Uhh, yeah... When I turn up to work I see cubicles full of engineers and support staff with Sun desktop machines running chip design, simulation and layout software from the likes of Cadence.
You see the bit where I said hello to the inevitable reply saying someone ran Sun on the desktop...
Hello, and commiserations. At the moment Sun's stuff runs CDE doesn't it? Yuck. And I like Sun.
Sun's desktop users are a minority, and you will probably agree with me that the world isn't exactly overflowing with chip design companies. That doesn't make it any less important to you of course, but I still think that my 'most Sun customers' argument holds.
their graphics are overpriced $300, for a re-packaged ATI 8MB card , $1000-$3000 for anything that even approaches nVidias $60-$300 offerings.
Most Sun customers won't even care what graphics card is in the thing - in fact, most won't ever log in. There are some Sun desktops in the universe (Hello to whoever posts a reply saying they use Sun on the desktop), but the vast majority are headless servers running back-end stuff.
As I read it, these warranties only have to be provided if you sell your open-source product, or if you charge money for installation.
In other words, the Red Hat's of this world would have to check that distro they're selling at $50 a pop or whatever actually contains working programs.
Debian, on the other hand, who sell nothing would not be forced to provide a warranty. Neither would I, if I just started up my trifling little open-source project and gave the results away for free. Neither would kernel.org, because they give their results away for free as well.
Interestingly, Red Hat wouldn't have to provide a warranty to me either, since I just download the ISOs. They haven't sold me anything.
Sounds eminently reasonable to me. If I pay for something, I want to know it works. If I'm just aquiring stuff for free, I have no right to demand a warranty from anyone.
Beagle 2, a lander that's part of ESA's next Mars mission, is beginning construction in England.
Please tell me it doesn't use Lucas electrics. Please tell me it doesn't use Lucas electrics. Please tell me it doesn't use Lucas electrics. Please tell me it doesn't use Lucas electrics.
I bought one with Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball and Rogue Leader for exactly the reasons you describe. Rogue Leader has turned out to be a disappointment but the other two are simply fabulous.
I own a PS2 as well, but with the honourable exception of SSX and, to some extent, GT3 (not GTA3) I really haven't had all that much fun out of it. Worms is superb, but that's a PS1 game. Bomberman is good, but that's due out on Nintendo too (and that's a PS1 game too).
I had the choice of getting either an X-Box or a Gamecube, and I plumped for Gamecube because all the X-Box stuff just looked too serious. Getting back to your point, I personally believe the X-Box to be more powerful than the Gamecube and so buying on specs alone I should have bought an X-Box. The reason I didn't was the games line-up: nothing was just straightforward, bright-coloured fun. You're an ex-Nintendo gamer - you know what I mean.
You're a Dr. Who fan and yet you have the balls to point fingers at "no-budget special effects"?
Err........don't know what you mean.
No...the thing is that Doctor Who showed imagination (for most of its life), whereas I think the Star Trek franchices have just bogged down in politics and moralising.
As to the effects - well, yes there were terrible effects in Doctor Who. But always done with style.
The story even mentions our favourite enemy - the Borgs.
Well...I suppose I'm in a Slashdot minority here, but I find the whole Borg thing to be desperately sad.
Reminiscent of Blake's 7 at its very worst, it is yet another in a long line of stick-a-bit-metal-on-'em no-budget special effects to suggest sci-fi. Terrible. You can almost here some kid wandering round in the bedroom going "I..AM..A..ROBOT" in a unconvincing, poor imitation of what they imagine a metallic voice to be.
No thank you.
Cheers, Ian
(should probably state that I don't really like any Trek except the original series and the first two films. Favourite Sci-Fi villains? Hmm...maybe the Sontarans from Doctor Who)
They wouldn't state their pages and DHTML code worked in anything other than IE, and so actually blocked Mozilla from seeing the page. If it wasn't IE (or Netscape 4.7.1 - yes,.1, not any other.), they wouldn't allow it in.
Regarding the second point - yes, I'm going to do that. I already tried to get them to sort it - there's a Bugzilla entry somewhere in the evangelism section regarding Natwest.
Any site I hit that says something asinine like "best viewed with Internet Explorer gets an email from me explaining why I will never bother to use their site, and (in the vast majority of cases, where I find a competitor that does adhere to standards), why I have gone to their competitor instead despite having found their page first.
Funny you should mention that.
I currently have a bank account with NatWest. After they 'upgraded' their site, and.asp's started appearing instead of.jsp's, it became impossible to use their online banking unless you used Internet Explorer.
Annoyed, I decided to hunt out alternatives and found Intelligent Finance, which works fine with Mozilla.
