For once I'm tired of Linus bashing every microkernel out there before giving it a second look. Linus is certainly opinionated on this issue but the truth is microkernels are ready for prime time and are eating linux for breakfast. Mr. Torvalds should pick up a Free copy of QNX Rtp (free as in "our programmers don't want to work for kudos") and check it out. It should be a real eye opener for him.
If you bothered to read a little about XP you wouldn't be coming with such uninformed blather. XP is exactly the oposit of all that beaurocracy that armchair scientists have been throwing at us for the last few decades (eg. Yurdon, UML, OO to an extent etc.). XP is a very pragmatic approach to coding with all the stupidity left out. They emphasise issues such as writing units tests, creating test procedures before you code the functionality (hence giving you a better understanding of what you're about to code), coding in pairs so that bugs become shallow, no portion of code is "owned" by a single developer etc. Read about it and you might find you're not as long toothed a hacker as you always thought of yourself.
Because timothy is on a XP crash course today. He's not getting the hang of the principles though. Hence an extra writeup especially for his enlightenment.
There you go! Offtopic. Well done moderators! Serves him right for posting stuff that is actually funny on slashdot. Only lame obvious jokes can be moderated as funny. Let's keep the spirit of slashdot intact.
Hmm. Not sure if I comprehend your argument. I guess you're saying that because the data is fine grained it will be easier to pinpoint shows that still have _some_ audience as opposed to virtually nil. The problem with that is that I WANT to have those almost zero audience shows too.
Your other point was that because Tivo is l33t people using it will represent the minority that should have some voice over the content. Again I know some Temptation Island fans that own a Tivo...
Have you heard of the Mosaic project? Not the web browser but the huge database created by UK retailers to pinpoint products to specific postcodes. The end result was that council areas had only frozen fish'n'chips in their stores. And they collected fine grained purchases data too.
If it makes my television viewing better, then I'm all for *anonymous* tracking.
And tell me how is this supposed to make your television viewing better, huh? This will just result in TV program being adjusted to the lowest common denominator (not that it's not already) and quality programs that are targeted at a bit more discerning viewers will disappear altogether. Viewing rate is King after all! Then we will have a flood of Survivor and Temptation Island or whatever the fuck they call it these days and live coverages of school shootings.
Am I the only one looking at these screenshots and thinking "this is underwhelming"? I mean with all the hype surrounding these cards and all the research that went into it I really expected to see a photographic quality 3d in a couple of years. From these cartoonish characters it looks like we're decades away from anything that resembles reality. I for one couldn't tell whether these shots are any better than those of Quake 3. Perhaps I'm missing something significant though. I find this 3d "revolution" disappointing anyway.
The link is already slashdotted and perhaps this was answered in the interview. Can anyone offer a comparative analysis of Berlin and Quartz/Aqua in MacOS X. Is Berlin going to more potent in the future than what Apple is churning out? I have little idea about the two systems but would like to find out more? There are some similarities such as vector drawing, right?
Amen. I just like to add that economic factors can stimulate innovation. But stacks of money are usually less than helpful in spurring innovation.
If a recession is coming (which is still a subject to debate) it may well be beneficial to the tech field. That's simply because in recession companies have to add real value to survive. VC money will be scarce and those competing will have to show something that really can change people's lives not yet another web outfit that sells socks online. Take the UK in the early eighties for instance. That was the time of a big recession there. Huge unemployment in the West Midlands pushed young people to found their own companies which resulted in a software boom of a kind. Most of them were game companies writing for eight bit home computers. Most of those companies no longer exist but when they did (some of them were around for more than 10 years) they produced some amazing games that I still play today.
Open source zealots touch up their screenshots too. For instance every time you see a screenshot of a "transparent" xterminal window it never overlaps with another window. Why not? because it would reveal immediately that the term isn't really transparent. Go over screenshots at themes.org if you don't believe.
Don't know why that would make any difference at all. I think the point of dispute is whether slashdot and similar forums are common carriers or content providers. This is not as clear cut a case as the $cientologists would make us belive.
OT. Perhaps the slashdot crew should seriously consider relocating/. offshore. Haven Co. sounds like a good place and would increase slashdot's "coolness" factor by an order of magnitude.
Nonsense. I had a flamewar with you ages ago here on slashdot about opensource in general and opensourcing mozilla in particular. Back then you insisted that opening up mozilla was the best thing netscape could do. Now you're telling us that only infrastructure software should be opensourced. Well, in my book a web browser is not an infrastructure by any stretch of imagination. You just tend to go with the flow, don't you?
