Interesting. I'm using a Mozilla 1.4 + SVG build (emerged with Gentoo), and none of those sites work -- they all want an SVG plugin!
The croczilla files DO display, but clearly not correctly -- they are only in greyscale and have some obvious alignment problems. Stupid thing is, I was using a 1.3 alpha + SVG build (downloaded from some FTP site) and it displayed them (the croczilla files) just fine. I wonder what got broken. Would be nice to have it working correctly again.
Apparently you are cheap and your time is worth nothing.:)
Well, you'll probably only spend a few minutes starting the downloads and a few more minutes burning the CDs.
Now, if you didn't have a usable operating system on your computer, so you had downtime while it was downloading, then obviously buying a boxed set would be a better deal.
Yeah, Mexico is crazy in a lot of ways, but it's probably better than Ecuador....
Huh? 7 hours per CD is just 21 hours to download Red Hat, and since it's DSL you're not tying up a phone line. You can use your computer for other things while it's downloading. That is nothing! I'd *much* rather do that than pay $50.
Just out of curiosity, what does DSL run in Mexico? I'm moving to Ecuador in the fall and I hear it's a few hundred dollars a month there. Cable is like $150 a month and they have technicians physically go in and prove you're not sharing it between more than one computer with a router(!!!). Hopefully Ecuador's telco monopoly will loosen up a bit in the next few years...
> That won't happen unless Microsoft drops IE and starts shipping Mozilla.
It won't happen on Windows. The way Mozilla will surpass IE is when Linux surpasses Windows on the desktop. And I'm nearly 100% certain that that will happen in the second half of this decade.
How does 2. work? The problem with 2. is that the license will end up being stricter and effectively Closed Source. Otherwise, what is to stop Buyer's direct competitor using it for $0, as opposed to $XXXX?
"Buyer" could be anything... anyone who simply wants Open Source to succeed. It could be Penguin Computing. It could be ABC Insurance Co., who would find it to be useful on their 55,000 desktops (and still much less costly than commercial software). It could be a large group of geeks who each chip in $5.
particularly as the breadth of applications available on Linux today is lacking
It can't be *that* lacking, since Munich is switching 14,000 desktops whole-hog to Linux.
Personally, I find "10% market share in a few years" to be extremely pessimistic. If it has less than 30% share by, say, 2008, I'll be very disappointed.
And I think that will happen. Once you get the critical mass, there will be virtually NO reason for ANYONE to stick with Windows, except for pure legacy apps.
I remember laboriously translating 6502 assembly into DATA statements, by hand, when I was learning to program in the 80s
Good grief, there WERE good free assemblers for the C64. I used the one put out by a book on assembly language programming by Compute's Gazette magazine.
IIRC, you typed your asm like you would BASIC lines, then typed SYS11000 or something to run the assembler...
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The C64 VIC video chip was far more powerful than any CGA display! CGA only supported four colors at a time; the C64 supported 16. With CGA you had to choose between text or graphics mode, and in text mode no graphics were allowed. The VIC could display sprites in text mode. Sprites are completely independant of the rest of the display, and could be moved to a different location on the screen with a single POKE command in BASIC (well, two of them if you wanted to change the X *and* Y coords). It also supported interrupts when the monitor reached a certain scanline -- so you could change the color of something -- the screen background, border, or a sprite, in the middle of the screen with a quick asm hack!
Social Security is above all a "saftey net" so that children without both parents and those who are no longer productive (elderly) can be housed, clothed, and fed. It is really _not_ a retirement plan. It is a mechanism to prevent widespread poverty.
Why in the world should it take 15% of everyone's (ok, working class) income to accomplish that? Simply ridiculous.
> Until the electoral college becomes a thing of the past.
Correct.
But no one ever claimed the USA is a democracy. It's a REPUBLIC. We don't vote for issues, we vote for people who will vote for issues and/or appoint other people.
And it can certainly be argued the the electoral college is a good thing. It helps a bit to balance out the heartland vs. the cities. They have quite different attitudes towards many issues. The heartland is in large part what's responsible for the success of this country, but their opinions can be drowned out by the big city attitudes.
The first Bush was unseated because the economy was on its way down going towards the election.
This time it will almost certainly be on its way up. Unless that changes, Bush pretty much has it in the bag, ESPECIALLY against Dean, because he's too liberal (at least he's perceived that way) for most of America.
> If you look at Fox News, or any of the other conservative news stations, they will say hes far left because they'd rather you vote for him than for Kerry or Gephart, the real far left.
Well Dean is well left of Kerry and Gephardt at least on military issues. And I don't think either of the latter have openly endorsed same sex marriages.
At least one Republican is advocating that Republicans should contribute to Dean's campaign to get him nominated, because Bush would eat his lunch in the general election.:)
Personally, I think it would be pretty interesting if Dean won the primary. Unlike Clinton, Gore, Gephardt, and Daschle, Dean seems to be a liberal with a principle or two, and he seems to be closer to the people. I'd rather have him elected than any of them.
