Somebody already did that. IE passed, no other browser did. Although I think the firefox people got working on the bugs it showed up pretty quickly, and the only reason IE passed was because MS has recently incorporated this testing into their standard setup.
Huh? Insult? You are aware that ^H indicates backspace and therefore indicates an attempt at humour, right? Not everyone is out to get the americans. It appeared to me that the "'s" usage was common American usage. The fact that last book on punctuation I read ("Eats, Shoots and Leaves", unsurpisingly) claimed that it was "American English" to write "CD's", I assumed that you were English and would get the reference to old, stuffy upper-class English farts still referring to countries that were once part of the Empire as "the colonies".
I thought that as well. A thousand lines of code is about enough for a small module performing one task. They're saying that *production* code (pulling an example from my work) to implement a "Save As" dialog is going to have 20-30 'defects'? Either their definition of defect is strange, or they're making numbers up.
OnboardC is a full C compiler for PalmOS. There's a Perl for PalmOS project on sourceforge, but it's been in the "planning" stage since 2001, so I wouldn't hold out much hope. TuSSH is an SSH client for PalmOS.
It doesn't seem to want to deal with text files (there is no import feature for the Palm Desktop notepad or memo pad, for example).
I found the lack of a decent text editor so annoying that 18 months ago I started writing a text editor for PalmOS: SiEd. It opens text files straight from SD-Cards, as well as Palm DOC files in main memory. You can use it to convert between the two as well.
There's no logic to it. Petrol is sold in litres, many smaller signs are marked in metres, but we still use miles and pints.
The term UK isn't really used all that much on the mainland, I think mainly because we'd like to pretend Northern Ireland doesn't exist. I refer to myself as British, although I'm English. I doubt many non-football hooligan English people would mind if you called them British/English/'UKian'. Scottish and Welsh people, on the other hand, tend to get a little upset about it.
Most Americans when I was over there thought I was Australian for some bizzare reason.
You have to remember that this guy is writing in the context of the British games magazine market. The style of writing in many of the magazines is a cross between Viz, FHM and the Sun ('Adult' cartoons with fart and dick jokes, Playboy with more articles and tabloid crap for non-Brits). Given that background, I can see why he would want to spark a revolution in games writing.
You can control the power control actions taken on different events through the files in/etc/acpi, or with the config tools. The time from power on to desktop from hibernation is about a third of the full power on time on my laptop - it's a very useful feature.
No, no, no, that's not how you make a Slashdot post. The steps to a proper Slashdot post are well demonstrated by the grandparent post:
1) Skim read the post + (maybe) the first half of the article 2) Find some vaguely similar idea in some unrelated system that has a tiny part of the functionality the article is about. 3) Write an insulting post about the stupidity of the system in the article and how $OTHER_SYSTEM has done this for years 4) ??? 5) Bask in increased sense of self-importance and intelligence after having so definitively proved the stupidity of those so-called-professionals.
Yes, that's what I meant to type. I think my mind is trying to protect me by blocking out the awfulness.
My main annoyances were the l/t confusion, i's and k's.
The *really* brain dead thing was that it actually broke backwards compatibility. With Graffiti 1, every app could assume that a single keydown event produced one unique key. You can't assume that with G2.
Even Palm themselves were caught out by this: just try accessing a menu shortcut that is set as command+k (like the display keyboard command in every app). It's not possible in G2, you get whatever command is bound to command+l instead.
Palm had to go to graffiti 2 because of a lawsuit over it with Xerox. I think Palm has now succesfully appealed the lawsuit result and so could, if they wanted to, go back to Graffiti 1 if they wanted to.
Why they are sticking with G2, I have no idea. It's a horrible system. Or did the developers never have to write words that end in 't'?
Graffiti 1 has much better recognition then Tealscript in my experience. I tried it out for a bit, then figured out how to install Graffiti 1 on my Tungsten E and never looked back.
From the article it's clear that they are basically using Linux to replace the previous kernel they used. They're porting PalmOS as a layer on top of a Linux kernel instead of whatever it was they had before.
Hopefully it will mean a sane development environment for new apps (threads!), while still providing a backwards compatible mode for existing apps.
I just installed Mdk 10.1 on my laptop and desktop for a test, and it looks pretty good. Suspend to disk works nicely on the laptop (old Compaq armada m300), NVIDIA drivers installed easily and wireless (Netgear WG311 v2) on the desktop works fine with the ndiswrapper driver. It's pretty fast and stable so far: definitely better than 10.0, which was very buggy. My only complaints: - default theme in GNOME is nasty - Removable memory cards don't work properly (it doesn't detect card insert/remove like HAL based distros do) - Xemacs is broken, but emacs-X11 works fine - general bugginess in rpmdrake. It stopped seeing CDs after a while, for example.
Yes, of course, there is another equilibrium point.
