I have concerns with Red Flag Linux and the locally-developed Dragon CPU chip; the Chinese government might have access to back doors via software and/or hardware that could make tracking of Internet surfers even easier than many people think.
On the hardware you may have a point; the Dragon CPU might well have a serial number a la Pentium III or some other such feature. But for the software, if the Chinese government wanted to put backdoors into Red Flag, I doubt they'd have gone with GPL software like Linux. They'd probably have forked FreeBSD and closed the source. Since they didn't, it's probably safe not to be too paranoid about Red Flag Linux.
Remember, not even oppressive totalitarian communist regimes spend 100% of their time working evil.;)
eclipse has some really cool stuff in it (refactoring!), but let's be serious... if all that work was put into netbeans/forte, it would be one hell of an IDE.
Linux has some really cool stuff in it, but let's be serious... if all that work was put into GNU/Hurd, it would be one hell of a kernel.
Chevy never sold a single car in Spain, as they were not exported to Europe -for the most part-, this was a Mexican market fiasco. They did have to change the Nova name for the mexican market.
However, the Nova name was used in the UK for a Vauxhall car. In mainland Europe, the same car was sold under the Opel marque as the Corsa. I'm not sure whether that's because of the Spanish problem or not though.
Amongst other proposals he suggested that a good way to reduce the cost of high energy physics research would be to do it in space where there is a lot of vaccum. He did not really take in my points that we can create vaccum on earth pretty easily, the residual gas in an accelerator are not a major problem (they cause few collisions), and the cost of putting a machine 20 miles across into space are greater than the planetary GDP.
Great. So you know more physics than him - bully for you. So, like, what does that little anecdote have to do with the GPL? I don't recall anyone claiming that RMS's views on physics are particularly knowledgable, interesting, or even important.
At least once a day, Slashdot screws up and I have to reload the page a few times to get it to display properly.
That's a problem with Slashdot, not Firebird. The pages Slashdot generates are not valid HTML. They work for the most part, but it'd be nice if someone got round to fixing that one day...
> The fact of the matter is you cannot use another company's trademarks to sell your product without their permission.
Yeah? Then how did Burger King get away with their "most people prefer Whoppers to Big Macs(r)" campaign? Do you think they got McDonalds' permission to say their burgers tasted nasty?
Umm, nope. The fact of the matter is that since they were using the "Big Mac" trademark to refer to the results of market research, they were stating a fact about the McDonald's product. Which is fine, even for a trademark.
Therefore, since it is a fact that Pixar made Finding Nemo, they could therefore use that name in their advertising. Since they would be stating a fact about Disney's product, there'd not be a thing Disney could do.
I don't see a problem with that. When I need to register something, I create a temporary email address; as soon as its purpose is served, I delete it. It's cleaner than trying to work with a throwaway Hotmail account, and I don't have to worry about proving my identity to Microsoft.
It's a weird situation, do they really want to be THAT effective to really stop viruses, or will they be like Chinese on piracy and put up a show.
The Chinese have always been very tough on piracy. In fact, back in the sixteenth century there was such a problem with Japanese pirates in particular that it was illegal for a Japanese to set foot in China on pain of death. Even the RIAA hasn't started advocating the death penalty yet, despite several ships carrying CDs having been boarded, their cargo stolen and their crews murdered....oh, you meant copyright infringement?
NVIDIA is a 3D hardware company - they make their money by selling cards to run the latest whizz-bang games.
The part of the Linux market that is growing fast is servers and, to a lesser extent, corporate desktops. This is not the part of the market that is interested in consumer 3D graphics.
NVIDIA could easily give up on Linux. The Linux gamer market is tiny, and it's not growing very fast. NVIDIA's shareholders would not give a damn.
I know what you're trying to say, but seriously, however tired I am - however stressed I am - even if I'm so out of it that I try to make myself a coffee and forget to boil the water first - I have NEVER for a moment failed to recognise a virus email the moment I saw it.
Oh, sure, companies should provide one one-day training course on virus recognition, to protect the truly ignorant.
But after that, anyone who still falls for them should be fired, because they shouldn't be in a job which involves reading emails. You wouldn't give an alcoholic a job driving ambulances, would you?
In this situation on the previous versions of NT, people would hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and then hit the Task Manager button so that they can kill their app. NT5.1 has removed an unnecessary step!
