...that people are spending their time doing meaningful things like trying to make demos of incredibly fast trips through a four-year-old game. I'm personally waiting to see if they can make the 8-minute DOOM, or, dare I hold my breath, the 6-minute Wolfenstein?
I like some of the functionality and abilities that X has, but coding for it is a bloody nightmare. The toolkits help quite a bit, but its still pretty messy to do any hand-coding. Nobody mentioned the fact that one of the good things--the ability to run the manager separately from the server, also bites you in the butt on a single-user machine. Rather than having the enviornment spawn the window directly, you've got two steps: the server requesting a window spawn and the WM providing the window. The two are racing with each other. Ironically, this bites Linux folks hardest...
They make it sound like this never happens anywhere else. We used to cruise through the HVAC access tunnels up at Chico St. looking for the legendary tunnel that would take us to the library. My dad used to tell stories about trying to find old mine entrances out at UCB.
Its important to note that this was an informal and nonscientific study--33 people doth not make a sample population. I would classify it as "interesting", yet far from "pretty amazing stats". Twenty percent of a thousand participants comprising a genuine cross section, maybe (if you beleieve that the majority of gamers are 25+ as was the population of this study, you are Sorely Mistaken).
1) Advertising that's sexist and juvenile? 2) Posting about an article covering #1 in/. which is also sexist and juvenile?
I found it kinda ironic that this article came out the same day I saw the beanie category for "Best non-gui interface" with the description "A real man can survive quickly and efficiently using nothing but a VT100 terminal." I suppose a real woman would flounder on anything more butch than an IMac?
I work for a major legislative tracking firm: "bad faith" usually refers to doing something with intent to screw another: I don't really want bignametrademark.com, I only want it to force bignametrademarc Inc to have to pay me gobs of money for their righteous trademark. This is really an adjunct to the current trademark law and sort of frivelous, but it would serve to more clearly prevent the sort of domain name squatting abuses we've seen before, though _not_ ones like snaking myfamilyname.com. You've got no legal entitlement there.
As for non-Americans--it would only apply if you were squatting on an address and doing the regestration in the US. If you were to do an offshore non-com/org/net TLD, you'd be Kool and the Gang. This isn't just for this particular law--you are bound to conform with laws in the place you do business in either direction, one of the perils of international business.
Not that this is a legal interpretation--anyone looking for such here should look to get their head checked.
In the late 70s and early 80s, it was said that the next big Age would be the one we're currently living in: The Information Age, where data became the coin of the realm and everone scurries about attempting to make it more interoperable and universally usable. Much of the cyberpunk literature delved into the later throes of the Age and plumbed its potential depths. It is said that the coming Age is likely the Age of Genetics where DNA itself is pulled apart and hacked to our liking--think "Gattaca" and Dolly here.
Is this indeed the coming Age and where do you see it going? And if not, where are we headed after data and electronics are as much a part of culture as the machines of the Industrial Age are now?
I just wish that all the keys that have become commonplace in the digital age would always be in the same place. Nothing slows me down more than continuously hitting the damned caps lock key instead of the control key, and searching for either "|" or "~" (bein' a perl coder, thems useful)
I still am blown away by the fact that so many people still equate Open Source with being only a Linux thing. The relative lack of Open Source in the Windows community tends to be a self limiting problem: with no Open Source, it is kinda pricey to develop stuff and if its pricey to develop stuff, it is relatively reasonable to expect to be renumerated for one's expenses.
Fortunately, as DJGPP, Cygwin and other similar tools are being created, it is opening up these doors a bit wider.
Reality being what it is, the Win* world still blows the Linux world away hands down in terms of users. I, for one, would be way happy to be coding for the largest possible audience, especially if I could make everyone happy without going through herculean efforts to do so.
Perpetuating the idea that Linux is free while Windows products cost (especially when the Linux development is the same) is poor, doubly so when we're talking about a library which would only help foster code development.
Tom's days as the paragon of help and assistance in the Perl community are pretty well over. Back when he was The Guy, perhaps he had a leg to stand on, but I think that he certainly believes he is The Man and The Shit, tho his legend no longer lives up to reality.