Of course, as well as working fine with Mozilla it also happens to have a drastically better mortgage than the Natwest one I currently have, and I am right now in the process of moving my mortgage over. I am saving, literally, thousands of pounds.
So...Natwest annoying me with locked-in pages lead to me going investigating competitors, which in turns lead me to switch away from Natwest completely.
Consumer preferences in action.
Cheers, Ian
Re:Adaptec AIC7xxx driver broken with patch.
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... it is not the kernel that is broken. Somewhere there is a fault in your SCSI hardware configuration.
Certainly not. A driver's response to broken hardware should never be to segfault. Sounds like both the configuration and the driver need work. Sounds also like this person is a good one to speak to regarding testing which improves the driver.
Imagine you have a web-based e-mail system. And a web-based word-document reader. One written in J2EE and one written in.NET. Click on a word attachment in the e-mail program, any guess as to whether or not it will open in your word-document reader? Answer is nope!
Err...yes, of course it will if you've set the MIME type correctly.
Nice that you want to spend more time with your daughter, but sheesh you haven't married the mother yet? Somewhat ironic in a post about 'pride' in your life.
Good point. Interesting one this. Well, it is for us anyway.
The thing is, we always planned to marry on 1st March 2003. We planned this before the pregnancy, and still are getting married on that date. However, last year we discovered that our daughter was on the way and we had a choice. Should we rush the wedding and change our plans, or should we continue with what we always had in mind?
Our answer was to continue with our original plans, precisely because we had pride both in our daughter and in ourselves. We decided that rushing the wedding would imply there was something shameful about what we had done, and we utterly refute that premise.
Other peoples' choice in that situation may differ, and that is down to their personal belief and draws no criticism from us. Your point about pride is well taken though, and I am happy to confirm that it is precisley due to pride in our new family that we continued with our original plans.
I'm going to have to contend with you there. One of the leading reasons the Germans lost WWII was because they quite literally ran out of gas.
Unrelated to their mechanical ability to fix problems - the ability being discussed in the original post. Petrol is a pure logistics and resource problem.
Um, SOMEONE had to be losed mechanized power if other people were gaining it.
Entirely true of course, and I happily submit to this point - though I will add that it is possible for my unit to gain from your damage whilst your unit gains from mine.
Mechanised power was lost through enemy action destroying it, not because the operators were unaware of how to change the spark plugs.*
*....well, except for the Luftwaffe of course, who designed a plane where to change the spark plugs you actually had to remove the entire engine. Goring may have been many things, but dumb wasn't one of them and as an ex-pilot he immediately ordered that the plane be redesigned. Set them back months.
Plunge into pussy over and over like any piece of trailer trash can do, or create something intellectually challenging which can further your career and give you something to be proud of. Hmm.
Oooh - rude words. How clever. 'Something to be proud of', no doubt.
By the way, did you read the bit about him spending more time with his daughter? That's something to be proud of and arises from correct application of your rude word outburst.
Given the opportunity, I'd also spend more time with my daughter too. Believe me - I've been writing code for 21 years, enjoyed most of it and yet never achieved the same happiness I get from being with my daughter and fiancee.
Because he wasn't 'country pc' and note all countries that could have/did such things like the example he gave, you respond with all the great feats from all other 'colors of the rainbow'. Whatever.
I repeat from the poster:
it is a fact of history that in World War II, American infantry units were the only ones...
This is simply factually incorrect, and since the remainder of the argument was based on this it deserves correction as with any other factual point.
I wasn't glorifying the UK in particular - as I say, all units of every country did this - including the Germans.
It is a fact of history that in World War II, American infantry units were the only ones to get progressively more mechanized as a campaign went on.
Er...speaking as the son of soldier in the Royal Tank Corps, I can emphatically tell you that this 'fact' is wrong. Others did this too.
...just about every man in a US unit had some experience with motor vehicles. Most owned their own; many if not all repaired their own.
As did the UK. In fact, more so as the UK had undergone severe petrol rationing, industrial production had entirely been moved to the war effort thus depriving people of spares, and so tinkering with cars was absolutely required.
I take your point, but please don't be so chauvinistic about it.
Cheers, Ian
Re:I have never really liked USB for certain thing
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My logic has always said, why use up 3 of my computer's 4 USB ports on something that I already have a plug for anyway. Why let the others go to waste?
No reason - in your case don't switch. But future PC designs probably won't have the PS/2 port, so if you're buying new keyboards and mice then it makes sense to buy USB variants.
At the moment, connectors are simply a mess. Just think of the number of different types on a typical, well-equipped PC:
PS/2
USB (sometimes split into 1.1 and 2.0)
Firewire
Serial
Parallel
RCA sockets
MPU-401 compatible (gameport to most, MIDI port to me
S/PDIF
VGA
RJ-45
RJ-11 for modem
Don't now about DVI - does it take a different connected to VGA? If so, add DVI to that lot. Gives you eleven (twelve including DVI) different connecters excluding the power cable, and we haven't started on the internal mess yet.
