Then you'll like a lot of Post-Rock, which is the genre ToD is kinda part of. Maybe try listening to;
Victory at Sea
Mogwai (tho you'll probably have heard of them too)
Do Make Say Think
90 Day Men
Xiu Xiu
Fin Fang Foom
Queens of the Stone Age
tlhf
xxx
Oh, and everyone knows that any article mentioning music requires an At The Drive-In reference:D
Make sure the Formatting system is on 'Plain Old Text', or on 'HTML Formatted'. Then type;
<a href="http://url">Link Name</a>
Except with http://url changed to your url. And remember, you must have the http:// part.
I'm sorry, but this has to be one of the biggest fallacies in the open source world. MySQL is not a decent SQL server. In fact, it's hard to call MySQL an SQL server at all, being as it's 'support' for SQL standards is absurd - the project makes up keywords as it goes along. It's far more accurate it to consider it an abstraction to the file system. There are no subselects, nor stored SQL procedures. If MySQL was non-free but with exactly the same codebase it would be ripped apart by the programming intelligensia.
PostgreSQL is better, but has an archilies heal with hard coded attribute sizes.
tlhf
xxx
I'm sorry, but MS SQL is more comparative with Oracle or DB2 than either of the free databases.
Wal-Mart has asked artists and their labels to clean up records for years, but the issue crystallized with a recent New York Times article and the retailer's banning of Sheryl Crow's new album because of the lyric: "Watch our children as they kill each other with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores." Crow refused to change the verse. Her' new single, "Every Day Is a Winding Road," is stocked by Wal-Mart, and so is her' previous album, but the new self-tided disc is not.
[and later on, talking about other bands coerced by Walmart;]
The Butthole Suffers agreed to change their name to B*** II*** Surfers on CD jackets. John Mellencamp recently agreed to airbrush out images of Jesus Christ and the devil on his latest CD, "Mr. Happy-Go-Lucky."
Congratulations! Most people actually wait meet someone in person or interact with them before making such judgements, but in your 21 meager years on this planet you've acquired enough wisdom to do that after reading (what appears to be from my weblogs) a whole single web page!
It's actually 18. I apologise for being young.
What a coincidence that we should both be born on the 99.943% share of the planets surface where you can get data off the Internet with the right equipment!
I was talking about economic position. The right equipment doesn't grow on trees.
If I lived in a place were 6 million children die annually, the last think I'd be worried about would be an Internet connection.
You do. It's called Earth.
We're privileged to live where we live. Oh, but wait, I forgot, we earned our privilege.
Hold on there, shitbrick. From what I've seen of your life from your website, you haven't earned jack.
I was being sarcastic.
Okay, here's what I make of it: You're an ignorant pussy. Ignorant: because you spew a set of conflictory ideas which in no way form a sequiter set of beliefs, much less a paradigm of philosophy that would allow you to fit into any of the labels you used above.
Right. I believe prominently in both social and economic freedom. I should be able to do whatever the hell I like, as long as it doesn't directly harm anyone else (Mill's harm principle). Thus Libertarian. But I also want to live in a world of both meritocracy and social responsibility, where people can't fall out of society. Where people aren't defined by the position in which they are born; eg, a Malaysian child having the same opportunity as a British child. Thus Social Democrat.
I see no massive conflict there. The ideas I have taken from both Libertarianism and Social Democracy mesh quite well. Ok, there's conflicts with taxation, but that's about it. I ignore the Libertarian views on taxation:D.
Pussy: You're a pussy because you lack the testicular fortitude to admit that while you appreciate the populist propoganda fronted by each of the groups you mention above, you really are afraid to belong to any one of them out of fear that you might polarize the remainder against you.
I want people to have the freedom to do what they want as long as they don't directly harm others. I want people to have equal opportunity. - That is what I believe. If you think I'm a pussy for believing it, then I'll be a pussy in your eyes.
In light of that, I still check the labels on clothes before I buy them to ensure they weren't made by 4 year old Bangladeshi girls, I drive a wussy gas-sipping LEV-rated four banger that I only fill with gas from stations whose refineries don't import Mid-East or African oil, and I warn all the women around me about buying diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and other gemstones without knowing the country of origin - and the impact of the gemstone trade on their aboriginal populaces.
Which I find eminently respectable.
