Yeah - unlike perl, C, C++ or Java, where one brace will flatten it instead. Decent editor support makes this a non-issue (see emacs, editplus, probably vim and likely Scintilla).
At least the structure is clean enough that editors can parse it successfully, unlike perl in particular, where I have yet to see an editor that handles and font-locks all perl code including here-documents successfully.
For what it's worth Perl is my language of choice for most things that I don't need to distribute, but I did look beyond the indentation of Python.
I mean, I know I can't do anything with it but I've still effectively retired my low-four-digit-id account in large part because I've been conditioned to value karma and it bothers me at some level to see it get whittled away.
I don't if it's just me, but I've never been modded down, as far as I can think. I also have a fairly old (4-digit ID) account, I post relatively regularly, I try to only post when I've something to say, (or to derail discussion with nitpicking), but apart from the really obvious Petrified First Post on Natlie Portman's Hot Grits Meept! type posts, it seems fairly hard to lose karma, notwithstanding that it's not useful for anything at all.
Right - there are a bunch of similar resources that I would pay-per-view to see too.
Billboard used to have a (rather expensive) CDROM of all top 40 charts by week since the beginning of time, that I would probably pay for access to (no, really!). Ditto the OED, if it's the full monty OED.
Large bodies of interesting information don't have to be porn or research papers to fit this model...
It's really not that hard to find examples of information that are at least relatively hard to come by... whether this is the fault of search engines not finding them or the actual lack of content is hard to tell, but I regularly come across things you'd think would be easy to find on the web, but can't. Having a micro-payment based site doesn't make it any easier to find the stuff, unfortunately.
Just as a for-instance, I've just spent a fairly fruitless hour trying to find a simple TCP/IP server with source implemented as a Windows NT Service. Aside from Apache, which is a little big a quick read, I didn't come up with much at all.
For what it's worth, I am in favour of micropayments in the tip-jar analogy, but probably not in the mini-subscription sense. The only thing annoying me about Amazon's Honour System is that (a) they take 15% [or whatever fairly large amount it is] and (b) as a result Amazon of all people get 15% of my donation.
Not only was Mosaic not originally open-source (the source was available but that's all), but it wasn't where the web started out - the first browser/editor was for NextSTEP if I remember correctly - don't know if it was open source or not though. I've certainly never seen it anywhere.
Actually there was an MD-Data format at one time - storing something like 150Mb on a standard MD, but in the PC-attached players they managed to break the design enough for it to be annoying: you could read/write data, and you could play music, but you couldn't write music data from the pc. D'oh.
I know that - but that isn't what the error message says, which was what I was originally posting about. The original message implied (to me anyway) that it wouldn't install that package because of the package version (i.e. the software within it). It's a crappy error message.
You mean all those hacks like Miyamoto? Nearly all of the games I've played lately that made me think "wow, this is an interesting new idea" or that someone had to take brave step to make the game at all have been japanese: Sega Bass Fishing, Prop Cycle (one of my all-time favourites), Jet Grind Radio, 18 wheeler racing, and others. They are pretty imaginative things.
In their heyday in the early 80's Atari and Williams produced some pretty funky things, but from (say) 1987 onwards, the US contribution to arcade games is pretty average at best.
I think something you are missing is that japanese manufacturing also has a terrific attention to detail that is (in my experience) missing from american goods. I always felt that US-made products don't feel right compared to either japanese or european-made ones.
In gaming terms, it's the little details that make the difference. Good examples of this for me are the Super Taxi Driver PC game, which copies every element of Crazy Taxi yet somehow manages to be an unbelievably dull game, or the myriad Elite/Frontier derivatives that despite snazzier graphics and more 'stuff', don't feel as good or as engrossing as the original - attention to details.
X wasn't used on the NeXT because it wasn't stable *yet*.
Hmm.. when I tried OpenStep (1996) a little while ago on appropriate age hardware it (DPS) crashed left, right, and centre. The rest of the OS and environment was quite nice and interesting, but since it wouldn't run for more than 10 minutes without dying, I gave up on it - Terminal windows seemed to be the worst culprit for annoying the DPS process. That was the last release of OpenStep - I hope the first wasn't worse, although of course the hardware support is a lot easier when you make that too.
Do you know how furious they are that they can't just lower prices to force Open Source development out of business?
In pure financial terms, they can almost certainly afford to lower prices - their profits show that. From a legal standpoint - does some thing as nebulous as 'the open source movement' count as a competitor that they can't use monopoly-like leverage against?
IXI's X.Desktop was doing this in 1990, at least. They preferred you use mwm, which made the whole thing look right, but it wasn't required at all. XDesktop had an internal sh-like scripting language that allowed you to define new objects, and new behaviours for objects yourself, and distribute them to your users. Different classes of users got different views of the world, and different object behaviours (e.g. an Admin might get a 'lock account' action for People objects). From what I understand of it, this is a lot like OS/2 Workplace, although I've never used that. It was pretty cool.