On the whole, standardising on the smallest number of connectors possible is a good thing. I'd personally like to see USB die as well and everything go firewire (and no, I'm not on a Mac), but that's a pipe-dream that isn't going to happen.
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You see the bit where I said hello to the inevitable reply saying someone ran Sun on the desktop...
Hello, and commiserations. At the moment Sun's stuff runs CDE doesn't it? Yuck. And I like Sun.
Sun's desktop users are a minority, and you will probably agree with me that the world isn't exactly overflowing with chip design companies. That doesn't make it any less important to you of course, but I still think that my 'most Sun customers' argument holds.
Cheers,
Ian
Most Sun customers won't even care what graphics card is in the thing - in fact, most won't ever log in. There are some Sun desktops in the universe (Hello to whoever posts a reply saying they use Sun on the desktop), but the vast majority are headless servers running back-end stuff.
Cheers,
Ian
In other words, the Red Hat's of this world would have to check that distro they're selling at $50 a pop or whatever actually contains working programs.
Debian, on the other hand, who sell nothing would not be forced to provide a warranty. Neither would I, if I just started up my trifling little open-source project and gave the results away for free. Neither would kernel.org, because they give their results away for free as well.
Interestingly, Red Hat wouldn't have to provide a warranty to me either, since I just download the ISOs. They haven't sold me anything.
Sounds eminently reasonable to me. If I pay for something, I want to know it works. If I'm just aquiring stuff for free, I have no right to demand a warranty from anyone.
Cheers,
Ian
Please tell me it doesn't use Lucas electrics.
Please tell me it doesn't use Lucas electrics.
Please tell me it doesn't use Lucas electrics.
Please tell me it doesn't use Lucas electrics.
This could go very wrong...
Cheers,
Ian
"The expected final release date of Kapital 1.0 is in June 2002"
Hmm...
Cheers,
Ian
Do it. You'll have no regrets.
I bought one with Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball and Rogue Leader for exactly the reasons you describe. Rogue Leader has turned out to be a disappointment but the other two are simply fabulous.
I own a PS2 as well, but with the honourable exception of SSX and, to some extent, GT3 (not GTA3) I really haven't had all that much fun out of it. Worms is superb, but that's a PS1 game. Bomberman is good, but that's due out on Nintendo too (and that's a PS1 game too).
I had the choice of getting either an X-Box or a Gamecube, and I plumped for Gamecube because all the X-Box stuff just looked too serious. Getting back to your point, I personally believe the X-Box to be more powerful than the Gamecube and so buying on specs alone I should have bought an X-Box. The reason I didn't was the games line-up: nothing was just straightforward, bright-coloured fun. You're an ex-Nintendo gamer - you know what I mean.
Cheers,
Ian
Err........don't know what you mean.
No...the thing is that Doctor Who showed imagination (for most of its life), whereas I think the Star Trek franchices have just bogged down in politics and moralising.
As to the effects - well, yes there were terrible effects in Doctor Who. But always done with style.
Cheers,
Ian
No...because then you'd need multiple inheritance again.
Cheers,
Ian
Well, unless you happen to be a mouse of course. The mice will run the other way.
I leave it to the reader to decide if they are inventor or mouse in a DRM situation.
Cheers,
Ian
Worse - doesn't even have to be recorded yet. One person has the idea for the music, and you already know it.
Of course, this does mean the eventual mass-lynching of anyone who writes for N'Sync, Britney et. al., so it can't be all bad.
Cheers,
Ian
Or even 'hear'. Oops.
Cheers,
Ian
Well...I suppose I'm in a Slashdot minority here, but I find the whole Borg thing to be desperately sad.
Reminiscent of Blake's 7 at its very worst, it is yet another in a long line of stick-a-bit-metal-on-'em no-budget special effects to suggest sci-fi. Terrible. You can almost here some kid wandering round in the bedroom going "I..AM..A..ROBOT" in a unconvincing, poor imitation of what they imagine a metallic voice to be.
No thank you.
Cheers,
Ian
(should probably state that I don't really like any Trek except the original series and the first two films. Favourite Sci-Fi villains? Hmm...maybe the Sontarans from Doctor Who)
Well...I find interfaces to be done fairly badly, to be honest. I would like to be able to provide a default implementation for interface methods.
Of course, once you've done that you're half-way to multiple inheritence anyway. But half-way, not the full way.
Cheers,
Ian
They wouldn't state their pages and DHTML code worked in anything other than IE, and so actually blocked Mozilla from seeing the page. If it wasn't IE (or Netscape 4.7.1 - yes, .1, not any other .), they wouldn't allow it in.
