Um, no. The Joe Wannabes would go home saying "What the hell is all that hacker crap? Give me a beer, I'm watching some football, bitch." I mean, no Joe Wannabe is going to know what ping is.
In conclusion, you are a Democrat. Oh, but you'll claim you voted for Nader, but we all know you're just pissed off. All you said in your whole comment was that our Republican friend was a moron because he didn't agree with you, an obvious liberal.
Oh, by the way, correcting spelling is a really sickening way to try to prove your point.
1. There will never be dual-proc P4 motherboards.
2. You know what a non-existent chip's (the Palomino core has not been released) performance will be.
I've not heard of this banker's rounding, but if it is the same as the rules of rounding associated with sig figs in the sciences, then it plays like this: If the digit is 5, and there are no other digits other than zeroes following, then you round to the even digit. Not to the odd digit, as you say. Someone recorrect me if I'm mistaken.
I downloaded the damn thing, and it appears to use Mozilla as its browser, or something based upon Mozilla.
The actual archive is a zip file, and this contains a few rpms, a README file for internal users, and a README file written by the idiot who got this file. He doesn't seem like he knows what he's doing (run lynx -source aolinstall.pl | perl:P)
It uses gtk+ as its toolkit, and comes with some extra fonts used in AOL.
I've yet to try out the software itself, but I'll post an update later.
irregardless adv : in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks; "he carried on irregardless of the difficulties" [syn: {regardless}, {irrespective}, {disregardless}, {no matter}, {disregarding}]
Damn new age words...:P
hehe, now THAT's funny
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gotta love it: Only 10 years later do we discover that Dork is actually a replicant.
Wrong answer. You're confusing free as in free beer and free as in freedom. For your first example, the ones that say you can't charge anything for distribution, that's missing a key freedom of unlimited distribution. I'm not sure about the crypto software -- perhaps a new category is necessary. Whatever happened to those crypto law modifications? Lastely, about the personal, non-commercial use - still limits of key freedoms of use. Nothing wrong with these restrictions (I feel the author should licence his software however he pleases), but they're not free as in freedom, so do not fit the bill of free software.
Therefore, these are not "ideological pissing contests." They're legitamate concerns with certain licences. Free software means free to everybody.
Erm, no. I strongly disagree. First of all, you are saying we should pick the easiest way of doing things, even though there are faster ways. Sure, it might be easier for someone new to a program to click on that friendly little disk in the toolbar to save, but I'm much happier with C-x C-s (emacs.) Keyboard shortcuts are harder to learn, but they decrease the amount of time spent on the interface of the program, and more on the creation of a document.
Besides, it's a moot point anyway. Why not just do both? Have the happy little disk, the menu bar, and perhaps some keyboard shortcuts, preferably user-definable. That would create an environment usable by both the beginner and the power user.
Why does it matter? That's what I have yet to understand. I know I didn't see this last time, so it's still news to me, and probably many others as well. You're not forced to look at this article again if you realized you've already seen it. And if your time is so important, why did you waste time posting this message?
I disagree. In this case, a trademark actually makes sense. These will be the only tennis balls that smell like grass, thus helping people remember the brand. This allows the "Come to your local WalMart and buy the only tennis ball that smells like freshly cut grass!" kind of advertising. The trademark has nothing to do with the function. You don't play better with the grass smell, etc.
On the other hand, I would be a bad thing if the trademark was on a smell on perfume, air freshener, or some cleaning product. You wouldn't want this because it would not allow cheap alternatives, and would create a monopoly. For example, what if Pine-Sol could have patented the pine smell for cleaners. If you wanted your house to smell like pine after you cleaned, you'd have to go with Pine-Sol. And that smell is something noticable, and something that you'd actually notice while the product was in use. To me, that's where the distinction needs to be made.
Percisely. I began programming in the DOS days with GW-BASIC myself, when I was about 6. After screwing around with that for a while, I moved on to MS QuickBasic. Then VisualBasic. I finally moved up to C when I realized most of my programs consisted of calling Windows C API functions directly from VB (this got to be difficult, as VB didn't let you get the return value, IIRC:P). Therefore, I think that you should start the kids on something simple, and as their wants and needs in a language increases, they'll want to find a new one.