Whether the earth will be such a nice place to live at that equilibrium, I don't know. Given that atmospheric CO2 has apparently gone up 19% since the 50s and the plant processes that would be absorbing it are reasonably fast acting (presumably plant growth rates change over years/decades rather than centuries), it would appear the new equilibrium will be quite a long way from the old.
where the amounts of CO2 in equations 1 and 2 are the same and these reactions occur over a similar time scale. The total amount of biomass in food plants is reasonably constant over time, or it would run out. So, however much running I do I can't have a net effect on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The fossil fuel cycle is the same basic equations. Equation 2 happens in engines etc.
But by burning fossil fuels you are releasing CO2 that has been locked out of the atmosphere for millions of years at a rate that equation 1 can't hope to compete with. Plants can absorb the CO2 from fossil fuels, but the rate at which they do it is fixed by the amount of plant life available . The amount of CO2 locked back up by fossil fuel formation is effectively zero over the timescale considered (decades/centuries). The total amount of plant life on the planet is much lower than it was in even the recent past.
The head-in-the-sand approach is very strange, given the facts:
1) Greenhouse gases *do* absorb heat. Line up the emission spectrum of the Earth and absorbtion spectrum of CO2, methane etc and you can see the overlap. 2) Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere *are* going up. 3) Small changes in temperature do have drastic effects on the earth.
Surely that alone is enough to make most people at least consider the possibility bad things might happen.
I actually saw that argument used seriously in the Daily Telegraph (right-wing 'serious' UK broadsheet). They were using the figures of CO2 breathed out as when walking as opposed to driving to argue that all the greenhouse gas stuff was left-wing crap as humans "emitted lots of CO2 just breathing"
They even carried on quoting it after some eminent scientist wrote in to point out their idiocy in missing the fact that CO2 production by humans is a closed loop, whereas fossil fuels release stored CO2.
But what is Debian Stable's policy on non-security bugs?
If you stick with stable, will you be stuck with bugs in packages that are fixed in a minor point release of the pacakged software? This could get annoying if so: the users either have to live with the bug or you have to create custom packages, defeating the point of using the distro in the first place.
For example: OpenOffice 1.1.2 has some annoying bugs in it that are fixed in 1.1.3. If I installed a stable debian release with 1.1.2, would 1.1.3 ever be released in the official stable repository, or would I have to add it manually?
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Somebody already did that. IE passed, no other browser did. Although I think the firefox people got working on the bugs it showed up pretty quickly, and the only reason IE passed was because MS has recently incorporated this testing into their standard setup.
Huh? Insult? You are aware that ^H indicates backspace and therefore indicates an attempt at humour, right? Not everyone is out to get the americans.
It appeared to me that the "'s" usage was common American usage. The fact that last book on punctuation I read ("Eats, Shoots and Leaves", unsurpisingly) claimed that it was "American English" to write "CD's", I assumed that you were English and would get the reference to old, stuffy upper-class English farts still referring to countries that were once part of the Empire as "the colonies".
I thought that as well. A thousand lines of code is about enough for a small module performing one task. They're saying that *production* code (pulling an example from my work) to implement a "Save As" dialog is going to have 20-30 'defects'?
Either their definition of defect is strange, or they're making numbers up.
Linux on the desktop would be very dull. Without any userspace, you couldn't do much.
Or are you talking about the operating systems which use Linux as a kernel? In which case, you're offtopic.
I'm working on improving the display part of SiEd at the moment: full-screen display, turning word-wrap off etc.
OnboardC is a full C compiler for PalmOS. There's a Perl for PalmOS project on sourceforge, but it's been in the "planning" stage since 2001, so I wouldn't hold out much hope. TuSSH is an SSH client for PalmOS.
It doesn't seem to want to deal with text files (there is no import feature for the Palm Desktop notepad or memo pad, for example).
I found the lack of a decent text editor so annoying that 18 months ago I started writing a text editor for PalmOS: SiEd. It opens text files straight from SD-Cards, as well as Palm DOC files in main memory. You can use it to convert between the two as well.
There's no logic to it. Petrol is sold in litres, many smaller signs are marked in metres, but we still use miles and pints.
The term UK isn't really used all that much on the mainland, I think mainly because we'd like to pretend Northern Ireland doesn't exist. I refer to myself as British, although I'm English. I doubt many non-football hooligan English people would mind if you called them British/English/'UKian'. Scottish and Welsh people, on the other hand, tend to get a little upset about it.
Most Americans when I was over there thought I was Australian for some bizzare reason.
You have to remember that this guy is writing in the context of the British games magazine market. The style of writing in many of the magazines is a cross between Viz, FHM and the Sun ('Adult' cartoons with fart and dick jokes, Playboy with more articles and tabloid crap for non-Brits).
Given that background, I can see why he would want to spark a revolution in games writing.
You can control the power control actions taken on different events through the files in /etc/acpi, or with the config tools.
The time from power on to desktop from hibernation is about a third of the full power on time on my laptop - it's a very useful feature.
No, no, no, that's not how you make a Slashdot post. The steps to a proper Slashdot post are well demonstrated by the grandparent post:
1) Skim read the post + (maybe) the first half of the article
2) Find some vaguely similar idea in some unrelated system that has a tiny part of the functionality the article is about.
3) Write an insulting post about the stupidity of the system in the article and how $OTHER_SYSTEM has done this for years
4) ???