Schwartz shoulda gotten it, man. He's out there _still_ working it. Or maybe Salzburg. Somebody who after you interact with them you don't feel like you've been crapped on.
As far as I'm concerned, there's two major flaws. The first being the client/server organization and its impact on standalonish workstations. Essentially, the problem breaks down such that when you move a window the client has to tell the server what's going on and the server then has to tell the client what happened. On one machine both processes fight for the same resources, slowing down operations.
The other problem is with the API. Sure, there are toolkits, but they while they are somewhat easier to use, they really do end up screwing up the look and feel: there isn't a consistent look or layout to any of them. You can smell Motif when that funny head pops up, for example. This makes life difficult both for developers who are honestly trying to keep things consistent and users who have to figure out what the hell the pyramid with the eye means.
X has a lot of good features, and its why we still use it today. When you need the client/server, it's really really nice. The fact that you can swap the window managers is nice (viva choice)! We could still do lots, lots better though. Perhaps something where O'Reiley doesn't have to sell so many books...
I'm still waiting for the day that some Big Company decides to entice some small nation to become the Gibsonian (William, natch) vision of the data haven--an electronic switzerland. All you'd need is a fast connection, a pliable government and a few hundred armed gaurds to stave off "interested parties". Gibson picked Costa Rica--perhaps he should have picked the Ivory Coast?
At what point did ActiveState become synonymous with "Win32 perl"? Back in the day, it was a pain in the ass to compile perl on non-UNIX boxes and it was far better to let someone else do your dirty work when all you wanted to do was code. The implimentations were funky in places and it was difficult to keep what worked where straight--I used to have two different variations running to do the job.
Mercifully much of that has changed. The perl community has pushed out a mess of Win 32 support both in the core and in the libraries to make the code more Windows-friendly. You can compile it with Mingw32, Borland C++ or Visual C++ without too much difficulty, thanks in some part to the contributions of ActiveState, some of which were rolled into the 5.005 distribution.
As for a "Microsoft Perl", the fact that they put out C++ hasn't killed the compiler market, has it?
...work about as well as any of the other protection schemes. OSS? Fughetaboutit--the 33L33T \/\//\R3Z D()()D2 would rule the day. Astalavista, anyone?
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...that people are spending their time doing meaningful things like trying to make demos of incredibly fast trips through a four-year-old game. I'm personally waiting to see if they can make the 8-minute DOOM, or, dare I hold my breath, the 6-minute Wolfenstein?
I like some of the functionality and abilities that X has, but coding for it is a bloody nightmare. The toolkits help quite a bit, but its still pretty messy to do any hand-coding. Nobody mentioned the fact that one of the good things--the ability to run the manager separately from the server, also bites you in the butt on a single-user machine. Rather than having the enviornment spawn the window directly, you've got two steps: the server requesting a window spawn and the WM providing the window. The two are racing with each other. Ironically, this bites Linux folks hardest...
They make it sound like this never happens anywhere else. We used to cruise through the HVAC access tunnels up at Chico St. looking for the legendary tunnel that would take us to the library. My dad used to tell stories about trying to find old mine entrances out at UCB.
Its important to note that this was an informal and nonscientific study--33 people doth not make a sample population. I would classify it as "interesting", yet far from "pretty amazing stats". Twenty percent of a thousand participants comprising a genuine cross section, maybe (if you beleieve that the majority of gamers are 25+ as was the population of this study, you are Sorely Mistaken).
Hey! You vote:
/. which is also sexist and juvenile?
1) Advertising that's sexist and juvenile?
2) Posting about an article covering #1 in
I found it kinda ironic that this article came out the same day I saw the beanie category for "Best non-gui interface" with the description "A real man can survive quickly and efficiently using nothing but a VT100 terminal." I suppose a real woman would flounder on anything more butch than an IMac?
At least two of these were featured on the most excellent Cruel site of the day. In the sparkler bomb's case, like a year ago...
At the least they'll have problems with the patent. I think somebody else has proven prior art...
until you get that teeny little scratch on the plastic...