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You're correct, all that food would be expensive. It'd be much cheaper to run monkeys simulators on a big beowolf cluster.
I can't believe I just said that.
Don't feel too bad -- I'm doing just that (w/o the beowolf cluster, just one computer's idle cpu time) to calculate how long it would take to randomly write out the works of shakespeare (hint: so far it has taken around 9 days just to get 9 letters.)
Ok, you seem to forget that MPAA does not hate Linux or Linux users. What the hell are you thinking? "Let's get those Linux hackers once and for all! Bwa ha ha!"
The thing is that those modems that you see today, well they aren't modems at all!
Right, they're not. So don't think of them as modems. As one guy said (sorry, forgot who), think of them as interfaces to the phone line, or something. You see, with the proper drivers, your winmodem could fully access the line, generating tones, voices, etc. So they'd be pretty useful as other things, in addition to modems, if only we had the specs.
The drivers do all the work - a lot of code that isn't easy to write. And its likely different for each of the hundreds of kinds of modems.
Once again, correct, the drivers would be difficult to write, but to clarify, the main driver would probably only have to be written once - that would be the signal processor thingy. And that's the hard part. After that, yes, it would be difficult to find out how to access the capabilities of each "modem," but I don't think you'd have to rewrite the signal processor each time.
And futhermore they suck, because they eat up processor time.
This I really won't buy. Sure, they use processor time, but these days they sure won't eat it up. We've had these things since the early Pentiums, perhaps even earlier. Seeing how fast computers are these days, I don't see how this claim can hold up. "Oh yeah, I was trying to browse the web, but my 600 mhz Athlon was too bogged down by my winmodem." Pfft.
Of course, I could be wrong about all of this, so feel free to prove so. Also, don't think that I'm saying we should all have WinModems. I'm just saying they wouldn't be as bad, if only some specs were released for the small amount of hardware in them.
Actually, no. VC++ encourages stupidity by having some non-standard features, but it is in fact a lot closer to the C++ standard than g++.
g++ is still using an obselete iostreams library, and namespaces don't really work, and there are a lot of problems with the STL implementation that comes with it (at least on my Mandrake 6.1 machine), probably because there are bugs in compiler dealing with templates.
Actually, this is not the fault of g++. This is the libstdc++ library you're talking about. They seem to be redoing the whole thing, so we'll see how that turns out. g++, however, has pretty good support for everything, including namespaces, which are just broken in most versions of libstdc++.
Can't do that in Debian -- it makes you enter the root password when runlevel 1 starts up. Kind of annoying if you screwed up your passwd file, I can tell you from experience.
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Come again? Yes there are black people who smoke crack and black people involved in hip hop culture. There are also white people who smoke crack and are involved in the hip hop culture. What's your point?
I'm not sure I understand why people think voice recognition would be so great, even if it was incredibly accurate. I know I wouldn't use it. Do you want to talk to your computer all day? It's great for the people that can't type, or if you need to do something moderatly quickly, but I don't really want to try coding with it.
"Left brace. Return. Indent. int foo equals 3 semicolon. No wait, I need a float. Arg! It's typing what I'm saying! Delete delete delete delete delete!"
Actually, I think the GPL only prohibits a proprietary program linking with yours, not your program linking with a closed library. So, if I'm correct, it would be perfectly fine to release front ends for the Real player.
Also, no one said anything about there being "official" KDE or GNOME front ends. I can write a GNOME program without giving it to the FSF, of course. As long as I don't break the GPL, I'm good to go.
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Um, no. The Joe Wannabes would go home saying "What the hell is all that hacker crap? Give me a beer, I'm watching some football, bitch." I mean, no Joe Wannabe is going to know what ping is.
Unless you claim that Gore's supporters are idiots, statistically the error should be proportionally equal for both sides. (Yikes, I can't spell.)