I also give generously to the wino on the corner (but mainly because he's an honest wino: His sign reads "Hopeless Drunk, need money for booze").
I wouldn't give generously to him. He's the one type I wouldn't give money to. I buy the big issue; at least those people are doing something; the ones who just sit there can fuck off. I don't say we should give handouts to anyone, just handouts to give people a degree of opertunity.
* No, these are not ad hominem attacks against your logic, but personal attacks against what based on what you have said in the previous post.
That's what ad hominem means you dumbass. In any event, none of your comments had jack to do with my comments, which makes you fair game as flamebait.
What I meant was that while I accepted that it was ad hominem, I was trying to say that I didn't give a fuck - that it was a personal attack. And yes, it was flamebait. Ha!
Sorry, I don't usually flame like that, but I looked at your website and you're an utter self righteous cock. You earned your internet connection? No, you (and I) were lucky to be born in a situation where internet accessible. Come to think of it, we're lucky not to have been born as the 6 million children who die annually. We're privileged to live where we live. Oh, but wait, I forgot, we earned our privilege. Now I'm not a socialist, more of a social democrat with certain libertarian leanings (make of that what you will), but how you can ignore mass suffering and exploitation?
* No, these are not ad hominem attacks against your logic, but personal attacks against what based on what you have said in the previous post.
Which means, with the legal buying beer in [pubs|shops] age of 18, and considering how those ages are enforced over here, he should be able to drink in 2, maybe 3 days time:D
tlhf
xxx
Or maybe he could just ask his parents to buy it for him, it's legal from 5+ (I think) to drink over here with your parents consent.
Also, your linked article talks about a compiler which compiles itself. IE, GCC recognising GCC. Having GCC regocnise BCC, VC++, et al would be insanly difficult. Even more so in this case as Mono is being released after the Microsoft compiler.
ASCII's all well and good, but not everyone uses the roman alphabet. You honestly expect the Thai, or Chinese, or Japanese to store all their data in plain ASCII? Also, what about text data which is unable to be displayed in ASCII such as scientific equations or charts? ASCII drawings are honestly evil.
And am I the only person fed up of getting apostrophes converted to little boxes when put through various emailers? I can honestly say than I believe ASCII is a legacy format. 8 bits just simply dain't cut it no more.
tlhf
xxx
And anyway, ASCII is implicity WYSIWYG. Or did it just feel nice cussing a buzzword?
I'm not gonna bother with a proper reply, as I'm pretty sure that you're a troll..Net, although similar in some respects to Java, isn't Java. It has no Java code, or anythin like that.
SWING, JDBC?.Net uses Windows Forms and ADO.net. You are but a fool. If you really want to know about.net, read about it in this article on ArsTechnica.
I don't know why people think X is so horrible. X just destroys Windows as a windowing system. The only plus Windows has it that it has better hardware support. Other than that, X blows Windows away.
Seriously. Maybe if you're running XFree86 on your whizzedy-pop [Athlon|PIII] box, but some of us are poor ass students who get whatever's given to them. Sometimes literally.
I'll try not to boast, but I for one have a state of the art (circa-never) Cyrix 300 (running at ~216MHz), 128mb of RAM, and an ATI XPert 98. When I'm using Windows 2000 I get a fairly responsive system - IE is quick, loading in about 3 secs, Word doesn't seam too slow, also loading in 3 secs. Editplus, WMP6 and WinAmp load in roughly a second each. Windows/Mozilla appeared in on 12 seconds.
When on Linux/X/KDE2 the system was far from snappy, and close to being unusable. X/Mozilla loaded in about 25 seconds, XEmacs in about 8, Konquerer in about 10, XMMS in about 6. I tried Gnome at one point, and it was a little faster, but still far slower. But it wasn't just boot times; XFree86 couldn't resize in realtime in any sense. Resizing a slashdot window in Windows/IE is no problem, and at a very rough estimate about 10fps, and even Windows/Mozilla at a usable 5. For me it's a completely different story under XFree86: Mozilla and Konquerer both resized at about 1fps, which is unusable.
Man, people piss me off sometimes... I wish people would actually read something about X before bitching about it on/.
I will be honest with you - I've probably spent less than half an hour reading XFree86 docs. But does that mean I can't critique it? Does that mean that when I'm using it that it's of an acceptable speed? Does it fluck.
tlhf
Notes to the possible responses:
Yes, I have used [Gnome|TWM]. Yes, I will accept it's faster than KDE2. No, it's still not as fast.