Bollocks I say. Things like that happen over and over. And as always "those things are completely unrelated"! Don't listen to your management they're feeding you horseshit. In fact if I were you I'd be looking for a new job. Eazel is a sure chapter 11 (not that it wasn't from the start).
Consider the morale level of the remaining staff. After a round of layoffs it's never the same as it was before. I worked for a small software shop that one day shut down one of its offices and let the entire staff go. Things never returned back to normal. Soon after the management tried to inflict some team building bullshit on us and the techies (myself including) started leaving in droves. Once they break their pinkslip cherry things are never the same. I recon it's the beginning of the end of eazel.
BTW. You know that the UK is the ONLY country that explicitly prohibits stalking, don't you? In every other country the stalker is free to go on as long as he doesn't hurt the victim phisically.
Britain already has a really bad image - an inbred monarchy, a racist class driven society, slow technology, foot-and-mouth-disease, and mad cow disease. Trust me, surveillance cameras aren't going to make anyone want to go there.
Good God! Where do I begin?
You have abso-fucking-lutely no idea what you're talking about. I spent eight years in Britain and lived in various parts of the country and it's the safest and cleanest place in the world. I'm in Canada right now and it's OK so but in terms of the "community feel factor" it's not even in the same league as the UK. Just go there and see for yourself you uneducated, brainwashed propaganda fed armchair politician. Go to Edinburgh and see how people can go out and enjoy themselves anytime they want without living in the constant fear that some nutcase will one day blow their brains out. As for being inventive I don't think britons have much to be ashamed of (you know what nationality Stephen Hawking is, for example?).
If the cops monitor you, who monitors the cops? Abuse is inevitable.
That's just ridiculous. Would you rather have the American system where citizens take law (read guns) into their own hands? Excellent idea we've already seen how well this american model works.
Trust me, surveillance cameras aren't going to make anyone want to go there.
They don't seem to complain about the lack of people wanting to come there. As far as I know they're struggling to control the influx of all kinds of refugees and economic migrants there.
Konqueror. Try it now and you'll know what I mean. They've made a tremendous amount of progress on it in the last two months alone.
Integration. I mean it's not true that consistent look and feel is for weenies. It simply makes your desktop look that much more professional. Plus the fact that the KDE team goes the extra mile with all of their stuff. Take their help browser for example there I have all I need to have including KDE help, manpages and info pages all available from a single consistent 'shell'. Not a big deal to some perhaps but those nice touches really give KDE the polished feel it's always praised for. There are many other examples in KDE where I tend to go "wow this is neat. I like having it". You should try it for a while as some goodies are not obvious right away. You have to play with it a bit before you discover all the stuff it can do. There is quite a lot of it now.
I have Helix GNOME installed on my system but I don't like it too much. It's godawful slow on my K6II 450MHz with 128MB ram. Any desktop should just fly on a system like this! Anyways GNOME is finally stable but they don't have the apps that KDE has. Konqueror is stellar, KOffice is quite stable now and probably a very nice suite if you're a person that uses this sort of stuff (I generally speaking have no need for an office suite). KDevelop has to be my favourite though. It's megacool how it nicely integrates into the autoconf/make way of doing things. Their front end to GDB rocks although it's not yet as feature complete as DDD but since it's nicely integrated with the rest of the IDE I tend to use it now instead of the old trusty DDD. Last but not least KDE is bigger than the sum of its parts. It boasts a lot of stable code that works here and now. GNOME may have great plans but until those plans become a working code they are just that: plans that may or may not pan out. In my opinion GNOME guys are overdesigning their architecture which will sooner or later get out of date anyways.
Many people may not like my final remark but I can't fail to notice that many KDE developers are German and I think it really shows (think Volksvagen vs Chevvy). I don't like any kind of generalisations but it's hard to dispute that Germans have always had an impressive attention to detail. Oh, and I'm not German by the way.
What about the fact that you can configure them yourself? Every fucking single one of them! KDE is the ONLY single frigging Unix desktop out there that you can use without the mouse. Once you get the carpal tunnel syndrome you'll appreciate why it's so goddamn important to some. Moron.
One word: Icons. KDE icons look more like windows icons compared to GNOME's. Other than that KDE is much better than GNOME on all counts and that's why I use it. But to be fair GNOME does have nicer icons and I wish KDE developers gave up on the rule that evey icon must have a black border around it. It really gives them a "cartoonish" look. Other than that KDE is really superior to GNOME at this stage (though it's still behind W2K but they're moving so fast it's not even funny).
