I think the closest analogy would be criminal gangs... a strong leader who leads because he's clearly the most stupendous badass[1] currently available.
Well, duh! It's not about America, it's not important!
(In a similar way that things happening in North England aren't important to the southerners... witness the fact that nothing was done about the petrol crisis until it hit London, and the fact that petrol supplies are being diverted mainly to South Eastern petrol stations)
From what I've heard, XFree86 4.0 is working towards making a much better job of this kind of thing... no more modelines[1], apparently.
And yes, you've highlighted the problem with auto-detection: often, it'll go wrong. This is one area where unfortunately Microsoft have the edge... for one thing, it's an area where vast financial resources help significantly. For another, hardware manufacturers are queuing up to kiss the arse of Bill Gates. Open source developers have to (for the most part) scrabble for specs and so on.
It's an absolutely wonderful idea, but I really can't see it ever happening... can you imagine the *enormous* amount of processing power it would take to apply pattern matching to every item in the database?
If you allow arbitrary pattern matching, I really don't see how you can implement any data structure other than a simple list. Which would take absurd lengths of time.
On the other hand, perhaps I'm wrong... it'd definitely make an interesting research project, if nobody has already done it.
NIS pales in comparison to *anything*. The fleas on a dead goat would implement a better directory service than NIS. It's more sucky than a very sucky thing.
It should have been brutally killed a long time ago, as should NFS.
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Please somebody tell me that Americans don't *really* need it pointing out that that Germany, Switzerland and Austria are in Europe?
I always assumed it was a caricature...
But not counting, it seems.
> Don't be there
And this is different from "Our artillery bombardment will be aiming at this area. Don't be there.", how?
> don't just kill allies
Somebody might want to mention that to the American military at some point.
"Hey, that tank has a big sign marking it as British..."
"Fuck it. Bombs Away!"
You shouldn't point a gun at somebody unless you intend to kill them.
I have trouble sleeping *without* a computer fan running in the room these days...
I think the closest analogy would be criminal gangs... a strong leader who leads because he's clearly the most stupendous badass[1] currently available.
Well, duh! It's not about America, it's not important!
(In a similar way that things happening in North England aren't important to the southerners... witness the fact that nothing was done about the petrol crisis until it hit London, and the fact that petrol supplies are being diverted mainly to South Eastern petrol stations)
Hey, don't bring Ally McBeal into this!
;-)
> the single best piece of software I've seen them write
My vote still goes to "edit"...
So 25 word posts displaying your disliking yayda *aren't* inane and childish then?
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Haha! Not so clever now, are you?!
Less than once a day is almost never? *boggle*
IHBT? Oops.
> the US legal system can be nasty
Lucky he's not in the US then?
(Note for Americans: the bit of the world across the salty water isn't the US. Does that make it clearer?)
Well, the simple answer is obvious: change the colour of comments to the background colour...
Really? Those must have been some tough astronauts, surviving unprotected in a vacuum then...
Well, if we're going to be pedantic, don't you mean zero g? I'm fairly sure the universal gravitational constant didn't get changed :-)
> doesn't even tell you about it
/seems/ like a good thing if it happens to work in your particular case.
That *isn't* a good thing. Not even nearly. Quite clearly a Bad Thing in fact...
It only
> "Feature"-bloated but useless software
:-)
Is it Emacs or KDE you're meaning?
> are not there because they were never writeen in the first place
What planet have *you* been living on?
From what I've heard, XFree86 4.0 is working towards making a much better job of this kind of thing... no more modelines[1], apparently.
:-)
And yes, you've highlighted the problem with auto-detection: often, it'll go wrong. This is one area where unfortunately Microsoft have the edge... for one thing, it's an area where vast financial resources help significantly. For another, hardware manufacturers are queuing up to kiss the arse of Bill Gates. Open source developers have to (for the most part) scrabble for specs and so on.
[1] Unless you want them
Ham and cheese! That's the best sandwich, without a doubt!
And no mayo, of course. *spit*
> Posix or Perl regexps
It's an absolutely wonderful idea, but I really can't see it ever happening... can you imagine the *enormous* amount of processing power it would take to apply pattern matching to every item in the database?
If you allow arbitrary pattern matching, I really don't see how you can implement any data structure other than a simple list. Which would take absurd lengths of time.
On the other hand, perhaps I'm wrong... it'd definitely make an interesting research project, if nobody has already done it.
What are you talking about? Windows *is* a command-line DOS shell with heavy makeup ;-)
And I wish more focus would be put on *important* projects.
Who gives a fuck about transparent windows and menus? Frigging useless eye candy for arts graduates.
> NIS, for that matter
NIS pales in comparison to *anything*. The fleas on a dead goat would implement a better directory service than NIS. It's more sucky than a very sucky thing.
It should have been brutally killed a long time ago, as should NFS.
Bastards.