No, I'm not astro-turfing, in fact I prefer BeOS. If only BeOS had multi-user support and memory protection. Long live Glass Elevator!
The system those times are off was Mandrake 8.0. I've also run DemoLinux 3 on my PC, and FreeBSD. XFree86 was still slow.
Yes, all those times are fairly rough estimates, and probably upto 75% off each. No, this doesn't make my point wrong. Any idiot with a slow PC will tell you XFree86 is s l o w.
Yes, all those tests were done on a first run, no caching. I'm not thick. Except maybe IE, which manages to have itself constantly cached due to half being in the OS.
Yes, the memory usage was about the same on both (roughly 80mb after a boot).
Yes, I know parts of the Win2k GUI are at a lower level than X. And yet I don't care, for my desktop PC
The scary thing is, I think some people will believe that...
".Net is at the moment, still crystallizing into a vision/API of "pay as you go" services."
No, it's various things. A common language runtime - a bytecode executable which will run on any compatible JIT compiler - whether it be on x86, Alpha, or some future Nokia phone. A standard set of APIs and a standard class library. Much like those provided with J2EE. Also under the.Net label are such things as the compilers, the languages, and certain *optional* web services such as hotmail and hailstorm.
"That means when you build a.net app, Redmond gets a percentage of your use time out of it."
Lies, lies, and more lies. This is simply not true at all. Sure it's possible to create applications which use the Microsoft web services, but it's by no mean necessary, or even nearly manditory.
"2) You are literally stuck on PC hardware. You can't get anywhere further than that without a.Net core services server too approve and monitor your use of.Net services. (After all, Uncle Bill needs to get his cut when you pay as you go, minute by minute, transaction by transaction, or month to month...) "
Not true again. Pretty much the whole point of VMs and JITs is that they are hardware and platform independent. Microsoft, with the help or Coral I believe, is writing a JIT compiler for FreeBSD, and the Mono is creating a fully open implementation for IA32 Linux, with other platforms and architectures to follow.
What are you talking about with a.Net core services server?
"Can't you wait to get your hands on that just released.Net API and development IDE? "
Well, the APIs been released for a good year now or so with only minor changes in the betas. But, like everything here, you're talking just plain rubbish.
I very much think you should read the Mono FAQ here: http://www.go-mono.com/faq.html
I've seen a couple of your posts now, and jesus, you're a fucking moron. He was refering to the religion that we could call slashdotism, and implying that he was the misunderstood antagonist. Also, as previously stated, this settlement has nothing to do with the DOJ anti-trust trial.
Slashdot Mirror
Then you'll like a lot of Post-Rock, which is the genre ToD is kinda part of. Maybe try listening to;
:D
Victory at Sea
Mogwai (tho you'll probably have heard of them too)
Do Make Say Think
90 Day Men
Xiu Xiu
Fin Fang Foom
Queens of the Stone Age
tlhf
xxx
Oh, and everyone knows that any article mentioning music requires an At The Drive-In reference
How to insert a URL on Slashdot.
Make sure the Formatting system is on 'Plain Old Text', or on 'HTML Formatted'. Then type;
<a href="http://url">Link Name</a>
Except with http://url changed to your url. And remember, you must have the http:// part.
tlhf
xxx
I'm sure this is on a FAQ somewhere.
I'm sorry, but this has to be one of the biggest fallacies in the open source world. MySQL is not a decent SQL server. In fact, it's hard to call MySQL an SQL server at all, being as it's 'support' for SQL standards is absurd - the project makes up keywords as it goes along. It's far more accurate it to consider it an abstraction to the file system. There are no subselects, nor stored SQL procedures. If MySQL was non-free but with exactly the same codebase it would be ripped apart by the programming intelligensia.
PostgreSQL is better, but has an archilies heal with hard coded attribute sizes.
tlhf
xxx
I'm sorry, but MS SQL is more comparative with Oracle or DB2 than either of the free databases.
http://www.antitrust.org/cases/walmart/walmart.ht
http://www.massmic.com/walmart.html [there is an informative Boston Globe Article at the bottom of the page];
It's actually 18. I apologise for being young.
I was talking about economic position. The right equipment doesn't grow on trees.
You do. It's called Earth.
