Nope. Doesn't and should've are words. Ain't and I'd are not. Look in a dictonary some time- there are a select few contractions that a perfectly valid english words, although they are discouraged from fromal writings. All other contractions, contrary to popular impressions, are not words. Also, note that a few, ex. should've actually sould exactly the same as the non-contracted versions.
For statistical purposes, most medical studies are done in groups of about 20 or so- and there can be any number of these groups. The total might not be over 100, but if they don't say how many groups we are left in the dark on that....
Uhm, you choice the window manager, which has no effect on apps. Whichever window manager you choice you can use any app, as they just call the library they need. Win32 on the other hand doens't give the choice of a window manager, you use the one given to you.
When standards don't exist, nobody complies with them.
I whole heartly agree. I think the problem for open source is the are not enough standards for what it does- untill now there was no standard for desktops, except for what users stated. The billion free mail clients all can use smtp, all browsers can view html, but besides that there aren't the kind of standards that would make open source shine.
You are of course assuming that you could applie your parent's argument back on himself, but when he is arguing for something you should not use the whole arguemt to disprove it- its like saying he can't be a murderer because otherwise he would have killed himself. Furthermore, he was impling that people should stop righting ARTICLES, and said nothing about comments. So all three of us are in the safe, but the ranters are not.
I'm fully aware that this does not actually represent the economics of bundled OSs, but this is definitely the perception to the end user. Besides, if it is impossible to buy a laptop without a copy of Windows, we might as well count it as a hardware expense anyway.
I buried that secret deep within the middle of my post. Guess you didn't find it.</i>
And that means what to us? you deliberately baited people? or you just wanted to insult our intelligence?
IANAEE, but VLIW has been around for a while, and if it were at all possible to code for it they would have done so by now. That said, IBM was working on a Jre/Jit for VLIW, planning for a Java based system, but apparently that didn't pan out. and if i remember correctly, that project is what transmeta baed their entire idea on.
how does one go about downloading gentoo? i'm ibntersted in it, but all i can find on the website are links for the prerelease, and the iso images. no real help for a newbie(who doesn't have a cd-rom).
I'm going to have to agree with you- i've just started working with java, and applets suck, and so does javascript. unfortunatly, sun has nothing to do with javascript, it was netscape's invention. i've been hopeing for a while that AOL would drop the name, so that a real java variant could be called JavaScript.
But anywho, java apps are auesome. they're getting too much drag from all the hype tho. maybe this will be just the thing to get people to concentrated on what java is really good at? i can only hope...
Actually, on my win98 laptop, if i remember correctly, just inserting a cd started a cd player, and there was a loopback function, so you could record the mucsic as it was going from the cdrom to the speakers- which means the errors would already be remove. i haven't studied cdroms on modern computers, but it would be easy enof to do something like that, and not even give a crap about diffent software/hardware. or use a ripper that corrects errors!
How the heck can you have a 1/2 scale map of europe? 1/2 scale means the map is 1/2 the size of the real thing. that's a litle big!
and what's this aplha stage? either that's some cobination of app and lha (some sort of half arcived program??), or the pre alpha stage that i seem to be in with my program. ah...i have to go, the 'beta' testers are getting close...
Barter! why didn't i think of that! on the internet, there are no dollars are cents, just infromation and cpu cycles. we could set up an extange system- i'll let you have this content for X cycles now, or you can use a special player that gives you the content while using extra cycles for its own purposes... what an idea!
um, it IS easily available from http://www.blackdon.org which you would know if you had actually bothered to read any of the articles on java for linux.
on the topic of clustering, i was noticing that noone seams to be making programs that run on differnt platforms at the same time and share processes. is this just imposible, or does no one care? or do i have to become a master admin before i can even think about something like this?
-strfn
Depends on your definition of "engine". it maybe be custimary to just have an engine for rendering, but my personal definaition of an engine is any app that does one specific part of a larger program.
Sort of like a subroutine in source, except my engine is always running and is crutial to the overall program.
