It's too bad SourceXChange is defunct. I spent a summer coding for them when I was 15. It seems like making a profit off of young coders doesn't work as well as just funding them.
Glad to see that "ethics" and "moral responsibility" are alive and well.
Dr. Neal Krawetz, your whining is laughable. First, Lance has no felonies. Second, I've never worked for Lance, at least I've never been paid. Although we have done research together in the past.
Perhaps next time you should slander under your own name? It must be upsetting to not have become as successful as one of your peers, but that's no reason to slander him.
The computers should have been auctioned or a lottery could have been set up to allow only a certain number to purchase them. The way it was setup was very irresponsible -- like throwing 150,000 dollars cash into the middle of a busy street!! (Really, if you guess a $200 market value on each of these that's ($200-$50)*$1000=$150,000 dollars into the street).
I was just thinking to myself yesterday how nice it would be if Blender went OSS. We've needed a nice open source 3D editor, and now I don't have to start a project to write one from scratch. Good deal.
I think one of the greatest things about dvds is that the director can show you multiple ways to watch the same movie. Once you're done with a movie, if you really like it, you can listen to the director talk about how he made it. I did this for American Beauty.
Also more directors are able to put out the movie in wide screen, and I'm sure they love that. It's much more similar to the actual way we view things, and the film doesn't have to be "modified the film to fit your screen".
I thought that someone had created a program that drove mindstorms robots to create mosaics of websites... Since the first graphical browser was called Mosiac. THAT would be cool. It'd take a while to display 'em though.
I have a full copy of Office for OS X 10.1. I'm running it right now. It's written using Carbon an Cocoa which are distinctly Macintosh libraries. Without reimplementing those systems, which is much of what Apple has been doing for the last... 10 years, there is no way office would run on Linux/Unix.
Right now porting Office in itself to Linux probably would be just as much of an undertaking as porting it to the Mac and Mac OS X was.
I think if we see Office every for Linux, it will most likely be running on wine or one of the free.NET implementations.
I had the heatsink sorta fail. We think that the fan stalled, and that led the processor to heat up. It ended up killing my motherboard, but oddly not my precessor. I bought a new motherboard, and got a big heatsink along with some extra case fans, and now the system works fine.
I'm impressed that that heat could fry the mobo but NOT The processor, it's sort of weird actually. But there are a whole lot of things on most motherboards right next to the processor, and on mine they all looked slightly burned.
sort of how we all switched away from UPS and FedEx when people started sending mailbombs?
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you're right. I feel like an idiot.
libgnomeprint11 is still broken, but it isn't attached to evolution anymore (maybe at one point something that evolution depends on depended on it).
Anyways, sorry for the harsh words, and on with the bugchecking.
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I realize ximian "doesn't really have time" to guarantee compatability with Debian-unstable, but I know a lot of people who use unstable. If you use unstable, in general you're the kind of person who would report a bug when a program crashes.
For MONTHS there has been a dumb bug with libgnomeprint11 (their version) that makes it never install on any of my machines. Thanks guys, I hope you get those bugs checked soon, but not by me, even though I was willing.
That and they're trying to force everyone to use redcarpet when I really perfer apt, especially since redcarpet is buggy.
This isn't a flame, it's more like me crying because nothing ever makes any sense. I think Miguel & co are great folks, and I hope they do well.
I own stock in apple, lucent, beos, and palm. There are no real XML-RPC companies, userland developed XML-RPC and they are not publicly traded. Yes, apple is baking XML-RPC into it's OS, but you know what, MS is doing something similar with SOAP, and kde supports XML-RPC too.
Don't be so paranoid, just because someone loves a technology and owns stocks in companies that might possibly be related to it doesn't mean they are shamelessly plugging it. Maybe it just means the technology is good.
I second the comments about blogs, and importantly (and tied very much to blogs) XML-RPC. A new layer that is going to blast the shit out of all of what we have now. Almost everything is stagnating because what we see as the internet right now is either proprietary technologies which never expand, or the text web that is growing crustier every day.
We outgrew HTML years ago, and even though it's just fine for doling out what you need right now. XML-RPC makes networking so inherently easy that there is no longer any reason not to have a networked program where it could be networked.
The annoying thing is all the dumbasses on wallstreet (and yes, I own stocks, and I know what I'm talking about) dumping volumes of cash into the wrong technologies. Thankfully that means the cool new technologies are growing slowly and realize what they need to survive.
That way you won't just see XML-RPC one day and say "nifty, too bad it doesn't do X", you'll slowly see it migrate into everything you do, and it will already be capable of almost all the things you want.
Enough ranting, checkout http://scripting.com and http://www.xml-rpc.com for daily updates on it's sucess.
Sheesh, if they can't make money charging their current prices, stop expanding. Wait for a while. Hold it out. Wait till the money starts coming in, but please, I'm paying them something like 35 bucks/month, so are many of my neighbors. If they just sit on their ass for a while and stop expanding like the plauge, they won't keep digging themselves into debt.