I was being sarcastic.
Right. I believe prominently in both social and economic freedom. I should be able to do whatever the hell I like, as long as it doesn't directly harm anyone else (Mill's harm principle). Thus Libertarian. But I also want to live in a world of both meritocracy and social responsibility, where people can't fall out of society. Where people aren't defined by the position in which they are born; eg, a Malaysian child having the same opportunity as a British child. Thus Social Democrat.
I see no massive conflict there. The ideas I have taken from both Libertarianism and Social Democracy mesh quite well. Ok, there's conflicts with taxation, but that's about it. I ignore the Libertarian views on taxation
I want people to have the freedom to do what they want as long as they don't directly harm others. I want people to have equal opportunity. - That is what I believe. If you think I'm a pussy for believing it, then I'll be a pussy in your eyes.
Which I find eminently respectable.
I wouldn't give generously to him. He's the one type I wouldn't give money to. I buy the big issue; at least those people are doing something; the ones who just sit there can fuck off. I don't say we should give handouts to anyone, just handouts to give people a degree of opertunity.
What I meant was that while I accepted that it was ad hominem, I was trying to say that I didn't give a fuck - that it was a personal attack. And yes, it was flamebait. Ha!
Everyone knows that all open source programmers are white.
You wanker.
Sorry, I don't usually flame like that, but I looked at your website and you're an utter self righteous cock. You earned your internet connection? No, you (and I) were lucky to be born in a situation where internet accessible. Come to think of it, we're lucky not to have been born as the 6 million children who die annually. We're privileged to live where we live. Oh, but wait, I forgot, we earned our privilege. Now I'm not a socialist, more of a social democrat with certain libertarian leanings (make of that what you will), but how you can ignore mass suffering and exploitation?
* No, these are not ad hominem attacks against your logic, but personal attacks against what based on what you have said in the previous post.
There is no cmd.exe on Windows 98...
tlhf - xxx - moof!
Personally, I would have been far more impressed with something far more elegant, insightful, or amusing.
Even a little golf, ala would have been more interesting.
tlhf - xxx - Obfu Perl sucks, unless it does something new
I can find absolutely no evidence that LMBench was even ported to BeOS, let alone that it shew that it was slower.
Look for yourself
.He's a UKer...
Which means, with the legal buying beer in [pubs|shops] age of 18, and considering how those ages are enforced over here, he should be able to drink in 2, maybe 3 days time :D
tlhf
xxx
Or maybe he could just ask his parents to buy it for him, it's legal from 5+ (I think) to drink over here with your parents consent.
Yeah, not like there are any other examples of open source software based on proprietry software.
tlhf
xxx
Also, your linked article talks about a compiler which compiles itself. IE, GCC recognising GCC. Having GCC regocnise BCC, VC++, et al would be insanly difficult. Even more so in this case as Mono is being released after the Microsoft compiler.
ASCII's all well and good, but not everyone uses the roman alphabet. You honestly expect the Thai, or Chinese, or Japanese to store all their data in plain ASCII? Also, what about text data which is unable to be displayed in ASCII such as scientific equations or charts? ASCII drawings are honestly evil.
And am I the only person fed up of getting apostrophes converted to little boxes when put through various emailers? I can honestly say than I believe ASCII is a legacy format. 8 bits just simply dain't cut it no more.
tlhf
xxx
And anyway, ASCII is implicity WYSIWYG. Or did it just feel nice cussing a buzzword?
I'm not gonna bother with a proper reply, as I'm pretty sure that you're a troll. .Net, although similar in some respects to Java, isn't Java. It has no Java code, or anythin like that.
.Net uses Windows Forms and ADO.net. You are but a fool. If you really want to know about .net, read about it in this article on ArsTechnica.
SWING, JDBC?
tlhf
xxx
You muppet
Yeah, all the irish say "feck".
Call me a crackhead whore, but who would want such an anarchaic filesystem?
:D)
Give me a formatting of XFS or Reiser anyday. (Or even better; BFS
tlhf
Yes, I said BFS.
I'll try not to boast, but I for one have a state of the art (circa-never) Cyrix 300 (running at ~216MHz), 128mb of RAM, and an ATI XPert 98. When I'm using Windows 2000 I get a fairly responsive system - IE is quick, loading in about 3 secs, Word doesn't seam too slow, also loading in 3 secs. Editplus, WMP6 and WinAmp load in roughly a second each. Windows/Mozilla appeared in on 12 seconds.