I'll probably get modded Troll for this, but oh well... I *am* serious...
> He is on track for dismantling Social Security and Medicare.
We can only hope. I'm convined that Social Security is the biggest scam in the history of mankind.
Think about it. What other scam has screwed hundreds of millions of people out of 15% of their life's income only to give them a piddly amount back if/when the retire?
If people would invest that in anything decent over the course of their lives, they'd be quite rich on retirement.
That reminds me of one of the more evil things I did in college. Our college had phone extensions ranging from 4600 to 4950.
Wrote a Turbo Pascal program (sorry, this was in the DOS days, OK?) that basically went...
for each number in 4600 to 4950
next if (number) in exclude list, which included friends and a few females
pick up modem, dial number
wait 10 seconds (long enough for 2 rings)
hang up modem
wait 2 seconds next
Wrote another script to start it at 4:30 in the morning. Went to bed. Enjoyed listening to conversations at breakfast the next day!:)
I would suspect that the Gentoo folks will distribute a version of the kernel with Reiser4... either gentoo-sources, or maybe reiser4-sources (currently like they distribute xfs-sources -- 2.4 + XFS, which itself will be unnecessary in 2.6).
...but I am joining the IT department of a large missionary radio organization (several hundred desktops in several countries) and we are definitely moving in that direction.
Actually this could be pretty significant. It means that applications such as KOffice (and the rest of KDE) could have a *nice* *easy* scripting solution just like Microsoft's VBA (but better).
I for one am looking forward to seeing this in use.
But like I said, the actual portage code is a tiny fraction of what happens when you emerge. And for embedded boxes, portage should run somewhere else and produce an image to be transferred to the device.
Besides, there are probably better distros than Gentoo for embedded systems...
Re-writing portage in C just seems stupid. 99.9% of the time it takes portage to run is waiting for downloads or other programs (compilers). Python code is far more maintainable and readable than C anyway...
C is meant for low level system programming. Why people use it for anything other than low level system functions is beyond me...
If you download Firebird, be sure to install the Flash Click to Play extension. It replaces Flash objects with a nice button that you can click on to view the actual Flash object.
Having that thing makes me so happy I want to cry! It's as good as pop-up blocking for some sites with lots of annoying Flash ads!
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Interesting. I'm using a Mozilla 1.4 + SVG build (emerged with Gentoo), and none of those sites work -- they all want an SVG plugin!
The croczilla files DO display, but clearly not correctly -- they are only in greyscale and have some obvious alignment problems. Stupid thing is, I was using a 1.3 alpha + SVG build (downloaded from some FTP site) and it displayed them (the croczilla files) just fine. I wonder what got broken. Would be nice to have it working correctly again.
... you can get an SVG enabled Mozilla by setting "mozsvg" in your USE settings. It's not documented, but it's there.
Apparently you are cheap and your time is worth nothing. :)
Well, you'll probably only spend a few minutes starting the downloads and a few more minutes burning the CDs.
Now, if you didn't have a usable operating system on your computer, so you had downtime while it was downloading, then obviously buying a boxed set would be a better deal.
Yeah, Mexico is crazy in a lot of ways, but it's probably better than Ecuador....
Huh? 7 hours per CD is just 21 hours to download Red Hat, and since it's DSL you're not tying up a phone line. You can use your computer for other things while it's downloading. That is nothing! I'd *much* rather do that than pay $50.
Just out of curiosity, what does DSL run in Mexico? I'm moving to Ecuador in the fall and I hear it's a few hundred dollars a month there. Cable is like $150 a month and they have technicians physically go in and prove you're not sharing it between more than one computer with a router(!!!). Hopefully Ecuador's telco monopoly will loosen up a bit in the next few years...
> >> If Mozilla surpasses IE ...
> That won't happen unless Microsoft drops IE and starts shipping Mozilla.
It won't happen on Windows. The way Mozilla will surpass IE is when Linux surpasses Windows on the desktop. And I'm nearly 100% certain that that will happen in the second half of this decade.
How does 2. work? The problem with 2. is that the license will end up being stricter and effectively Closed Source. Otherwise, what is to stop Buyer's direct competitor using it for $0, as opposed to $XXXX?
... anyone who simply wants Open Source to succeed. It could be Penguin Computing. It could be ABC Insurance Co., who would find it to be useful on their 55,000 desktops (and still much less costly than commercial software). It could be a large group of geeks who each chip in $5.
"Buyer" could be anything
particularly as the breadth of applications available on Linux today is lacking
It can't be *that* lacking, since Munich is switching 14,000 desktops whole-hog to Linux.
Personally, I find "10% market share in a few years" to be extremely pessimistic. If it has less than 30% share by, say, 2008, I'll be very disappointed.
And I think that will happen. Once you get the critical mass, there will be virtually NO reason for ANYONE to stick with Windows, except for pure legacy apps.
1. Write the code. Demonstrate it to people. Maybe distribute it as free beer software in binary-only form.
2. Offer to sell it for $XXXX to a buyer under any Open Source license they both agree upon.
3. Profit!
(Uh oh, something's wrong, where should the "???" go?)