Regarding the second point - yes, I'm going to do that. I already tried to get them to sort it - there's a Bugzilla entry somewhere in the evangelism section regarding Natwest.
Cheers,
Ian
Funny you should mention that.
I currently have a bank account with NatWest. After they 'upgraded' their site, and .asp's started appearing instead of .jsp's, it became impossible to use their online banking unless you used Internet Explorer.
Annoyed, I decided to hunt out alternatives and found Intelligent Finance, which works fine with Mozilla.
Of course, as well as working fine with Mozilla it also happens to have a drastically better mortgage than the Natwest one I currently have, and I am right now in the process of moving my mortgage over. I am saving, literally, thousands of pounds.
So...Natwest annoying me with locked-in pages lead to me going investigating competitors, which in turns lead me to switch away from Natwest completely.
Consumer preferences in action.
Cheers,
Ian
Certainly not. A driver's response to broken hardware should never be to segfault. Sounds like both the configuration and the driver need work. Sounds also like this person is a good one to speak to regarding testing which improves the driver.
Cheers,
Ian
Err...yes, of course it will if you've set the MIME type correctly.
Cheers,
Ian
Good point. Interesting one this. Well, it is for us anyway.
The thing is, we always planned to marry on 1st March 2003. We planned this before the pregnancy, and still are getting married on that date. However, last year we discovered that our daughter was on the way and we had a choice. Should we rush the wedding and change our plans, or should we continue with what we always had in mind?
Our answer was to continue with our original plans, precisely because we had pride both in our daughter and in ourselves. We decided that rushing the wedding would imply there was something shameful about what we had done, and we utterly refute that premise.
Other peoples' choice in that situation may differ, and that is down to their personal belief and draws no criticism from us. Your point about pride is well taken though, and I am happy to confirm that it is precisley due to pride in our new family that we continued with our original plans.
Cheers,
Ian
Christ no man. I was far worse.
Cheers,
Ian
Unrelated to their mechanical ability to fix problems - the ability being discussed in the original post. Petrol is a pure logistics and resource problem.
Cheers,
Ian
Entirely true of course, and I happily submit to this point - though I will add that it is possible for my unit to gain from your damage whilst your unit gains from mine.
Mechanised power was lost through enemy action destroying it, not because the operators were unaware of how to change the spark plugs.*
*....well, except for the Luftwaffe of course, who designed a plane where to change the spark plugs you actually had to remove the entire engine. Goring may have been many things, but dumb wasn't one of them and as an ex-pilot he immediately ordered that the plane be redesigned. Set them back months.
Cheers,
Ian
Oooh - rude words. How clever. 'Something to be proud of', no doubt.
By the way, did you read the bit about him spending more time with his daughter? That's something to be proud of and arises from correct application of your rude word outburst.
Given the opportunity, I'd also spend more time with my daughter too. Believe me - I've been writing code for 21 years, enjoyed most of it and yet never achieved the same happiness I get from being with my daughter and fiancee.
Cheers,
Ian
I repeat from the poster: it is a fact of history that in World War II, American infantry units were the only ones...
This is simply factually incorrect, and since the remainder of the argument was based on this it deserves correction as with any other factual point.
I wasn't glorifying the UK in particular - as I say, all units of every country did this - including the Germans.
Cheers,
Ian
Er...speaking as the son of soldier in the Royal Tank Corps, I can emphatically tell you that this 'fact' is wrong. Others did this too.
As did the UK. In fact, more so as the UK had undergone severe petrol rationing, industrial production had entirely been moved to the war effort thus depriving people of spares, and so tinkering with cars was absolutely required.
I take your point, but please don't be so chauvinistic about it.
Cheers,
Ian
No reason - in your case don't switch. But future PC designs probably won't have the PS/2 port, so if you're buying new keyboards and mice then it makes sense to buy USB variants.
At the moment, connectors are simply a mess. Just think of the number of different types on a typical, well-equipped PC:
- PS/2
- USB (sometimes split into 1.1 and 2.0)
- Firewire
- Serial
- Parallel
- RCA sockets
- MPU-401 compatible (gameport to most, MIDI port to me
- S/PDIF
- VGA
- RJ-45
- RJ-11 for modem
Don't now about DVI - does it take a different connected to VGA? If so, add DVI to that lot. Gives you eleven (twelve including DVI) different connecters excluding the power cable, and we haven't started on the internal mess yet.On the whole, standardising on the smallest number of connectors possible is a good thing. I'd personally like to see USB die as well and everything go firewire (and no, I'm not on a Mac), but that's a pipe-dream that isn't going to happen.
Cheers,
Ian