I think its ridiculous and utterly sexist. As a Man in computer science, I know for a fact that there's no such thing as a "guys only" scholarship because it discriminates against women. But there are plenty of women only scholarships available and no one would *dream* of calling those sexist.
I had plans to build one of those based on the motorola ColdFire micro, with 64 megs upgradable to 256, ethernet, serial, an LCD screen & a sound port. No one was interested. At least, no one was interested enough to help me design it.
I think the figure I came up with was about $250 US for the base model. I know I'd use one.
Seeing a banner ad for MS Office 2000 on the worlds biggest Linux advocacy sites, at the top of an article about the MS vs. DOJ case which speculates that MS is getting ready to lose.
Odd.
If Microsoft is willing to pay for slashdot banner time... at least it pays the bills.
Ah, but a real man is never insecure about the size of his... text editor. After all, its not how much disk space your editor takes up, its how well you can use it.
Sucks to your meta-alt-control-shift command set! I'll stick to my good old reliable escape key, and set worlds afire with vi, the rough-and-ready text editor. Real men don't need all those user-friendly fluff menus and real men certainly don't need four modifier keys to type in a command.
Oh, and real men never, ever, ever program in LISP.
Forth is a tiny language. I mean, really tiny. We're talking 16K for an interactive interpreter/compiler here. Yeah. 16K. And it beats the everloving stuffins out of programming in assembly.
Hey, Postscript is based on Forth. It can't be that bad.
That emacs command you're thinking of is M-x spook. That's about the only emacs command I bothered to learn.
After all, real men use vi, the superior and ubiquitous editor. So, take your silly emacs, you silly emacs user, roll it up real thin, put it in your pipe and smoke it. Oh wait, I forgot. Emacs is so freakin' big there's no way it could fit in any normal pipe.
As I recall, the folks at Apple chose Macintosh because it's a particular variety of the apple (fruit). Specifically, a great little pie apple with the color of a Roman and a sour taste like the Granny Smith.
Were it the raincoat, I imagine it would have been called the Mackintosh (with a k), like the raincoat.
I've been using Mozilla M6 for a few weeks now, and it has very similar quality to Netscape except it doesn't crash as often and takes up 10 megs of RAM instead of the 24 that the latest Netscape monstrosity consumes.
Oh, and M doesn't have anywhere near the memory leaking capacaity of N. I like it. The UI code has a ways to go, though. Now, if only I could put that rendering engine in the simple and beautiful UI of arena....
I would gladly shell out $7 for a Rob Malda/Commander Taco action figure. (with new coding action!) And heck, I'd probably buy a Katz action figure, because what good is a hero without a villian? (heh.. just to the rest of the world, Jon.)
And there definately needs to be a talking anonymous coward figure. You push the button and it either
A) shouts "First Post!",
B) tries to incite a flamewar regarding GNOME/KDE or
C) takes the world by surprise and says something useful.
But the sheets, I'm not sure about. I see/. often enough while I'm awake. The last thing I need is my slashdot addiction trying to get at me when I'm asleep.
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The video hardware in your computer is highly optimized for doing video things. Stuff like matrix transforms and rasterisation can be made very fast in silicon, but bog down a lot in software. So, SGI has implemented chips for this specific purpose. Typically, the way these very fast bits are accessed is through the OpenGL library, which provides a convenient way for 3d programmers to, well, program 3d apps.
Unfortunately, because the hardware is so highly optimized for making pretty pictures, it is pretty much useless for doing other things, like cracking encryption.
Theoretically, it is possible. Most 3d hardware needs to have things like add, multiply, etc in order to do the other stuff. But depending on the implementation of the hardware, it could be very difficult to access these parts, and even the access itself would probably be enough to slow things down quite a bit. It's akin to asking your sound card to act like a modem. While this is possible (see soundmodem drivers for linux kernel) it's not necessarily what the hardware is good at. (soundmodem driver is limited to 9600 baud max, using X.25 packet protocol, half duplex.)
It would require a massive code effort to warp the rc5 client around to use the OpenGL library for things the OpenGL library was never meant to do, and it probably wouldn't be much of a win anyway due to the odd manipulations you would have to go through to make a task-specific processor do things that its not specific to doing.