I work for a major legislative tracking firm: "bad faith" usually refers to doing something with intent to screw another: I don't really want bignametrademark.com, I only want it to force bignametrademarc Inc to have to pay me gobs of money for their righteous trademark. This is really an adjunct to the current trademark law and sort of frivelous, but it would serve to more clearly prevent the sort of domain name squatting abuses we've seen before, though _not_ ones like snaking myfamilyname.com. You've got no legal entitlement there.
As for non-Americans--it would only apply if you were squatting on an address and doing the regestration in the US. If you were to do an offshore non-com/org/net TLD, you'd be Kool and the Gang. This isn't just for this particular law--you are bound to conform with laws in the place you do business in either direction, one of the perils of international business.
Not that this is a legal interpretation--anyone looking for such here should look to get their head checked.
Obviously the job you want is to be IT Manager at PC Week...hold the salt.
In the late 70s and early 80s, it was said that the next big Age would be the one we're currently living in: The Information Age, where data became the coin of the realm and everone scurries about attempting to make it more interoperable and universally usable. Much of the cyberpunk literature delved into the later throes of the Age and plumbed its potential depths. It is said that the coming Age is likely the Age of Genetics where DNA itself is pulled apart and hacked to our liking--think "Gattaca" and Dolly here.
Is this indeed the coming Age and where do you see it going? And if not, where are we headed after data and electronics are as much a part of culture as the machines of the Industrial Age are now?
I just wish that all the keys that have become commonplace in the digital age would always be in the same place. Nothing slows me down more than continuously hitting the damned caps lock key instead of the control key, and searching for either "|" or "~" (bein' a perl coder, thems useful)
Fortunately, as DJGPP, Cygwin and other similar tools are being created, it is opening up these doors a bit wider.
Reality being what it is, the Win* world still blows the Linux world away hands down in terms of users. I, for one, would be way happy to be coding for the largest possible audience, especially if I could make everyone happy without going through herculean efforts to do so.
Perpetuating the idea that Linux is free while Windows products cost (especially when the Linux development is the same) is poor, doubly so when we're talking about a library which would only help foster code development.
Tom's days as the paragon of help and assistance in the Perl community are pretty well over. Back when he was The Guy, perhaps he had a leg to stand on, but I think that he certainly believes he is The Man and The Shit, tho his legend no longer lives up to reality.
Schwartz shoulda gotten it, man. He's out there _still_ working it. Or maybe Salzburg. Somebody who after you interact with them you don't feel like you've been crapped on.
As far as I'm concerned, there's two major flaws. The first being the client/server organization and its impact on standalonish workstations. Essentially, the problem breaks down such that when you move a window the client has to tell the server what's going on and the server then has to tell the client what happened. On one machine both processes fight for the same resources, slowing down operations.
The other problem is with the API. Sure, there are toolkits, but they while they are somewhat easier to use, they really do end up screwing up the look and feel: there isn't a consistent look or layout to any of them. You can smell Motif when that funny head pops up, for example. This makes life difficult both for developers who are honestly trying to keep things consistent and users who have to figure out what the hell the pyramid with the eye means.
X has a lot of good features, and its why we still use it today. When you need the client/server, it's really really nice. The fact that you can swap the window managers is nice (viva choice)! We could still do lots, lots better though. Perhaps something where O'Reiley doesn't have to sell so many books...
I'm still waiting for the day that some Big Company decides to entice some small nation to become the Gibsonian (William, natch) vision of the data haven--an electronic switzerland. All you'd need is a fast connection, a pliable government and a few hundred armed gaurds to stave off "interested parties". Gibson picked Costa Rica--perhaps he should have picked the Ivory Coast?
Mercifully much of that has changed. The perl community has pushed out a mess of Win 32 support both in the core and in the libraries to make the code more Windows-friendly. You can compile it with Mingw32, Borland C++ or Visual C++ without too much difficulty, thanks in some part to the contributions of ActiveState, some of which were rolled into the 5.005 distribution.
As for a "Microsoft Perl", the fact that they put out C++ hasn't killed the compiler market, has it?
...work about as well as any of the other protection schemes. OSS? Fughetaboutit--the 33L33T \/\//\R3Z D()()D2 would rule the day. Astalavista, anyone?