So back to the original point, "the quake engine" was made open, so many FPS(and some others) could take advantage of it, but well, a golf simulator, physics and the bsic rules of golf never change. why wouldn't you put in the engine? so all that would be left would be the interface, and the charactors, and the setting and, oh wait, same as with the quake engine.
Same thing with a card game. You have an engine for a deck of cards, which lets you draw, discard, whatever. i could make a poker game based on that engine, someone could make a competing game, or make solitare.
Hmmm, i don't know how good of a price that one is, Computers4SURE don't seam to have any good prices, even in their clearence section.
Ironicly, the laptop you linked to is identical to my laptop, except brand and processor. oh, and i droped it once, but that is almost a given with a 2 year old computer.;-)
By switching the molecules used in the ionic liquids, chemists will be able to design
custom properties in their solvents. Dr. Seddon estimates one trillion possible
combinations. "You've got this incredible flexibility for getting the system right," he
said. Ionic liquids can be mixed together to tweak their properties further.
Dr. James Davis, a professor of chemistry at the University of South Alabama, gives the example of designing an ionic liquid that is able to bind with heavy metal pollutants like mercury and cadmium. Shaking contaminated water with the ionic liquid will enable the ionic liquid molecules to pull the heavy metals out of the water. The ionic liquid and water will then separate, and the clean water can be poured off.
WOW! why didn't i heard of this earlier? think of all the applications: water filtration, metal collection, and it's all non-toxic and recyclable! if this really works, i'm going to have to add ionic solvents to my list to study...
-stfrn, mad scientist
this sin't exactly what you are talking about, but just the word cable maid me think of using a normal tv cable, and using a tv instead of a monitor. granted this would take a tv out on the computer, and you would't have a real termainl, but who does anyway? just a suggestion.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope. Doesn't and should've are words. Ain't and I'd are not. Look in a dictonary some time- there are a select few contractions that a perfectly valid english words, although they are discouraged from fromal writings. All other contractions, contrary to popular impressions, are not words. Also, note that a few, ex. should've actually sould exactly the same as the non-contracted versions.
For statistical purposes, most medical studies are done in groups of about 20 or so- and there can be any number of these groups. The total might not be over 100, but if they don't say how many groups we are left in the dark on that....
Uhm, you choice the window manager, which has no effect on apps. Whichever window manager you choice you can use any app, as they just call the library they need. Win32 on the other hand doens't give the choice of a window manager, you use the one given to you.
When standards don't exist, nobody complies with them.
I whole heartly agree. I think the problem for open source is the are not enough standards for what it does- untill now there was no standard for desktops, except for what users stated. The billion free mail clients all can use smtp, all browsers can view html, but besides that there aren't the kind of standards that would make open source shine.
You are of course assuming that you could applie your parent's argument back on himself, but when he is arguing for something you should not use the whole arguemt to disprove it- its like saying he can't be a murderer because otherwise he would have killed himself.
Furthermore, he was impling that people should stop righting ARTICLES, and said nothing about comments. So all three of us are in the safe, but the ranters are not.
I'm fully aware that this does not actually represent the economics of bundled OSs, but this is definitely the perception to the end user. Besides, if it is impossible to buy a laptop without a copy of Windows, we might as well count it as a hardware expense anyway.
I buried that secret deep within the middle of my post. Guess you didn't find it.</i>
And that means what to us? you deliberately baited people? or you just wanted to insult our intelligence?
it should be from never-say-never!
IANAEE, but VLIW has been around for a while, and if it were at all possible to code for it they would have done so by now. That said, IBM was working on a Jre/Jit for VLIW, planning for a Java based system, but apparently that didn't pan out. and if i remember correctly, that project is what transmeta baed their entire idea on.
Holy modding batman! he's right, check for yourself, one mod, for troll and its still at 2. maybe some automatic thing?
how does one go about downloading gentoo? i'm ibntersted in it, but all i can find on the website are links for the prerelease, and the iso images. no real help for a newbie(who doesn't have a cd-rom).
I'm going to have to agree with you- i've just started working with java, and applets suck, and so does javascript. unfortunatly, sun has nothing to do with javascript, it was netscape's invention. i've been hopeing for a while that AOL would drop the name, so that a real java variant could be called JavaScript.