5) Bask in increased sense of self-importance and intelligence after having so definitively proved the stupidity of those so-called-professionals.
The colonials^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAmericans have different rules for apostrophes. They use "'s" for plural of abbreviations.
I found it worked, but threw too many debugging warnings not related to my app to be useful. Are there some wine settings to improve things?
Yes, that's what I meant to type. I think my mind is trying to protect me by blocking out the awfulness.
My main annoyances were the l/t confusion, i's and k's.
The *really* brain dead thing was that it actually broke backwards compatibility. With Graffiti 1, every app could assume that a single keydown event produced one unique key. You can't assume that with G2.
Even Palm themselves were caught out by this: just try accessing a menu shortcut that is set as command+k (like the display keyboard command in every app). It's not possible in G2, you get whatever command is bound to command+l instead.
Palm had to go to graffiti 2 because of a lawsuit over it with Xerox. I think Palm has now succesfully appealed the lawsuit result and so could, if they wanted to, go back to Graffiti 1 if they wanted to.
Why they are sticking with G2, I have no idea. It's a horrible system. Or did the developers never have to write words that end in 't'?
Graffiti 1 has much better recognition then Tealscript in my experience. I tried it out for a bit, then figured out how to install Graffiti 1 on my Tungsten E and never looked back.
From the article it's clear that they are basically using Linux to replace the previous kernel they used. They're porting PalmOS as a layer on top of a Linux kernel instead of whatever it was they had before.
Hopefully it will mean a sane development environment for new apps (threads!), while still providing a backwards compatible mode for existing apps.
I just installed Mdk 10.1 on my laptop and desktop for a test, and it looks pretty good. Suspend to disk works nicely on the laptop (old Compaq armada m300), NVIDIA drivers installed easily and wireless (Netgear WG311 v2) on the desktop works fine with the ndiswrapper driver. It's pretty fast and stable so far: definitely better than 10.0, which was very buggy.
My only complaints:
- default theme in GNOME is nasty
- Removable memory cards don't work properly (it doesn't detect card insert/remove like HAL based distros do)
- Xemacs is broken, but emacs-X11 works fine
- general bugginess in rpmdrake. It stopped seeing CDs after a while, for example.
These nutters think Will and Grace is depraved (number 8 on their list).
It may not be funny, but it's extremely tame in its references to sex.
Yes, of course, there is another equilibrium point.
Whether the earth will be such a nice place to live at that equilibrium, I don't know. Given that atmospheric CO2 has apparently gone up 19% since the 50s and the plant processes that would be absorbing it are reasonably fast acting (presumably plant growth rates change over years/decades rather than centuries), it would appear the new equilibrium will be quite a long way from the old.
Are you being intentionally stupid?
The human breathing cycle:
1) plant + sun + CO2 -> Biomass(food) + O2
2) Biomass + O2 -> (Human) Energy + CO2
where the amounts of CO2 in equations 1 and 2 are the same and these reactions occur over a similar time scale. The total amount of biomass in food plants is reasonably constant over time, or it would run out. So, however much running I do I can't have a net effect on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The fossil fuel cycle is the same basic equations. Equation 2 happens in engines etc.
But by burning fossil fuels you are releasing CO2 that has been locked out of the atmosphere for millions of years at a rate that equation 1 can't hope to compete with. Plants can absorb the CO2 from fossil fuels, but the rate at which they do it is fixed by the amount of plant life available . The amount of CO2 locked back up by fossil fuel formation is effectively zero over the timescale considered (decades/centuries). The total amount of plant life on the planet is much lower than it was in even the recent past.
The head-in-the-sand approach is very strange, given the facts:
1) Greenhouse gases *do* absorb heat. Line up the emission spectrum of the Earth and absorbtion spectrum of CO2, methane etc and you can see the overlap.
2) Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere *are* going up.
3) Small changes in temperature do have drastic effects on the earth.
Surely that alone is enough to make most people at least consider the possibility bad things might happen.
I actually saw that argument used seriously in the Daily Telegraph (right-wing 'serious' UK broadsheet). They were using the figures of CO2 breathed out as when walking as opposed to driving to argue that all the greenhouse gas stuff was left-wing crap as humans "emitted lots of CO2 just breathing"
They even carried on quoting it after some eminent scientist wrote in to point out their idiocy in missing the fact that CO2 production by humans is a closed loop, whereas fossil fuels release stored CO2.
Haven't we had several hosepipe ban summers since then? I remember at least one from my childhood.
The problem is that most of the rain falls in the west (Cornwall, Wales etc), while most of the people live in the east.
But what is Debian Stable's policy on non-security bugs?
If you stick with stable, will you be stuck with bugs in packages that are fixed in a minor point release of the pacakged software? This could get annoying if so: the users either have to live with the bug or you have to create custom packages, defeating the point of using the distro in the first place.
For example: OpenOffice 1.1.2 has some annoying bugs in it that are fixed in 1.1.3. If I installed a stable debian release with 1.1.2, would 1.1.3 ever be released in the official stable repository, or would I have to add it manually?