Yeah... except that the Win2k version at least gives you a privileged "Shut down" button which provides some way to escape from a program that's taking 100% CPU time.
What I don't understand is why starting the task manager in an emergency doesn't give the task manager any priority. Sure, it's "High" by default, but that doesn't make it load in less than five minutes when anything "Normal" or above is hogging cycles. They have this lovely screen you get to by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del that appears in an instant and suspends all other applications... and then when you click "Task manager", in order to close the flipping app that's basically hanging your computer, it goes back into Windows and carries on churning away!
Microsoft Visual Studio kicks the shit out of autoconf
Apples and oranges. The whole PURPOSE of autoconf is to compile code on multiple disparate platforms. If you're only writing for one platform, you'd be an idiot to use autoconf. And if you're using Visual Studio, you're only writing for one platform - by definition.
It's much easier to type ALT-ENTER to bring up my kbstart prompt and type "PS". The alternative would be to do Start: Programs: Adobe Photoshop 6.
Or just press the Windows key and type PA. Of course, you need to make sure you don't have any duplicate accelerators, but that's what & is for.
Or use the Address toolbar in your taskbar, and create suitably named shortcuts to call from it. (Click "address", type "ps", this opens the shortcut called "ps" that you have presumably placed somewhere in your path).
Why bother installing new tools when the standard interface already has equivalent functionality?
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In other words, you are paid less for doing as good or better a job than one of your European or American counterparts.
Who is better off? The man who agrees to work for $5/hr, or the man who expects $20/hr and can't find a job?
LaTeX was fine - I was a little disappointed that after decades of popularity there was still not even the simplest wysiwyg apps for it.
Yeah - it's amazing that nobody has thought of writing one.
I have concerns with Red Flag Linux and the locally-developed Dragon CPU chip; the Chinese government might have access to back doors via software and/or hardware that could make tracking of Internet surfers even easier than many people think.
;)
On the hardware you may have a point; the Dragon CPU might well have a serial number a la Pentium III or some other such feature. But for the software, if the Chinese government wanted to put backdoors into Red Flag, I doubt they'd have gone with GPL software like Linux. They'd probably have forked FreeBSD and closed the source. Since they didn't, it's probably safe not to be too paranoid about Red Flag Linux.
Remember, not even oppressive totalitarian communist regimes spend 100% of their time working evil.
Additionally, [Solaris] has been implemented in 64 bit for many years.
So has Linux; it's been running on the Alpha architecture since the mid 1990s.
financial institutions need printers that actually strike paper with force to work with carbon copies, so dot-matrix is about as good as they can do.
But why do they need that? Why use carbon copying to make three copies of a form when you can just run off three copies on a laser printer?
Programs do the exact same thing on every run. Jumps are jumps, they can be followed.
If only it were that simple. Ever heard of a "computed goto"?
how to manage small teams, not work in the bizarre style
Please tell me you meant "bazaar"...
eclipse has some really cool stuff in it (refactoring!), but let's be serious... if all that work was put into netbeans/forte, it would be one hell of an IDE.
Linux has some really cool stuff in it, but let's be serious... if all that work was put into GNU/Hurd, it would be one hell of a kernel.
See the problem with that argument yet?
Chevy never sold a single car in Spain, as they were not exported to Europe -for the most part-, this was a Mexican market fiasco. They did have to change the Nova name for the mexican market.
However, the Nova name was used in the UK for a Vauxhall car. In mainland Europe, the same car was sold under the Opel marque as the Corsa. I'm not sure whether that's because of the Spanish problem or not though.
Amongst other proposals he suggested that a good way to reduce the cost of high energy physics research would be to do it in space where there is a lot of vaccum. He did not really take in my points that we can create vaccum on earth pretty easily, the residual gas in an accelerator are not a major problem (they cause few collisions), and the cost of putting a machine 20 miles across into space are greater than the planetary GDP.
Great. So you know more physics than him - bully for you. So, like, what does that little anecdote have to do with the GPL? I don't recall anyone claiming that RMS's views on physics are particularly knowledgable, interesting, or even important.
At least once a day, Slashdot screws up and I have to reload the page a few times to get it to display properly.
That's a problem with Slashdot, not Firebird. The pages Slashdot generates are not valid HTML. They work for the most part, but it'd be nice if someone got round to fixing that one day...