This stuff seems a bit offtopic here anyways;).
Seems to me that there should be enough horsepower in GBA to run Doom or perhaps even Quake1. Is anyone working on a port? Besides how does one go about obtaining a GBA SDK anyway?
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For once I'm tired of Linus bashing every microkernel out there before giving it a second look. Linus is certainly opinionated on this issue but the truth is microkernels are ready for prime time and are eating linux for breakfast. Mr. Torvalds should pick up a Free copy of QNX Rtp (free as in "our programmers don't want to work for kudos") and check it out. It should be a real eye opener for him.
If you bothered to read a little about XP you wouldn't be coming with such uninformed blather. XP is exactly the oposit of all that beaurocracy that armchair scientists have been throwing at us for the last few decades (eg. Yurdon, UML, OO to an extent etc.). XP is a very pragmatic approach to coding with all the stupidity left out. They emphasise issues such as writing units tests, creating test procedures before you code the functionality (hence giving you a better understanding of what you're about to code), coding in pairs so that bugs become shallow, no portion of code is "owned" by a single developer etc. Read about it and you might find you're not as long toothed a hacker as you always thought of yourself.
Because timothy is on a XP crash course today. He's not getting the hang of the principles though. Hence an extra writeup especially for his enlightenment.
According to this post it's not growing fast enough...
There you go! Offtopic. Well done moderators! Serves him right for posting stuff that is actually funny on slashdot. Only lame obvious jokes can be moderated as funny. Let's keep the spirit of slashdot intact.
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You should definitely can[1] about it but I don't know if you should necessarily care though.
note: can == "know" in old Scottish
Your other point was that because Tivo is l33t people using it will represent the minority that should have some voice over the content. Again I know some Temptation Island fans that own a Tivo...
Have you heard of the Mosaic project? Not the web browser but the huge database created by UK retailers to pinpoint products to specific postcodes. The end result was that council areas had only frozen fish'n'chips in their stores. And they collected fine grained purchases data too.
Linus may expect to get a pink slip any day now... Stranger things have happened.
And tell me how is this supposed to make your television viewing better, huh? This will just result in TV program being adjusted to the lowest common denominator (not that it's not already) and quality programs that are targeted at a bit more discerning viewers will disappear altogether. Viewing rate is King after all! Then we will have a flood of Survivor and Temptation Island or whatever the fuck they call it these days and live coverages of school shootings.
Happy viewing!
Am I the only one looking at these screenshots and thinking "this is underwhelming"? I mean with all the hype surrounding these cards and all the research that went into it I really expected to see a photographic quality 3d in a couple of years. From these cartoonish characters it looks like we're decades away from anything that resembles reality. I for one couldn't tell whether these shots are any better than those of Quake 3. Perhaps I'm missing something significant though. I find this 3d "revolution" disappointing anyway.
The link is already slashdotted and perhaps this was answered in the interview. Can anyone offer a comparative analysis of Berlin and Quartz/Aqua in MacOS X. Is Berlin going to more potent in the future than what Apple is churning out? I have little idea about the two systems but would like to find out more? There are some similarities such as vector drawing, right?
If a recession is coming (which is still a subject to debate) it may well be beneficial to the tech field. That's simply because in recession companies have to add real value to survive. VC money will be scarce and those competing will have to show something that really can change people's lives not yet another web outfit that sells socks online. Take the UK in the early eighties for instance. That was the time of a big recession there. Huge unemployment in the West Midlands pushed young people to found their own companies which resulted in a software boom of a kind. Most of them were game companies writing for eight bit home computers. Most of those companies no longer exist but when they did (some of them were around for more than 10 years) they produced some amazing games that I still play today.
Open source zealots touch up their screenshots too. For instance every time you see a screenshot of a "transparent" xterminal window it never overlaps with another window. Why not? because it would reveal immediately that the term isn't really transparent. Go over screenshots at themes.org if you don't believe.
OT. Perhaps the slashdot crew should seriously consider relocating /. offshore. Haven Co. sounds like a good place and would increase slashdot's "coolness" factor by an order of magnitude.
Nonsense. I had a flamewar with you ages ago here on slashdot about opensource in general and opensourcing mozilla in particular. Back then you insisted that opening up mozilla was the best thing netscape could do. Now you're telling us that only infrastructure software should be opensourced. Well, in my book a web browser is not an infrastructure by any stretch of imagination. You just tend to go with the flow, don't you?
