the clock starts ticking so no peaking until you're ready to watch it ALL
i think it refers to the habit (which i, of course, would never condone, let alone indulge in) of taking hallucinogenic drugs before sitting down to watch a movie or video.
I don't disagree with your point, but I hope that most people feel (as I do) that ethics and laws are two different things. In an ideal world, the laws of the state will match the ethical beliefs of the individual -- this is not that world.
1434.54 By agreeing to this license, you allow us to modify and copy any file on your computer, to molest your children, to poison your food, and to take your socks, at our sole discretion.
Please! No! Won't somebody please think of the childr--
Oh, that's right, I don't have any children. Well, they're not taking my socks without a fight!
This is quite possibly the lamest slashdot thread I've ever read. Not just this one post, but the entire page. You guys really need to look at what you're posting, and realize something:
How does this affect IE on the Mac? Internet Explorer isn't just Windows-reliant, you know.
I guess this question can be broken down to two areas: MacOS X IE, and the version for MacOS 9 and lower. (I only have experience with the latter program, so that's all I'll talk about.)
Mac versions of IE support a standard known as "MactiveX" -- i.e. a custom version of ActiveX that is incompatible with the Windows version (given that ActiveX plugins on Windows seem to be thinly wrapped DLLs, that's not surprising). The code-base for Mac IE is also mostly (completely?) separate from the Windows one, e.g. it has different bugs in its CSS support:)
As to if/when they'll break Netscape plugin support on the Macintosh versions of IE... who knows?
(If any of the above is inaccurate, I'm just a Linux user... but I've had to provide free tech support to quite a few Mac users in my time:)
I used 'serious' more to imply that several hundred pages of singly typed rules, etc. are an integral part of the game, as well as a board at least two dining-room tables wide:) That's one of the reasons I used the quotes... I was also pointing out to the person I replied to had the wrong idea about hexagons. (Civ/FreeCiv is by no stretch of the imagination based on a hexagonal map).
Is it 'astroturfing' due to the artificiality of the material in question, or 'astroturfing' due to the effect of the material, as in 'slamming the opposition to the astroturf'?
I've always understood astroturf to be "fake grass-roots support"; thus, it's artificial grass roots, i.e. astroturf.
The truckers, afraid of getting caught speeding, rush like hell to the very end of the toll road, risking all kinds of havoc on the way, and then stop completely at the end to avoid getting caught, thus completely negating any real benefit they gain from violating the speed limit.
Hey, they get time to have a meal on their employer's time -- sounds like a real benefit to me:)
I've been watching the fifth season of B5 and it's total crap.
Wasn't most of the fifth season filler? JMS had to speed up the main story arc and end it by the end of the fourth season (thinking they wouldn't be renewed). It's been a while since I've seen B5, but the first and last seasons were weaker than the rest, IMHO. When it was good, it was very good indeed:)
Or suppose you were having trouble reading the disk and tried to use a disk checking tool on it.
Many Amiga games (on floppy, anyway) used non-standard disk formats, so there would be no reason to 'use a disk checking tool'. These games worked in a similar fashion to console games, by kicking out the OS and handling interrupts etc. by themselves. If the disk developed problems and you were unable to make a backup, well, too bad. Thankfully hard drives became affordable a few years later...
But, more importantly, will that most advanced piece of software ever written (nay, conceived in one maniac's crazed mind) -- BLAZEMONGER -- work in this "full binary compatibility across CPU architecture"?
I'm not Dan...
but OF COURSE it will work! BLAZEMONGER works on all CPU architectures currently sold, and all CPU architechtures ever sold! If YOU can't get it working, that's your WIMPY LITTLE LUSER FAULT!
Some people say that new versions of BLAZEMONGER haven't been released in a while. What these infidels don't realize is that the last version of BLAZEMONGER was PERFECT!
Be quiet, otherwise we might have to send the boys from "Customer Relations" around again.
You took it further, as I should have done, and analysed Mono's place in all this, a somewhat precarious one...
But, when you have two gigantic semis, one labeled "Sun" and the other labeled "Microsoft" and they start barrelling towards each other in a game of enterprise chicken, I wouldn't want to be in the VW Bug with the stuffed penguin hanging in the back window that happens to be caught between them.
Very nicely put.:) To stretch the analogy further, I'd even be pretty careful were I a passenger in the front cabin of either of the two semi-trailers...
Well, the CLI is a standard (unlike Java) and it has more features that Java hasn't got yet (though it is SLOWLY getting them).
There's stuff in the CLI that improves speed (like structs) and others which improve simplicity (like boxing - so everything is an object).
Technically I'm quite impressed by C# and the CLI; there are things I would have preferred to be done slightly differently, but on the whole it seems to have done quite a few things right that Java did wrong.