When on Linux/X/KDE2 the system was far from snappy, and close to being unusable. X/Mozilla loaded in about 25 seconds, XEmacs in about 8, Konquerer in about 10, XMMS in about 6. I tried Gnome at one point, and it was a little faster, but still far slower. But it wasn't just boot times; XFree86 couldn't resize in realtime in any sense. Resizing a slashdot window in Windows/IE is no problem, and at a very rough estimate about 10fps, and even Windows/Mozilla at a usable 5. For me it's a completely different story under XFree86: Mozilla and Konquerer both resized at about 1fps, which is unusable. I will be honest with you - I've probably spent less than half an hour reading XFree86 docs. But does that mean I can't critique it? Does that mean that when I'm using it that it's of an acceptable speed? Does it fluck.
tlhf
Notes to the possible responses:
Yes, I have used [Gnome|TWM]. Yes, I will accept it's faster than KDE2. No, it's still not as fast. No, I'm not astro-turfing, in fact I prefer BeOS. If only BeOS had multi-user support and memory protection. Long live Glass Elevator! The system those times are off was Mandrake 8.0. I've also run DemoLinux 3 on my PC, and FreeBSD. XFree86 was still slow. Yes, all those times are fairly rough estimates, and probably upto 75% off each. No, this doesn't make my point wrong. Any idiot with a slow PC will tell you XFree86 is s l o w. Yes, all those tests were done on a first run, no caching. I'm not thick. Except maybe IE, which manages to have itself constantly cached due to half being in the OS. Yes, the memory usage was about the same on both (roughly 80mb after a boot). Yes, I know parts of the Win2k GUI are at a lower level than X. And yet I don't care, for my desktop PC
The scary thing is, I think some people will believe that...
.Net label are such things as the compilers, the languages, and certain *optional* web services such as hotmail and hailstorm.
.net app, Redmond gets a percentage of your use time out of it."
.Net core services server too approve and monitor your use of .Net services. (After all, Uncle Bill needs to get his cut when you pay as you go, minute by minute, transaction by transaction, or month to month...) "
.Net core services server?
.Net API and development IDE? "
".Net is at the moment, still crystallizing into a vision/API of "pay as you go" services."
No, it's various things. A common language runtime - a bytecode executable which will run on any compatible JIT compiler - whether it be on x86, Alpha, or some future Nokia phone. A standard set of APIs and a standard class library. Much like those provided with J2EE. Also under the
"That means when you build a
Lies, lies, and more lies. This is simply not true at all. Sure it's possible to create applications which use the Microsoft web services, but it's by no mean necessary, or even nearly manditory.
"2) You are literally stuck on PC hardware. You can't get anywhere further than that without a
Not true again. Pretty much the whole point of VMs and JITs is that they are hardware and platform independent. Microsoft, with the help or Coral I believe, is writing a JIT compiler for FreeBSD, and the Mono is creating a fully open implementation for IA32 Linux, with other platforms and architectures to follow.
What are you talking about with a
"Can't you wait to get your hands on that just released
Well, the APIs been released for a good year now or so with only minor changes in the betas. But, like everything here, you're talking just plain rubbish.
I very much think you should read the Mono FAQ here: http://www.go-mono.com/faq.html
tlhf
xxx
Everyone loves a SlashDrone!
I've seen a couple of your posts now, and jesus, you're a fucking moron. He was refering to the religion that we could call slashdotism, and implying that he was the misunderstood antagonist. Also, as previously stated, this settlement has nothing to do with the DOJ anti-trust trial.
The same could be said for grammar and spelling.
Yes, it is your damn fault for getting that worm. If you're gonna have unpassworded sql servers, at least have some sort of IP block.
sub dual {
# Second output denotes error
return("Some output", 0);
}
if ((my($message, $error) = dual()) && $error){
print "Worked: $message\n";
}else{
print "Failed: $message\n";
}
Works fine for me.
I've had my Win2k on my Desktop (Cyrix 300/64mb) for about a year and it's never crashed.
Why? I've got good drivers for it. Get decent drivers, and your PC shalt never freeze.
Repeat an Action: Macros.
Programming: Delphi, MS Visual Studio
Remember, GUI != Mouse
Sir, you are a fool.