I remember laboriously translating 6502 assembly into DATA statements, by hand, when I was learning to program in the 80s
Good grief, there WERE good free assemblers for the C64. I used the one put out by a book on assembly language programming by Compute's Gazette magazine.
IIRC, you typed your asm like you would BASIC lines, then typed SYS11000 or something to run the assembler...
The C64 VIC video chip was far more powerful than any CGA display! CGA only supported four colors at a time; the C64 supported 16. With CGA you had to choose between text or graphics mode, and in text mode no graphics were allowed. The VIC could display sprites in text mode. Sprites are completely independant of the rest of the display, and could be moved to a different location on the screen with a single POKE command in BASIC (well, two of them if you wanted to change the X *and* Y coords). It also supported interrupts when the monitor reached a certain scanline -- so you could change the color of something -- the screen background, border, or a sprite, in the middle of the screen with a quick asm hack!
How does frodo compare to vice? That's the one I've always used, and it rocks!
:)
"emerge vice" works just fine on my Gentoo box.
Social Security is above all a "saftey net" so that children without both parents and those who are no longer productive (elderly) can be housed, clothed, and fed. It is really _not_ a retirement plan. It is a mechanism to prevent widespread poverty.
Why in the world should it take 15% of everyone's (ok, working class) income to accomplish that? Simply ridiculous.
> Until the electoral college becomes a thing of the past.
Correct.
But no one ever claimed the USA is a democracy. It's a REPUBLIC. We don't vote for issues, we vote for people who will vote for issues and/or appoint other people.
And it can certainly be argued the the electoral college is a good thing. It helps a bit to balance out the heartland vs. the cities. They have quite different attitudes towards many issues. The heartland is in large part what's responsible for the success of this country, but their opinions can be drowned out by the big city attitudes.
At least in theory...
Did anyone notice THIS in the grid?
"Speaks harshly about negative environmental impact of SUVs. Drives an SUV (a Chevy Suburban)."
Hehehehehe.
The first Bush was unseated because the economy was on its way down going towards the election.
This time it will almost certainly be on its way up. Unless that changes, Bush pretty much has it in the bag, ESPECIALLY against Dean, because he's too liberal (at least he's perceived that way) for most of America.
> If you look at Fox News, or any of the other conservative news stations, they will say hes far left because they'd rather you vote for him than for Kerry or Gephart, the real far left.
:)
Well Dean is well left of Kerry and Gephardt at least on military issues. And I don't think either of the latter have openly endorsed same sex marriages.
At least one Republican is advocating that Republicans should contribute to Dean's campaign to get him nominated, because Bush would eat his lunch in the general election.
Personally, I think it would be pretty interesting if Dean won the primary. Unlike Clinton, Gore, Gephardt, and Daschle, Dean seems to be a liberal with a principle or two, and he seems to be closer to the people. I'd rather have him elected than any of them.
I'll probably get modded Troll for this, but oh well... I *am* serious...
> He is on track for dismantling Social Security and Medicare.
We can only hope. I'm convined that Social Security is the biggest scam in the history of mankind.
Think about it. What other scam has screwed hundreds of millions of people out of 15% of their life's income only to give them a piddly amount back if/when the retire?
If people would invest that in anything decent over the course of their lives, they'd be quite rich on retirement.
Wrote a Turbo Pascal program (sorry, this was in the DOS days, OK?) that basically went...Wrote another script to start it at 4:30 in the morning. Went to bed. Enjoyed listening to conversations at breakfast the next day!
I would suspect that the Gentoo folks will distribute a version of the kernel with Reiser4 ... either gentoo-sources, or maybe reiser4-sources (currently like they distribute xfs-sources -- 2.4 + XFS, which itself will be unnecessary in 2.6).
...but I am joining the IT department of a large missionary radio organization (several hundred desktops in several countries) and we are definitely moving in that direction.
Actually this could be pretty significant. It means that applications such as KOffice (and the rest of KDE) could have a *nice* *easy* scripting solution just like Microsoft's VBA (but better).
I for one am looking forward to seeing this in use.
But like I said, the actual portage code is a tiny fraction of what happens when you emerge. And for embedded boxes, portage should run somewhere else and produce an image to be transferred to the device.
Besides, there are probably better distros than Gentoo for embedded systems...
Re-writing portage in C just seems stupid. 99.9% of the time it takes portage to run is waiting for downloads or other programs (compilers). Python code is far more maintainable and readable than C anyway...
C is meant for low level system programming. Why people use it for anything other than low level system functions is beyond me...
If you download Firebird, be sure to install the Flash Click to Play extension. It replaces Flash objects with a nice button that you can click on to view the actual Flash object.
Having that thing makes me so happy I want to cry! It's as good as pop-up blocking for some sites with lots of annoying Flash ads!
If you're interested...
:-)
I wrote a Yahtzee dice game macro using StarBasic in a Calc spreadsheet.
Get it here.