Yup. There's a physics major all right. The surest sign of a physics major is using TeX. Almost every other tech field has found some other way to express their complex equations, but in physics the equations are so unbearably complex you need to use TeX to sort it all out.
The bit about "correspondence to description" bothers me more. Essentially, this says that despite the fact that all the packaging tells you it's a "Server operating system", the innards of the package could be a blank CD, a handful of pebbles, air, vaccum cleaner bags, used tissues, or just about anything else, because according to the EULA, they don't have to make the contents match the packaging.
Since the EULA is a contract, you have no recourse against false advertising; you as the user have accepted that whatever happens to be inside is what you've paid for.
And sometimes, I get quiet enjoyment out of sitting back and laughing at the plight the software industry is suffering because the product doesn't necessarily do what the packaging says it will.
Ah. Here's the legal-speak I was looking for (with editing for brevity):
MICROSOFT AND ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY (IF ANY) WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF OR RELATED TO: TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, LACK OF VIRUSES, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF RESPONSES, RESULTS, LACK OF NEGLIGENCE OR LACK OF WORKMANLIKE EFFORT, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, AND CORRESPONDENCE TO DESCRIPTION. THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE AND ANY SUPPORT SERVICES REMAINS WITH YOU....IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR: LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF CONFIDENTIAL OR OTHER INFORMATION, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, PERSONAL INJURY, LOSS OF PRIVACY, FAILURE TO MEET ANY DUTY (INCLUDING OF GOOD FAITH OR OF REASONABLE CARE), NEGLIGENCE, AND ANY OTHER PECUNIARY OR OTHER LOSS WHATSOEVER)....
If IIS goes belly up and you lose 10,000 pieces of e-mail because of it, or if NT causes your battleship to be dead in the water for 3 hours, there's still no one to sue. Your EULA, the one you implicitly accepted by opening the package and installing the software, disclaims Microsoft, Inc. from any and all damages caused by the use of their software.
And anyone who has had the delusion of sueing Microsoft need only look as far as the EULA to see just how impractical it is.
The aforementioned Debian box was used as a router, managing 2 data-over-voice modems at 19.2K each, serial load balancing them, and routing ethernet packets from a network of 10 clients out over the two modems.
We even used it to compile a kernel once. Okay, so that was a mistake. It took 9 hours to compile, and the fellow who did it forgot to include fp emulation.
When we took it down for the last time, it had over 60 days of uptime, working constantly the whole time.
Later on, the box became reincarnated as a low-demand web and mailing list server. It had a 45 day uptime when the person who was hiding it in his office to provide bandwidth got fired and had to turn it off.
I'd like to see you even try to do that with your 50k command.com.
Last time I checked, xanim had support for mpg movies. Kindof. Look at http://smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu/xanim/home.html It's also got a lot of avi decompression codecs available.
According to the web page, it currently supports only type 1 frames, with no audio. But Mark Podlipec (the author) could always use help in making it work better.
I've found that if you want uber-high quaity and very fast cd ripping, using a DVD drive is the way to go. I use cdparanoia with mine, and it rips in 1/3rd the time of my 24x generic brand IDE cdrom. I think it has a lot to do with the narrower laser and better fine-grain control over the positioning.
I once did a minimal install of Debian on a 386 with 4 megs of ram and 40 megs of hard disk. After the base install was complete, I went in and pared out things like NFS and ae (simple editor) that were installed but I didn't need, and got the system down to about 20 megs on disk.
Redhat is really easy to install, but they've sacrificed configurability to get there. Debian has many more options, but still manages to have a reasonably easy install. Just because it has 1500 packages available doesn't mean you need to install all/any of them.
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Where are the equal rights when you need them?
I think the figure I came up with was about $250 US for the base model. I know I'd use one.
Seeing a banner ad for MS Office 2000 on the worlds biggest Linux advocacy sites, at the top of an article about the MS vs. DOJ case which speculates that MS is getting ready to lose.
Odd.
If Microsoft is willing to pay for slashdot banner time... at least it pays the bills.
Sucks to your meta-alt-control-shift command set! I'll stick to my good old reliable escape key, and set worlds afire with vi, the rough-and-ready text editor. Real men don't need all those user-friendly fluff menus and real men certainly don't need four modifier keys to type in a command.
Oh, and real men never, ever, ever program in LISP.