When is someone going to make a film of The Starlight Barking?
You know, the real sequel to 101 Dalmatians?
> The fact of the matter is you cannot use another company's trademarks to sell your product without their permission.
Yeah? Then how did Burger King get away with their "most people prefer Whoppers to Big Macs(r)" campaign? Do you think they got McDonalds' permission to say their burgers tasted nasty?
Umm, nope. The fact of the matter is that since they were using the "Big Mac" trademark to refer to the results of market research, they were stating a fact about the McDonald's product. Which is fine, even for a trademark.
Therefore, since it is a fact that Pixar made Finding Nemo, they could therefore use that name in their advertising. Since they would be stating a fact about Disney's product, there'd not be a thing Disney could do.
I think it's "bouncer" as in "burly doorkeeper", not as in "trampoline".
So you'd need a simpl draft coming up with a platform name Win32 for 32-bit windows
:p
-1, Redundant.
I don't see a problem with that. When I need to register something, I create a temporary email address; as soon as its purpose is served, I delete it. It's cleaner than trying to work with a throwaway Hotmail account, and I don't have to worry about proving my identity to Microsoft.
It's a weird situation, do they really want to be THAT effective to really stop viruses, or will they be like Chinese on piracy and put up a show.
...oh, you meant copyright infringement?
The Chinese have always been very tough on piracy. In fact, back in the sixteenth century there was such a problem with Japanese pirates in particular that it was illegal for a Japanese to set foot in China on pain of death. Even the RIAA hasn't started advocating the death penalty yet, despite several ships carrying CDs having been boarded, their cargo stolen and their crews murdered.
NVIDIA is a 3D hardware company - they make their money by selling cards to run the latest whizz-bang games.
The part of the Linux market that is growing fast is servers and, to a lesser extent, corporate desktops. This is not the part of the market that is interested in consumer 3D graphics.
NVIDIA could easily give up on Linux. The Linux gamer market is tiny, and it's not growing very fast. NVIDIA's shareholders would not give a damn.
You can't be doing it right. If you get it right, the program crashes.
I know what you're trying to say, but seriously, however tired I am - however stressed I am - even if I'm so out of it that I try to make myself a coffee and forget to boil the water first - I have NEVER for a moment failed to recognise a virus email the moment I saw it.
Oh, sure, companies should provide one one-day training course on virus recognition, to protect the truly ignorant.
But after that, anyone who still falls for them should be fired, because they shouldn't be in a job which involves reading emails. You wouldn't give an alcoholic a job driving ambulances, would you?
Yeah, but you have to compile that into the kernel yourself. Don't expect it to work on any random Linux system you find yourself using.
In this situation on the previous versions of NT, people would hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and then hit the Task Manager button so that they can kill their app. NT5.1 has removed an unnecessary step!
Yeah... except that the Win2k version at least gives you a privileged "Shut down" button which provides some way to escape from a program that's taking 100% CPU time.
What I don't understand is why starting the task manager in an emergency doesn't give the task manager any priority. Sure, it's "High" by default, but that doesn't make it load in less than five minutes when anything "Normal" or above is hogging cycles. They have this lovely screen you get to by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del that appears in an instant and suspends all other applications... and then when you click "Task manager", in order to close the flipping app that's basically hanging your computer, it goes back into Windows and carries on churning away!
Microsoft Visual Studio kicks the shit out of autoconf
Apples and oranges. The whole PURPOSE of autoconf is to compile code on multiple disparate platforms. If you're only writing for one platform, you'd be an idiot to use autoconf. And if you're using Visual Studio, you're only writing for one platform - by definition.
It's much easier to type ALT-ENTER to bring up my kbstart prompt and type "PS". The alternative would be to do Start: Programs: Adobe Photoshop 6.
Or just press the Windows key and type PA. Of course, you need to make sure you don't have any duplicate accelerators, but that's what & is for.
Or use the Address toolbar in your taskbar, and create suitably named shortcuts to call from it. (Click "address", type "ps", this opens the shortcut called "ps" that you have presumably placed somewhere in your path).
Why bother installing new tools when the standard interface already has equivalent functionality?
So, haikus have a
:p
fixed subject -- not nature? Then
it's a senryu.
To be hyper-pedantic, in Japanese "haiku" takes three beats, and "senryuu" takes four. So that's not even a senryuu.