Note: only funny when regarding President Bush, not President Carter, a nuclear submarine officer who also pronounces it that way. See also: Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Clinton.
Supercomputers are large-scale vector machines designed for number-crunching capacity.
Well, 6 of the top 500 are, anyway. The rest are plain ol' scalar machines, albeit with gobs of processors ("gobs" being the technical term for "OMG how many?!?").
That wasn't my point at all. I just mean that at least some of the people who would have been contributing to KDE have been working on Gnome, making it even better.
I've also done extensive development in Java, PHP, and Perl. I can tell you that the.Net framework and Visual Studio is by FAR the most productive environment for developing desktop applications
None of those Unix-friendly languages is known for its strong desktop application support. So, how does.NET compare to KDevelop or Xcode for cranking out apps? At least those two aim to compete in the same problem space.
I dislike Gnome more by the day. While I know and fully agree with the idea that you can't make an unpaid programmer work on something he doesn't want to work on, I can't help but wonder where KDE would be if Gnome wasn't siphoning off potential developers. Since it's generally accepted that at least one of Gnome's core developers (Miguel) is a Microsoft patsy, and that FOSS market fragmentation is very convenient for Microsoft, the professional paranoid in me can't help but to see connections even if there aren't any.
Gnome devs: ditch Miguel. I'm not the only person that's starting to look at you guys suspiciously. Guilt by association, you understand.
If everyone likes C# so much, then we should take matters into our own hands and implement a language with the features we like that is under our control!
It's called "Python" (and also goes by the alias "Java"). Hence the complete lack of need for Mono - we already have that functionality in mature, well-tested languages.
As I understand it, several if not most of the licenses allow you to impose additional conditions, for example, that you cannot make money with the software (Ghostscript, for example, is released under both a GPL license recognized by the OSI as "open source" and a commercial license).
That is incorrect. Read the links I posted, particularly the Free Software Definition, which says:
You may have paid money to get copies of free software, or you may have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to sell copies.
No GPL software can prevent you from selling copies of it or otherwise profiting off it.
Even most open source involves minor constraints: a manufacturer cannot provide most open source software without including copies of the agreement and sometimes other constraints (like a guarantee that the software will not be used for military purposes to name an extreme licensing condition that occasionally shows up).
Nitpick: software with such restrictions is not Open Source ("The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.") or Free Software ("The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0)."). You might be able to look at the source code and even modify it under certain restrictions, but it definitely would not be FOSS. Don't refer to it as such because it's factually incorrect and it confuses people unnecessarily.
We have underestimated the number of people running "outdated" versions of our software.
Again reiterating the need for them to check that the OS version is known to be supported, not explicitly known to be unsupported. The former is a finite set; the latter is potentially infinite.
Or even better, don't write binary patches and expect them not to make the system implode.
I'm a big advocate of Microsoft's Trackball Optical which even includes decent Mac drivers. You can configure per-application custom actions for the extra buttons with a passable GUI. Logitech makes some nice stuff but IMHO they don't have anything on Redmond.
"Microsoft: your source for video games and peripherals."
Wrong. That problem would create the situation where you couldn't log into a given account because the password would be rejected. It would absolutely positively not cause a problem that manifests as not being able to log in for a few hours. Really, they're unrelated.
So why doesn't Apple perform testing the upgrade install with APE installed and fix the issues or atleast warn people before releasing the OS if this breaking happens every time?
Screw that. The same logic led Microsoft into the backward compatibility hell it's currently mired in. I think Apple's policy of "if you deliberately break your system then don't blame us" is inconvenient for some users in the short term but much better for all users in the long haul.
because this bunch of gamers are the customers of the gaming companies.
Gamers, as all other Slashdot demographics, are genetically incapable of boycott: "I will not ever buy from Valve again! I will not ever buy from Valve again! I will not... hey, wait, the cake is a lie! Shiny!"
That's easy. A visible, measured, violation of the laws of science.
By "laws" you meant "theories", since nothing in science is set in stone. Violations of the theories of science happen all the time - that's what leads to new knowledge. Examples:
"But, I thought the heavier object would fall faster..."
"What do you mean light moves at the same speed in all directions?"
Isaac Asimov famously said: "it's been said that scientific discoveries don't begin with the fabled "Eureka!" but rather with... "Now, that's funny... ". I think you need to redefine exactly what a "miracle" is.
Likewise Bad Religion's Greg Graffin who has a masters in geology and a PhD in zoology (following a thesis about evolutionary biology). Something about SoCal punk seems to crank out geeks.
download Colors and a DLDI patcher, run the Colors NDS file through the DLDI patcher
I'm asking here for the benefit of everyone else who's scratching their heads at this question:
What is DLDI, why do I need to patch something with it, and why can't the people who are distributing the software put "dldipatch foo" in their Makefile as the last step in compilation so that everyone else doesn't have to do it?
Did you know that mothers-in-law sometimes reasonably assume that the proper way to turn off a computer is to hold the power button for 5 seconds?