Go Boilers!
Hey, Postscript is based on Forth. It can't be that bad.
After all, real men use vi, the superior and ubiquitous editor. So, take your silly emacs, you silly emacs user, roll it up real thin, put it in your pipe and smoke it. Oh wait, I forgot. Emacs is so freakin' big there's no way it could fit in any normal pipe.
And need I say, Go boilers!!
ummm... McCarthy?
Were it the raincoat, I imagine it would have been called the Mackintosh (with a k), like the raincoat.
Oh, and M doesn't have anywhere near the memory leaking capacaity of N. I like it. The UI code has a ways to go, though. Now, if only I could put that rendering engine in the simple and beautiful UI of arena....
You certainly won't last long aganist our attacks, my friend.
Go boilers!
And there definately needs to be a talking anonymous coward figure. You push the button and it either
- A) shouts "First Post!",
- B) tries to incite a flamewar regarding GNOME/KDE or
- C) takes the world by surprise and says something useful.
But the sheets, I'm not sure about. I seeUnfortunately, because the hardware is so highly optimized for making pretty pictures, it is pretty much useless for doing other things, like cracking encryption.
Theoretically, it is possible. Most 3d hardware needs to have things like add, multiply, etc in order to do the other stuff. But depending on the implementation of the hardware, it could be very difficult to access these parts, and even the access itself would probably be enough to slow things down quite a bit. It's akin to asking your sound card to act like a modem. While this is possible (see soundmodem drivers for linux kernel) it's not necessarily what the hardware is good at. (soundmodem driver is limited to 9600 baud max, using X.25 packet protocol, half duplex.)
It would require a massive code effort to warp the rc5 client around to use the OpenGL library for things the OpenGL library was never meant to do, and it probably wouldn't be much of a win anyway due to the odd manipulations you would have to go through to make a task-specific processor do things that its not specific to doing.
Oh. Right. You mean "potato chip bags." Heh. I forgot they say things weird on the other side of the big pond.
Since the EULA is a contract, you have no recourse against false advertising; you as the user have accepted that whatever happens to be inside is what you've paid for.
And sometimes, I get quiet enjoyment out of sitting back and laughing at the plight the software industry is suffering because the product doesn't necessarily do what the packaging says it will.
MICROSOFT AND ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY (IF ANY) WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF OR RELATED TO: TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, LACK OF VIRUSES, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF RESPONSES, RESULTS, LACK OF NEGLIGENCE OR LACK OF WORKMANLIKE EFFORT, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, AND CORRESPONDENCE TO DESCRIPTION. THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE AND ANY SUPPORT SERVICES REMAINS WITH YOU. ...IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR: LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF CONFIDENTIAL OR OTHER INFORMATION, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, PERSONAL INJURY, LOSS OF PRIVACY, FAILURE TO MEET ANY DUTY (INCLUDING OF GOOD FAITH OR OF REASONABLE CARE), NEGLIGENCE, AND ANY OTHER PECUNIARY OR OTHER LOSS WHATSOEVER)....
blah blah blah. Blood from a turnip.
If IIS goes belly up and you lose 10,000 pieces of e-mail because of it, or if NT causes your battleship to be dead in the water for 3 hours, there's still no one to sue. Your EULA, the one you implicitly accepted by opening the package and installing the software, disclaims Microsoft, Inc. from any and all damages caused by the use of their software.
And anyone who has had the delusion of sueing Microsoft need only look as far as the EULA to see just how impractical it is.
We even used it to compile a kernel once. Okay, so that was a mistake. It took 9 hours to compile, and the fellow who did it forgot to include fp emulation.
When we took it down for the last time, it had over 60 days of uptime, working constantly the whole time.
Later on, the box became reincarnated as a low-demand web and mailing list server. It had a 45 day uptime when the person who was hiding it in his office to provide bandwidth got fired and had to turn it off.
I'd like to see you even try to do that with your 50k command.com.
According to the web page, it currently supports only type 1 frames, with no audio. But Mark Podlipec (the author) could always use help in making it work better.
But for whatever reason, it works great!
Redhat is really easy to install, but they've sacrificed configurability to get there. Debian has many more options, but still manages to have a reasonably easy install. Just because it has 1500 packages available doesn't mean you need to install all/any of them.
Yay, Debian!