But anywho, java apps are auesome. they're getting too much drag from all the hype tho. maybe this will be just the thing to get people to concentrated on what java is really good at? i can only hope...
Actually, on my win98 laptop, if i remember correctly, just inserting a cd started a cd player, and there was a loopback function, so you could record the mucsic as it was going from the cdrom to the speakers- which means the errors would already be remove. i haven't studied cdroms on modern computers, but it would be easy enof to do something like that, and not even give a crap about diffent software/hardware. or use a ripper that corrects errors!
How the heck can you have a 1/2 scale map of europe? 1/2 scale means the map is 1/2 the size of the real thing. that's a litle big!
and what's this aplha stage? either that's some cobination of app and lha (some sort of half arcived program??), or the pre alpha stage that i seem to be in with my program. ah...i have to go, the 'beta' testers are getting close...
Barter! why didn't i think of that! on the internet, there are no dollars are cents, just infromation and cpu cycles. we could set up an extange system- i'll let you have this content for X cycles now, or you can use a special player that gives you the content while using extra cycles for its own purposes... what an idea!
um, it IS easily available from http://www.blackdon.org which you would know if you had actually bothered to read any of the articles on java for linux.
actually, acording to the FAQ on their website:
Most JAVA VMs use shared memory, and thus can not migrate. Try using a "green threads" VM.
but i don't know what a "green threads VM" is. in theroy java apps would be great for clustering, no?
on the topic of clustering, i was noticing that noone seams to be making programs that run on differnt platforms at the same time and share processes. is this just imposible, or does no one care? or do i have to become a master admin before i can even think about something like this?
-strfn
Depends on your definition of "engine". it maybe be custimary to just have an engine for rendering, but my personal definaition of an engine is any app that does one specific part of a larger program.
Sort of like a subroutine in source, except my engine is always running and is crutial to the overall program.
So back to the original point, "the quake engine" was made open, so many FPS(and some others) could take advantage of it, but well, a golf simulator, physics and the bsic rules of golf never change. why wouldn't you put in the engine? so all that would be left would be the interface, and the charactors, and the setting and, oh wait, same as with the quake engine.
Same thing with a card game. You have an engine for a deck of cards, which lets you draw, discard, whatever. i could make a poker game based on that engine, someone could make a competing game, or make solitare.
That is open source games to me.
-stfrn
Hmmm, i don't know how good of a price that one is, Computers4SURE don't seam to have any good prices, even in their clearence section.
;-)
Ironicly, the laptop you linked to is identical to my laptop, except brand and processor. oh, and i droped it once, but that is almost a given with a 2 year old computer.
-stfrn
By switching the molecules used in the ionic liquids, chemists will be able to design custom properties in their solvents. Dr. Seddon estimates one trillion possible combinations. "You've got this incredible flexibility for getting the system right," he said. Ionic liquids can be mixed together to tweak their properties further.
Dr. James Davis, a professor of chemistry at the University of South Alabama, gives the example of designing an ionic liquid that is able to bind with heavy metal pollutants like mercury and cadmium.
Shaking contaminated water with the ionic liquid will enable the ionic liquid molecules to pull the heavy metals out of the water. The ionic liquid and water will then separate, and the clean water can be poured off.
WOW! why didn't i heard of this earlier? think of all the applications: water filtration, metal collection, and it's all non-toxic and recyclable! if this really works, i'm going to have to add ionic solvents to my list to study...
-stfrn, mad scientist
Give me some time, and this essay would be shorter and have more content. :-)
to quote my LUG pres. quoting pascal:
"If I had had more time I would have written a shorter letter." - Pascal
simple: i bought my laptop two years ago for $1000. Guess how much its worth right now? ;-)
theres a second part of the previous article, http://www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon2.htm, but the website itself is quite intersting...
this sin't exactly what you are talking about, but just the word cable maid me think of using a normal tv cable, and using a tv instead of a monitor. granted this would take a tv out on the computer, and you would't have a real termainl, but who does anyway? just a suggestion.
heh, i know why it's been moded up so much, to bait people into trying it. /.'ers are going to lose karma.
wow, alot of guilable