However, I get the feeling that interoperability between CLI implementations will be just as difficult to achieve as Java's "WORA", if not more so, due to MS's gratuitous "twiddle the hidden APIs" and "depend on features only implemented in the Windows version of [standard]" gestures. It's made them the financial giant they are at the moment -- why would they stop now, especially when they can't be sued for doing it with software they already own?
We could just all use Sun's JVM for Linux, but isn't compeition 'a good thing'?
I would have preferred Java to be Open, and the future development of the language to be determined by an independent body... but I guess that wasn't going to happen either.
Competition between Sun and Microsoft may be a good thing for Sun or for Microsoft, or for the occasional consumer, but only tangentially are there any benefits to the consumer. First and foremost for all of these companies is market dominance. Remember this when choosing technologies, and if you feel that you are furthering ends that you are unhappy with (from any company or group), take this into account as well as any temporary convenience gained from using a particular technology.
...waiting to learn how they could lose weight fast,
Quit eating fast food all the time.
get rich quick
Put the money that you would have spent eating fast food into the bank
or get rid of debt
Take the money out of that bank and use it to pay off your credit cards and other debts.
Those solutions will never work. People always want something for nothing -- it's the fundamental basis of capitalism. You can't tell these people that TANSTAAFL -- they won't believe you.
Yes. But my point is it won't matter whatsoever. Linux will still have a good managed programming and execution enviroment. It should also be able to interoperate with other non MS CLI implementations.
Yes, and my point stands... that won't amount to a hill o' beans in the 'real world'.
Is it really worth the effort, when we already have Java?
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the clock starts ticking so no peaking until you're ready to watch it ALL
:)
i think it refers to the habit (which i, of course, would never condone, let alone indulge in) of taking hallucinogenic drugs before sitting down to watch a movie or video.
2001 on the big screen is very good.
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Legal: Yes
DiVX
Legal: No
I don't disagree with your point, but I hope that most people feel (as I do) that ethics and laws are two different things. In an ideal world, the laws of the state will match the ethical beliefs of the individual -- this is not that world.
1434.54 By agreeing to this license, you allow us to modify and copy any file on your computer, to molest your children, to poison your food, and to take your socks, at our sole discretion.
Please! No! Won't somebody please think of the childr--
Oh, that's right, I don't have any children. Well, they're not taking my socks without a fight!
This is quite possibly the lamest slashdot thread I've ever read. Not just this one post, but the entire page. You guys really need to look at what you're posting, and realize something:
You need lives.
Pot, kettle, black.
Thank you for playing.
I personally say "Linux," probably because I'm afraid of looking silly.
:)
It's written GNU/Linux, and pronounced "Linux". Or, "Linux, with a silent GNU/".
Not that I advocate it one way or the other, just offering a way out of your dilemma.
100% of statistics are misleading.
64.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.
78% of all statisticians are idiots.
How does this affect IE on the Mac? Internet Explorer isn't just Windows-reliant, you know.
:)
:)
I guess this question can be broken down to two areas: MacOS X IE, and the version for MacOS 9 and lower. (I only have experience with the latter program, so that's all I'll talk about.)
Mac versions of IE support a standard known as "MactiveX" -- i.e. a custom version of ActiveX that is incompatible with the Windows version (given that ActiveX plugins on Windows seem to be thinly wrapped DLLs, that's not surprising). The code-base for Mac IE is also mostly (completely?) separate from the Windows one, e.g. it has different bugs in its CSS support
As to if/when they'll break Netscape plugin support on the Macintosh versions of IE... who knows?
(If any of the above is inaccurate, I'm just a Linux user... but I've had to provide free tech support to quite a few Mac users in my time
I used 'serious' more to imply that several hundred pages of singly typed rules, etc. are an integral part of the game, as well as a board at least two dining-room tables wide :) That's one of the reasons I used the quotes... I was also pointing out to the person I replied to had the wrong idea about hexagons. (Civ/FreeCiv is by no stretch of the imagination based on a hexagonal map).
(DCMA?)
That's DMCA.
(Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
Infact it does use hexagonal plots of land, it just doesn't look like it :)
You can press 7, 9, 1 or 3 and your unit will make a hexagonal move at the price of one movement.
Doesn't that make it octagonal (8 possible directions)? Hexagonal would be more in accordance with many of the more 'serious' board-based wargames...
Is it 'astroturfing' due to the artificiality of the material in question, or 'astroturfing' due to the effect of the material, as in 'slamming the opposition to the astroturf'?
I've always understood astroturf to be "fake grass-roots support"; thus, it's artificial grass roots, i.e. astroturf.
The truckers, afraid of getting caught speeding, rush like hell to the very end of the toll road, risking all kinds of havoc on the way, and then stop completely at the end to avoid getting caught, thus completely negating any real benefit they gain from violating the speed limit.
:)
Hey, they get time to have a meal on their employer's time -- sounds like a real benefit to me
I've been watching the fifth season of B5 and it's total crap.