Did you know that e3fs can get corrupted?
Did you know that using the phone to walk your mother-in-law through logging into a Ubuntu system (that replaced her WebTV) in single-user mode and fscking the drives can induce seizures in both parties?
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Note: only funny when regarding President Bush, not President Carter, a nuclear submarine officer who also pronounces it that way. See also: Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Clinton.
Well, 6 of the top 500 are, anyway. The rest are plain ol' scalar machines, albeit with gobs of processors ("gobs" being the technical term for "OMG how many?!?").
It's just a handle. You don't really have to live your life by it.
I didn't really expect it either, despite all the "host a party - get shirts" hype. Sighs and goes back to work.
That wasn't my point at all. I just mean that at least some of the people who would have been contributing to KDE have been working on Gnome, making it even better.
There are Slashdotters smaller than XL? Hmmm, must recalculate worldview...
I hosted a party and never even got my T-shirt.
In other news, I may have already won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, but probably not.
None of those Unix-friendly languages is known for its strong desktop application support. So, how does .NET compare to KDevelop or Xcode for cranking out apps? At least those two aim to compete in the same problem space.
I dislike Gnome more by the day. While I know and fully agree with the idea that you can't make an unpaid programmer work on something he doesn't want to work on, I can't help but wonder where KDE would be if Gnome wasn't siphoning off potential developers. Since it's generally accepted that at least one of Gnome's core developers (Miguel) is a Microsoft patsy, and that FOSS market fragmentation is very convenient for Microsoft, the professional paranoid in me can't help but to see connections even if there aren't any.
Gnome devs: ditch Miguel. I'm not the only person that's starting to look at you guys suspiciously. Guilt by association, you understand.
It's called "Python" (and also goes by the alias "Java"). Hence the complete lack of need for Mono - we already have that functionality in mature, well-tested languages.
That is incorrect. Read the links I posted, particularly the Free Software Definition, which says:
No GPL software can prevent you from selling copies of it or otherwise profiting off it.
Nitpick: software with such restrictions is not Open Source ("The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.") or Free Software ("The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0)."). You might be able to look at the source code and even modify it under certain restrictions, but it definitely would not be FOSS. Don't refer to it as such because it's factually incorrect and it confuses people unnecessarily.
Again reiterating the need for them to check that the OS version is known to be supported, not explicitly known to be unsupported. The former is a finite set; the latter is potentially infinite.
Or even better, don't write binary patches and expect them not to make the system implode.
I'm a big advocate of Microsoft's Trackball Optical which even includes decent Mac drivers. You can configure per-application custom actions for the extra buttons with a passable GUI. Logitech makes some nice stuff but IMHO they don't have anything on Redmond.
"Microsoft: your source for video games and peripherals."
Wrong. That problem would create the situation where you couldn't log into a given account because the password would be rejected. It would absolutely positively not cause a problem that manifests as not being able to log in for a few hours. Really, they're unrelated.
[snip OS version check]
(which I just took from the APE source code).
That's commendable, but why is it still running anyway?
Besides, you're testing that backward. It should be
rather than hoping that it will work for all the values between "CURRENT_VERSION_NUMBER" and 1050.Screw that. The same logic led Microsoft into the backward compatibility hell it's currently mired in. I think Apple's policy of "if you deliberately break your system then don't blame us" is inconvenient for some users in the short term but much better for all users in the long haul.
Isn't that Augmentin? How would this be different?
Gamers, as all other Slashdot demographics, are genetically incapable of boycott: "I will not ever buy from Valve again! I will not ever buy from Valve again! I will not... hey, wait, the cake is a lie! Shiny!"
Say what you want, but you know it's true.
I would be hard pressed to think of a less frightening scenario than pissing off a bunch of gamers.
By "laws" you meant "theories", since nothing in science is set in stone. Violations of the theories of science happen all the time - that's what leads to new knowledge. Examples:
"But, I thought the heavier object would fall faster..."
"What do you mean light moves at the same speed in all directions?"
Isaac Asimov famously said: "it's been said that scientific discoveries don't begin with the fabled "Eureka!" but rather with... "Now, that's funny... ". I think you need to redefine exactly what a "miracle" is.
Likewise Bad Religion's Greg Graffin who has a masters in geology and a PhD in zoology (following a thesis about evolutionary biology). Something about SoCal punk seems to crank out geeks.
Fark's that-a-way, kid.
I'm asking here for the benefit of everyone else who's scratching their heads at this question:
What is DLDI, why do I need to patch something with it, and why can't the people who are distributing the software put "dldipatch foo" in their Makefile as the last step in compilation so that everyone else doesn't have to do it?
Did you know that mothers-in-law sometimes reasonably assume that the proper way to turn off a computer is to hold the power button for 5 seconds?
Did you know that e3fs can get corrupted?
Did you know that using the phone to walk your mother-in-law through logging into a Ubuntu system (that replaced her WebTV) in single-user mode and fscking the drives can induce seizures in both parties?