You're forgetting that was 125 million when Be was in good economic standing, and this is 11 million when they're basically worthless and in debt. Gassee and company need to distribute most of that money to their shareholders now.
I, unlike most of you, happen to be a Master Certifiied Jedi Knight (MCJK). If I went into surgery, which is of course not likely do to my incredible pain tolerance and fighting abilities, one of these 'light sabres' wouldn't just cut me, it would make me dissappear.
Therefore I fully support all action that George takes against these people, but please George, don't get too full of yourself.
Dude macs are seriously easy to upgrade. You don't even need a screwdriver to upgrade powermac g4 or cube. For the powermac just pull on the handle at the side, you can even open it up when the computer is running (not sure why you'd want to though). Turn off the cube, flip it over, push a button and handle pops out, pull out the 'core' and you can upgrade everything. Plus you feel like you're handling a nuclear reactor which is fun.
Not sure about the imac but it's still easy, and my iBook only took a screwdriver to upgrade. The PowerBook is a bit tough..
Now compare this to my PCs.. I have to unplug everything on my aptiva and pull the cover off the back, I have to rip off the faceplate on my athlon and then unscrew a side panel. On our dell you have to unscrew a thingy and then push HARD on two tabs and slide it forward. All very complicated stuff.
Plus on macs you don't have to screw around with IRQs, most of the hardware just works.
Enough ranting, I just don't like it when people get things that wrong.
I just realized that made me sound like a dick. I really like evolution, it's an awesome program, and I thank Miguel for working on it. Along with his work on mono, whcih I would like to get involved with some day. I just have problems with red-carpet right now (not philosophical problems, just weirdness with trying to install software). Anyways, sorry.
Are you guys gonna start allowing directory listings again on spidermonkey? I'd personally much rather use APT to handle this stuff (right now at least) verses red-carpet which is still a tad buggy.
I always get the giggles when debian freezes, because we all pretend that we're going to run stable, then in a week we get tired of it and switch back to unstable. "I'm going to not have debconf get raped by a missing perl module and uninstall half my software" we say, but then we end up having it happen anyway... Anyways, It'll be nice to upgrade my server to the new stable *cough* *hack* (who am I kidding... I run testing on my server).
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"China has 35 people for every one of ours, so they could invade with nothing but chopsticks and probably win."
I'm assuming you're from the United States (since you talk about Europeans). If so that implies the US has less than 38 million people.
Got any references?
It's too bad SourceXChange is defunct. I spent a summer coding for them when I was 15. It seems like making a profit off of young coders doesn't work as well as just funding them.
Glad to see that "ethics" and "moral responsibility" are alive and well.
Dr. Neal Krawetz, your whining is laughable. First, Lance has no felonies. Second, I've never worked for Lance, at least I've never been paid. Although we have done research together in the past.
Perhaps next time you should slander under your own name? It must be upsetting to not have become as successful as one of your peers, but that's no reason to slander him.
The computers should have been auctioned or a lottery could have been set up to allow only a certain number to purchase them. The way it was setup was very irresponsible -- like throwing 150,000 dollars cash into the middle of a busy street!! (Really, if you guess a $200 market value on each of these that's ($200-$50)*$1000=$150,000 dollars into the street).
I've got a bittorrent file at: http://jr.merseine.nu:8080/2003/bt/ani_tr_4_720_dl .mov.torrent
fire away.
I was just thinking to myself yesterday how nice it would be if Blender went OSS. We've needed a nice open source 3D editor, and now I don't have to start a project to write one from scratch. Good deal.
This was also in wired about 5 years ago, you can find it here.
I think one of the greatest things about dvds is that the director can show you multiple ways to watch the same movie. Once you're done with a movie, if you really like it, you can listen to the director talk about how he made it. I did this for American Beauty.
Also more directors are able to put out the movie in wide screen, and I'm sure they love that. It's much more similar to the actual way we view things, and the film doesn't have to be "modified the film to fit your screen".
Anyways. Hooray for DVD.
I thought that someone had created a program that drove mindstorms robots to create mosaics of websites... Since the first graphical browser was called Mosiac. THAT would be cool. It'd take a while to display 'em though.
I have a full copy of Office for OS X 10.1. I'm running it right now. It's written using Carbon an Cocoa which are distinctly Macintosh libraries. Without reimplementing those systems, which is much of what Apple has been doing for the last... 10 years, there is no way office would run on Linux/Unix.
.NET implementations.
Right now porting Office in itself to Linux probably would be just as much of an undertaking as porting it to the Mac and Mac OS X was.
I think if we see Office every for Linux, it will most likely be running on wine or one of the free
I had the heatsink sorta fail. We think that the fan stalled, and that led the processor to heat up. It ended up killing my motherboard, but oddly not my precessor. I bought a new motherboard, and got a big heatsink along with some extra case fans, and now the system works fine.