Please feel free to correct me without flame.
In conclusion, you are a Democrat. Oh, but you'll claim you voted for Nader, but we all know you're just pissed off. All you said in your whole comment was that our Republican friend was a moron because he didn't agree with you, an obvious liberal.
Oh, by the way, correcting spelling is a really sickening way to try to prove your point.
And those damn KDEians.. er.. Athenians... are going down! ;)
Oh, you're a troll! I thought you were just a moron. I'm sure you weren't trying to be funny.
So in conclusion, you're saying two things:
1. There will never be dual-proc P4 motherboards.
2. You know what a non-existent chip's (the Palomino core has not been released) performance will be.
Get back to me on that, if you could.
I'd say you're way off.
I've not heard of this banker's rounding, but if it is the same as the rules of rounding associated with sig figs in the sciences, then it plays like this: If the digit is 5, and there are no other digits other than zeroes following, then you round to the even digit. Not to the odd digit, as you say. Someone recorrect me if I'm mistaken.
I downloaded the damn thing, and it appears to use Mozilla as its browser, or something based upon Mozilla.
:P)
The actual archive is a zip file, and this contains a few rpms, a README file for internal users, and a README file written by the idiot who got this file. He doesn't seem like he knows what he's doing (run lynx -source aolinstall.pl | perl
It uses gtk+ as its toolkit, and comes with some extra fonts used in AOL.
I've yet to try out the software itself, but I'll post an update later.
I was amused, until I checked WordNet:
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irregardless
adv : in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks; "he
carried on irregardless of the difficulties" [syn: {regardless},
{irrespective}, {disregardless}, {no matter}, {disregarding}]
Damn new age words...
gotta love it: Only 10 years later do we discover that Dork is actually a replicant.
Gasp! You corrected the grammar nazi!
Wrong answer. You're confusing free as in free beer and free as in freedom. For your first example, the ones that say you can't charge anything for distribution, that's missing a key freedom of unlimited distribution. I'm not sure about the crypto software -- perhaps a new category is necessary. Whatever happened to those crypto law modifications? Lastely, about the personal, non-commercial use - still limits of key freedoms of use. Nothing wrong with these restrictions (I feel the author should licence his software however he pleases), but they're not free as in freedom, so do not fit the bill of free software.
Therefore, these are not "ideological pissing contests." They're legitamate concerns with certain licences. Free software means free to everybody.
Erm, no. I strongly disagree. First of all, you are saying we should pick the easiest way of doing things, even though there are faster ways. Sure, it might be easier for someone new to a program to click on that friendly little disk in the toolbar to save, but I'm much happier with C-x C-s (emacs.) Keyboard shortcuts are harder to learn, but they decrease the amount of time spent on the interface of the program, and more on the creation of a document.
Besides, it's a moot point anyway. Why not just do both? Have the happy little disk, the menu bar, and perhaps some keyboard shortcuts, preferably user-definable. That would create an environment usable by both the beginner and the power user.
Why does it matter? That's what I have yet to understand. I know I didn't see this last time, so it's still news to me, and probably many others as well. You're not forced to look at this article again if you realized you've already seen it. And if your time is so important, why did you waste time posting this message?
I'll never understand it, I suppose.
I disagree. In this case, a trademark actually makes sense. These will be the only tennis balls that smell like grass, thus helping people remember the brand. This allows the "Come to your local WalMart and buy the only tennis ball that smells like freshly cut grass!" kind of advertising. The trademark has nothing to do with the function. You don't play better with the grass smell, etc.
On the other hand, I would be a bad thing if the trademark was on a smell on perfume, air freshener, or some cleaning product. You wouldn't want this because it would not allow cheap alternatives, and would create a monopoly. For example, what if Pine-Sol could have patented the pine smell for cleaners. If you wanted your house to smell like pine after you cleaned, you'd have to go with Pine-Sol. And that smell is something noticable, and something that you'd actually notice while the product was in use. To me, that's where the distinction needs to be made.
