wouldn't be able to do this in a reliable way without checking all sites you browse to.
For example, I go to slashdot.org via a search at A9.com. This adds slashdot.org to my persistent search history. I then go to freshmeat.net and then back to slashdot.org, not via A9.com, but via a bookmark or manually typing the URL. With the toolbar installed, it will still catch this and update the last-visited date in the search history.
Note: I don't know if this is how it actually works, but it seems like a logical explanation, since otherwise they wouldn't be able to maintain the "click history" correctly to update last-visited dates.
But my point is that they provided something like this string:
ed2k://|file|StarOffice-6.0-linux-en.cue|89|5bf
18604b|
This is going a bit off-topic, but ShareReactor.com was recently shut down for giving away *checksums* (yes, imagine that!) for software and movies on their site, which could in turn be used in P2P applications.
:-P
What's next? Not being allowed to speak the name of copyrighted material since it could give pirates an idea that they can download it?
Apple Hunts Playfair in India
:-P
What are you trying to say, that they're on a Safari?
Damn, they dropped support for proportional fonts.
- Humorless lawyers suing attrition.org (includes reply to their letter)
- Humorless lawyers suing Ralph Nader... and losing
Should you laugh or cry at this?
TESS Info for trademark #2370508
But if the hard drive mechanics went bad, you'd be screwed.
:-)
:-)
Since you'd probably get not one, but more than two drives and also each being larger, you could RAID them for redundancy which would help quite a bit against these sort of sudden unexpected and disastrous problems. One drive going bad is no problem then, and gives you plenty of time to take any emergency measures you need before you truly lose any data. Yeah, all three drives could crash shortly after each other, but your locker where you kept all discs could also catch fire.
You can also remove the Iomega media (for remote storage, etc) without shutting down your machine and unplugging cables.
So can SATA drives. Not that I've dared to do it myself mostly because it feels a bit "strange", but it's supposed to be safe.
He could've used the actual books as examples just as well. I recall they sold OK too. :-P
Eh, how are those problems related?
It's easy to set daily bandwidth limits and they'd have a good reason to do so (like their own economy). As opposed to tweaking their web spider to rate sites differently. Hmm, I just don't see the connection here..
You're making a bad assumption that everyone else has the same email habits as you do
Where is s/he making that assumption? Only saying that not everyone will make use of the full gigabyte, which is very true.
I imagine it'll work like that, and Gmail will probably not have space for every user to have 1 GB from the start.
I think the reason the public don't bother with Linux as much as we might have wanted isn't really because they're stupid, but because they have no good reason to abandon a lot of their well-known software (no, Wine isn't a universal solution) for a still uncommon operating system with worse hardware support and where you'll have trouble viewing those PowerPoint presentations from work or whatever. To make users want to do the big jump of switching to an entirely different OS, you really need to convince them they'll for twice as fast with it or something like that. Less security holes won't do this, by the way. I've noticed inexperienced users might get a virus, spam a bunch of people, and then get told about it sooner or later and then they fix it and are happy. So security flaws are usually a non-issue to them.
Also, the OS on its own isn't as mature as we might want either. For example, when I was going to use the latest version Knoppix a bit, the entire OS froze when I tried to access my hard drive. Maybe it didn't support Serial ATA? So I tried to look this up, and it boiled down to having to know which SATA controller my motherboard had (something not even the manufacturer listed), and know which patch to get, and even then I wouldn't know if that was the problem. So what does a human (not stupid) user then do? Well, maybe throw the CD in the trash can and say "screw this unfinished software, why do I even bother?"
Just saying that you don't get many chances nowadays if something doesn't work right, especially if it's about an alien OS to the user and they aren't even convinced it'll do their job better. I'm not quite sure how a regular user would best be convinced. Keep in mind that you aren't trying to convince a computer geek. They don't care about technicalities, but how fast an OS get their job done. Even if Linux works really well, I doubt it gets their job done noticeably faster than a Windows box, and I think that's where the problem is.
What this program is is not circumvention... It's fair use.
Actually, it's both.
Their new shell "msh"? (code name Monad)
:-)
:-)
It's miles ahead compared to their old command prompt emulator in Windows XP already in the beta I have, and seems to finally catch up with well-known unix shells and in some cases race beyond some of them (IMHO of course!). It also by default uses command aliases like "ls", "rm", "ps", "pwd", etc.
It can finally transparently access other file systems by "mounting" (not sure if the term is that, but the end result is the same) them through "providers" so you can for example navigate through your registry without having to rewrite the "cd" command, list the contents of a DNS server with the "ls" command, and so on, and lots lots more. So, in other words, they've got rid of the hard coded "C:\" and similar one-letter drives, and C: will just be a pointer to the FileStore (FS) provider. Finally I can do it the Amiga way and create drives like FONTS:, haha...
I must say I was fascinated by some parts, even if I've used a bunch of *nix shells in the past. Especially because it's completely object oriented. Here's an example script:
$p = get/process
foreach ($p)
{
$p.FileName.ToString()
}
Of course, "ps" is just an alias for the "get/process" command and when you just type "ps" in the console, it just uses its method for console output to generate the text you see. I find this one of the most exciting features of Longhorn myself, and was pleasantly surprised by it, since I had thought MS would go all eye candy and hide their command prompt even further in the "don't go here"-corners of the OS.