Bollocks I say. Things like that happen over and over. And as always "those things are completely unrelated"! Don't listen to your management they're feeding you horseshit. In fact if I were you I'd be looking for a new job. Eazel is a sure chapter 11 (not that it wasn't from the start).
Consider the morale level of the remaining staff. After a round of layoffs it's never the same as it was before. I worked for a small software shop that one day shut down one of its offices and let the entire staff go. Things never returned back to normal. Soon after the management tried to inflict some team building bullshit on us and the techies (myself including) started leaving in droves. Once they break their pinkslip cherry things are never the same. I recon it's the beginning of the end of eazel.
BTW. You know that the UK is the ONLY country that explicitly prohibits stalking, don't you? In every other country the stalker is free to go on as long as he doesn't hurt the victim phisically.
Good God! Where do I begin? You have abso-fucking-lutely no idea what you're talking about. I spent eight years in Britain and lived in various parts of the country and it's the safest and cleanest place in the world. I'm in Canada right now and it's OK so but in terms of the "community feel factor" it's not even in the same league as the UK. Just go there and see for yourself you uneducated, brainwashed propaganda fed armchair politician. Go to Edinburgh and see how people can go out and enjoy themselves anytime they want without living in the constant fear that some nutcase will one day blow their brains out. As for being inventive I don't think britons have much to be ashamed of (you know what nationality Stephen Hawking is, for example?).
If the cops monitor you, who monitors the cops? Abuse is inevitable.
That's just ridiculous. Would you rather have the American system where citizens take law (read guns) into their own hands? Excellent idea we've already seen how well this american model works.
Trust me, surveillance cameras aren't going to make anyone want to go there.
They don't seem to complain about the lack of people wanting to come there. As far as I know they're struggling to control the influx of all kinds of refugees and economic migrants there.
Integration. I mean it's not true that consistent look and feel is for weenies. It simply makes your desktop look that much more professional. Plus the fact that the KDE team goes the extra mile with all of their stuff. Take their help browser for example there I have all I need to have including KDE help, manpages and info pages all available from a single consistent 'shell'. Not a big deal to some perhaps but those nice touches really give KDE the polished feel it's always praised for. There are many other examples in KDE where I tend to go "wow this is neat. I like having it". You should try it for a while as some goodies are not obvious right away. You have to play with it a bit before you discover all the stuff it can do. There is quite a lot of it now.
I have Helix GNOME installed on my system but I don't like it too much. It's godawful slow on my K6II 450MHz with 128MB ram. Any desktop should just fly on a system like this! Anyways GNOME is finally stable but they don't have the apps that KDE has. Konqueror is stellar, KOffice is quite stable now and probably a very nice suite if you're a person that uses this sort of stuff (I generally speaking have no need for an office suite). KDevelop has to be my favourite though. It's megacool how it nicely integrates into the autoconf/make way of doing things. Their front end to GDB rocks although it's not yet as feature complete as DDD but since it's nicely integrated with the rest of the IDE I tend to use it now instead of the old trusty DDD. Last but not least KDE is bigger than the sum of its parts. It boasts a lot of stable code that works here and now. GNOME may have great plans but until those plans become a working code they are just that: plans that may or may not pan out. In my opinion GNOME guys are overdesigning their architecture which will sooner or later get out of date anyways.
Many people may not like my final remark but I can't fail to notice that many KDE developers are German and I think it really shows (think Volksvagen vs Chevvy). I don't like any kind of generalisations but it's hard to dispute that Germans have always had an impressive attention to detail. Oh, and I'm not German by the way.
What about the fact that you can configure them yourself? Every fucking single one of them! KDE is the ONLY single frigging Unix desktop out there that you can use without the mouse. Once you get the carpal tunnel syndrome you'll appreciate why it's so goddamn important to some. Moron.
One word: Icons. KDE icons look more like windows icons compared to GNOME's. Other than that KDE is much better than GNOME on all counts and that's why I use it. But to be fair GNOME does have nicer icons and I wish KDE developers gave up on the rule that evey icon must have a black border around it. It really gives them a "cartoonish" look. Other than that KDE is really superior to GNOME at this stage (though it's still behind W2K but they're moving so fast it's not even funny). ;).
This stuff seems a bit offtopic here anyways
Seems to me that there should be enough horsepower in GBA to run Doom or perhaps even Quake1. Is anyone working on a port? Besides how does one go about obtaining a GBA SDK anyway?
Just a guess though.