I'm impressed that that heat could fry the mobo but NOT The processor, it's sort of weird actually. But there are a whole lot of things on most motherboards right next to the processor, and on mine they all looked slightly burned.
sort of how we all switched away from UPS and FedEx when people started sending mailbombs?
you're right. I feel like an idiot.
libgnomeprint11 is still broken, but it isn't attached to evolution anymore (maybe at one point something that evolution depends on depended on it).
Anyways, sorry for the harsh words, and on with the bugchecking.
I realize ximian "doesn't really have time" to guarantee compatability with Debian-unstable, but I know a lot of people who use unstable. If you use unstable, in general you're the kind of person who would report a bug when a program crashes.
For MONTHS there has been a dumb bug with libgnomeprint11 (their version) that makes it never install on any of my machines. Thanks guys, I hope you get those bugs checked soon, but not by me, even though I was willing.
That and they're trying to force everyone to use redcarpet when I really perfer apt, especially since redcarpet is buggy.
This isn't a flame, it's more like me crying because nothing ever makes any sense. I think Miguel & co are great folks, and I hope they do well.
I own stock in apple, lucent, beos, and palm. There are no real XML-RPC companies, userland developed XML-RPC and they are not publicly traded. Yes, apple is baking XML-RPC into it's OS, but you know what, MS is doing something similar with SOAP, and kde supports XML-RPC too.
Don't be so paranoid, just because someone loves a technology and owns stocks in companies that might possibly be related to it doesn't mean they are shamelessly plugging it. Maybe it just means the technology is good.
I second the comments about blogs, and importantly (and tied very much to blogs) XML-RPC. A new layer that is going to blast the shit out of all of what we have now. Almost everything is stagnating because what we see as the internet right now is either proprietary technologies which never expand, or the text web that is growing crustier every day.
We outgrew HTML years ago, and even though it's just fine for doling out what you need right now. XML-RPC makes networking so inherently easy that there is no longer any reason not to have a networked program where it could be networked.
The annoying thing is all the dumbasses on wallstreet (and yes, I own stocks, and I know what I'm talking about) dumping volumes of cash into the wrong technologies. Thankfully that means the cool new technologies are growing slowly and realize what they need to survive.
That way you won't just see XML-RPC one day and say "nifty, too bad it doesn't do X", you'll slowly see it migrate into everything you do, and it will already be capable of almost all the things you want.
Enough ranting, checkout http://scripting.com and http://www.xml-rpc.com for daily updates on it's sucess.
Sheesh, if they can't make money charging their current prices, stop expanding. Wait for a while. Hold it out. Wait till the money starts coming in, but please, I'm paying them something like 35 bucks/month, so are many of my neighbors. If they just sit on their ass for a while and stop expanding like the plauge, they won't keep digging themselves into debt.
You're forgetting that was 125 million when Be was in good economic standing, and this is 11 million when they're basically worthless and in debt. Gassee and company need to distribute most of that money to their shareholders now.
I, unlike most of you, happen to be a Master Certifiied Jedi Knight (MCJK). If I went into surgery, which is of course not likely do to my incredible pain tolerance and fighting abilities, one of these 'light sabres' wouldn't just cut me, it would make me dissappear.
Therefore I fully support all action that George takes against these people, but please George, don't get too full of yourself.
They said it was car-sized, never said it weight as much as a car.
Dude macs are seriously easy to upgrade. You don't even need a screwdriver to upgrade powermac g4 or cube. For the powermac just pull on the handle at the side, you can even open it up when the computer is running (not sure why you'd want to though). Turn off the cube, flip it over, push a button and handle pops out, pull out the 'core' and you can upgrade everything. Plus you feel like you're handling a nuclear reactor which is fun.
Not sure about the imac but it's still easy, and my iBook only took a screwdriver to upgrade. The PowerBook is a bit tough..
Now compare this to my PCs.. I have to unplug everything on my aptiva and pull the cover off the back, I have to rip off the faceplate on my athlon and then unscrew a side panel. On our dell you have to unscrew a thingy and then push HARD on two tabs and slide it forward. All very complicated stuff.
Plus on macs you don't have to screw around with IRQs, most of the hardware just works.
Enough ranting, I just don't like it when people get things that wrong.
I just realized that made me sound like a dick. I really like evolution, it's an awesome program, and I thank Miguel for working on it. Along with his work on mono, whcih I would like to get involved with some day. I just have problems with red-carpet right now (not philosophical problems, just weirdness with trying to install software). Anyways, sorry.
Are you guys gonna start allowing directory listings again on spidermonkey? I'd personally much rather use APT to handle this stuff (right now at least) verses red-carpet which is still a tad buggy.
I always get the giggles when debian freezes, because we all pretend that we're going to run stable, then in a week we get tired of it and switch back to unstable. "I'm going to not have debconf get raped by a missing perl module and uninstall half my software" we say, but then we end up having it happen anyway... Anyways, It'll be nice to upgrade my server to the new stable *cough* *hack* (who am I kidding... I run testing on my server).