Percisely. I began programming in the DOS days with GW-BASIC myself, when I was about 6. After screwing around with that for a while, I moved on to MS QuickBasic. Then VisualBasic. I finally moved up to C when I realized most of my programs consisted of calling Windows C API functions directly from VB (this got to be difficult, as VB didn't let you get the return value, IIRC :P). Therefore, I think that you should start the kids on something simple, and as their wants and needs in a language increases, they'll want to find a new one.
You're correct, all that food would be expensive. It'd be much cheaper to run monkeys simulators on a big beowolf cluster.
I can't believe I just said that.
Don't feel too bad -- I'm doing just that (w/o the beowolf cluster, just one computer's idle cpu time) to calculate how long it would take to randomly write out the works of shakespeare (hint: so far it has taken around 9 days just to get 9 letters.)
Ok, you seem to forget that MPAA does not hate Linux or Linux users. What the hell are you thinking? "Let's get those Linux hackers once and for all! Bwa ha ha!"
Perhaps you're just paranoid...
The thing is that those modems that you see today, well they aren't modems at all!
Right, they're not. So don't think of them as modems. As one guy said (sorry, forgot who), think of them as interfaces to the phone line, or something. You see, with the proper drivers, your winmodem could fully access the line, generating tones, voices, etc. So they'd be pretty useful as other things, in addition to modems, if only we had the specs.
The drivers do all the work - a lot of code that isn't easy to write. And its likely different for each of the hundreds of kinds of modems.
Once again, correct, the drivers would be difficult to write, but to clarify, the main driver would probably only have to be written once - that would be the signal processor thingy. And that's the hard part. After that, yes, it would be difficult to find out how to access the capabilities of each "modem," but I don't think you'd have to rewrite the signal processor each time.
And futhermore they suck, because they eat up processor time.
This I really won't buy. Sure, they use processor time, but these days they sure won't eat it up. We've had these things since the early Pentiums, perhaps even earlier. Seeing how fast computers are these days, I don't see how this claim can hold up. "Oh yeah, I was trying to browse the web, but my 600 mhz Athlon was too bogged down by my winmodem." Pfft.
Of course, I could be wrong about all of this, so feel free to prove so. Also, don't think that I'm saying we should all have WinModems. I'm just saying they wouldn't be as bad, if only some specs were released for the small amount of hardware in them.
Actually, no. VC++ encourages stupidity by having some non-standard features, but it is in fact a lot closer to the C++ standard than g++.
g++ is still using an obselete iostreams library, and namespaces don't really work, and there are a lot of problems with the STL implementation that comes with it (at least on my Mandrake 6.1 machine), probably because there are bugs in compiler dealing with templates.
Actually, this is not the fault of g++. This is the libstdc++ library you're talking about. They seem to be redoing the whole thing, so we'll see how that turns out. g++, however, has pretty good support for everything, including namespaces, which are just broken in most versions of libstdc++.
Can't do that in Debian -- it makes you enter the root password when runlevel 1 starts up. Kind of annoying if you screwed up your passwd file, I can tell you from experience.
Come again? Yes there are black people who smoke crack and black people involved in hip hop culture. There are also white people who smoke crack and are involved in the hip hop culture. What's your point?
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*beats head repeatidly against wall until he passes out*
I'm not sure I understand why people think voice recognition would be so great, even if it was incredibly accurate. I know I wouldn't use it. Do you want to talk to your computer all day? It's great for the people that can't type, or if you need to do something moderatly quickly, but I don't really want to try coding with it.
"Left brace. Return. Indent. int foo equals 3 semicolon. No wait, I need a float. Arg! It's typing what I'm saying! Delete delete delete delete delete!"
And so on.
I don't do sigs.
Actually, I think the GPL only prohibits a proprietary program linking with yours, not your program linking with a closed library. So, if I'm correct, it would be perfectly fine to release front ends for the Real player.
Also, no one said anything about there being "official" KDE or GNOME front ends. I can write a GNOME program without giving it to the FSF, of course. As long as I don't break the GPL, I'm good to go.
I don't do sigs.