:)
Wasn't most of the fifth season filler? JMS had to speed up the main story arc and end it by the end of the fourth season (thinking they wouldn't be renewed). It's been a while since I've seen B5, but the first and last seasons were weaker than the rest, IMHO. When it was good, it was very good indeed
Debian is the most worthless piece of shit on earth
Lucky you don't have to pay for it then, or be forced to use it, eh?
I wouldn't say that Roblimo crossed any sacred line here either...
I'd like if Roblimo would make up his mind as to whether or not he is a journalist.
Robin (Roblimo) Miller != Rob (CmdrTaco) Malda. CmdrTaco (Rob Malda) posted this story.
Click on the 'about' link at the top/left of the index page for more details...
Yeah, nothing like laying off the people who sell your product when you are trying to increase revenue :)
:)
Obviously they didn't do their job very well, otherwise there would be money there to pay them
Or suppose you were having trouble reading the disk and tried to use a disk checking tool on it.
Many Amiga games (on floppy, anyway) used non-standard disk formats, so there would be no reason to 'use a disk checking tool'. These games worked in a similar fashion to console games, by kicking out the OS and handling interrupts etc. by themselves. If the disk developed problems and you were unable to make a backup, well, too bad. Thankfully hard drives became affordable a few years later...
Is she in one of these pictures? Let us know now, so we can avoid the same fate :)
Microsoft has yet to come up with a product that they haven't copied from someone else.
:)
I think you're forgetting Microsoft Bob.
But, more importantly, will that most advanced piece of software ever written (nay, conceived in one maniac's crazed mind) -- BLAZEMONGER -- work in this "full binary compatibility across CPU architecture"?
I'm not Dan...
but OF COURSE it will work! BLAZEMONGER works on all CPU architectures currently sold, and all CPU architechtures ever sold! If YOU can't get it working, that's your WIMPY LITTLE LUSER FAULT!
Some people say that new versions of BLAZEMONGER haven't been released in a while. What these infidels don't realize is that the last version of BLAZEMONGER was PERFECT!
Be quiet, otherwise we might have to send the boys from "Customer Relations" around again.
Nah, I would suggest the VW bug was drafting behind the Sun 18-wheeler.
:)
At the moment, isn't the Linux VW bug parked next to the Big Blue supertanker?
(Let's stretch this analogy to breaking point... and beyond! (ObToyStory reference from a Debian user
First of all, excellent post.
:)
:) To stretch the analogy further, I'd even be pretty careful were I a passenger in the front cabin of either of the two semi-trailers...
Thanks
You took it further, as I should have done, and analysed Mono's place in all this, a somewhat precarious one...
But, when you have two gigantic semis, one labeled "Sun" and the other labeled "Microsoft" and they start barrelling towards each other in a game of enterprise chicken, I wouldn't want to be in the VW Bug with the stuffed penguin hanging in the back window that happens to be caught between them.
Very nicely put.
Well, the CLI is a standard (unlike Java) and it has more features that Java hasn't got yet (though it is SLOWLY getting them).
There's stuff in the CLI that improves speed (like structs) and others which improve simplicity (like boxing - so everything is an object).
Technically I'm quite impressed by C# and the CLI; there are things I would have preferred to be done slightly differently, but on the whole it seems to have done quite a few things right that Java did wrong.
However, I get the feeling that interoperability between CLI implementations will be just as difficult to achieve as Java's "WORA", if not more so, due to MS's gratuitous "twiddle the hidden APIs" and "depend on features only implemented in the Windows version of [standard]" gestures. It's made them the financial giant they are at the moment -- why would they stop now, especially when they can't be sued for doing it with software they already own?
We could just all use Sun's JVM for Linux, but isn't compeition 'a good thing'?
I would have preferred Java to be Open, and the future development of the language to be determined by an independent body... but I guess that wasn't going to happen either.
Competition between Sun and Microsoft may be a good thing for Sun or for Microsoft, or for the occasional consumer, but only tangentially are there any benefits to the consumer. First and foremost for all of these companies is market dominance. Remember this when choosing technologies, and if you feel that you are furthering ends that you are unhappy with (from any company or group), take this into account as well as any temporary convenience gained from using a particular technology.
(/me steps down from the soapbox...)
...waiting to learn how they could lose weight fast,
Quit eating fast food all the time.
get rich quick
Put the money that you would have spent eating fast food into the bank
or get rid of debt
Take the money out of that bank and use it to pay off your credit cards and other debts.
Those solutions will never work. People always want something for nothing -- it's the fundamental basis of capitalism. You can't tell these people that TANSTAAFL -- they won't believe you.
Yes. But my point is it won't matter whatsoever. Linux will still have a good managed programming and execution enviroment. It should also be able to interoperate with other non MS CLI implementations.
Yes, and my point stands... that won't amount to a hill o' beans in the 'real world'.
Is it really worth the effort, when we already have Java?