They also made a funky virtual mwm, called Panorama.
IXI is now part of SCO, and I believe X.Desktop became part of SCO Open Desktop.
...which BSD (and Solaris and VMS yadda, yadda) solved a long time ago.
Not solaris - solaris (i.e SunOS 5+ - the great BSD->SVR4 switchover) is younger than Linux. At least I'm pretty sure I remember using Linux 0.99p12 at college while the techs were running a single test solaris machine.
Misdesign of the USPTO database means I can't follow your link; everyone will have to do their own search. Oh well, that they're idiots we knew.
I wonder if they have the appropriate license from OpenMarket to use storing-state-in-URL technology? That would be nicely ironic.
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And I mean North American - your average European bathroom is nowhere near as nice as an average US/Canadian bathroom. (Heh. How's that for flamebait?)
I'm British and sad as it is, one of the few things I really like about travelling to the US (*) is the bathrooms (in the english sense - shower & co included) - I wonder why they don't work the same way elsewhere? Is there some fundamental plumbing difference that stops it?
(* Arbys and western deserts (AZ,NV,NM) are some of the other things - I'm easily pleased)
It that case, I think the application was Autodesk Animator - his name also appears on some of the (once Autodesk, then Kinetix, now Discreet) 3DS Max plugins, IIRC (the atmospheric post plugins, I think).
If your 12-year old neighbour can afford a $300+ graphics card, then they are likely too busy defending their turf from the other playground crack dealers to be whopping your ass at Q3A.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot editors not reading even slashdot headlines? That can't be right, can it?
Err.. if I remember correctly, ChilliASP is implemented in Java, so you would have the overhead of the VMs. Or is that Halcyon InstantASP?
Do you mean Populous, one of Molyneaux's earlier 'God games'?
Yeah - unlike perl, C, C++ or Java, where one brace will flatten it instead. Decent editor support makes this a non-issue (see emacs, editplus, probably vim and likely Scintilla).
At least the structure is clean enough that editors can parse it successfully, unlike perl in particular, where I have yet to see an editor that handles and font-locks all perl code including here-documents successfully.
For what it's worth Perl is my language of choice for most things that I don't need to distribute, but I did look beyond the indentation of Python.
I mean, I know I can't do anything with it but I've still effectively retired my low-four-digit-id account in large part because I've been conditioned to value karma and it bothers me at some level to see it get whittled away.
I don't if it's just me, but I've never been modded down, as far as I can think. I also have a fairly old (4-digit ID) account, I post relatively regularly, I try to only post when I've something to say, (or to derail discussion with nitpicking), but apart from the really obvious Petrified First Post on Natlie Portman's Hot Grits Meept! type posts, it seems fairly hard to lose karma, notwithstanding that it's not useful for anything at all.
(man that was a long sentence)
Right - there are a bunch of similar resources that I would pay-per-view to see too.
Billboard used to have a (rather expensive) CDROM of all top 40 charts by week since the beginning of time, that I would probably pay for access to (no, really!). Ditto the OED, if it's the full monty OED.
Large bodies of interesting information don't have to be porn or research papers to fit this model...
It's really not that hard to find examples of information that are at least relatively hard to come by... whether this is the fault of search engines not finding them or the actual lack of content is hard to tell, but I regularly come across things you'd think would be easy to find on the web, but can't. Having a micro-payment based site doesn't make it any easier to find the stuff, unfortunately.
Just as a for-instance, I've just spent a fairly fruitless hour trying to find a simple TCP/IP server with source implemented as a Windows NT Service. Aside from Apache, which is a little big a quick read, I didn't come up with much at all.
For what it's worth, I am in favour of micropayments in the tip-jar analogy, but probably not in the mini-subscription sense. The only thing annoying me about Amazon's Honour System is that (a) they take 15% [or whatever fairly large amount it is] and (b) as a result Amazon of all people get 15% of my donation.
Not only was Mosaic not originally open-source (the source was available but that's all), but it wasn't where the web started out - the first browser/editor was for NextSTEP if I remember correctly - don't know if it was open source or not though. I've certainly never seen it anywhere.
Actually there was an MD-Data format at one time - storing something like 150Mb on a standard MD, but in the PC-attached players they managed to break the design enough for it to be annoying: you could read/write data, and you could play music, but you couldn't write music data from the pc. D'oh.
I know that - but that isn't what the error message says, which was what I was originally posting about. The original message implied (to me anyway) that it wouldn't install that package because of the package version (i.e. the software within it). It's a crappy error message.
Anyway - firmly off the beaten track now.
You mean all those hacks like Miyamoto? Nearly all of the games I've played lately that made me think "wow, this is an interesting new idea" or that someone had to take brave step to make the game at all have been japanese: Sega Bass Fishing, Prop Cycle (one of my all-time favourites), Jet Grind Radio, 18 wheeler racing, and others. They are pretty imaginative things.
In their heyday in the early 80's Atari and Williams produced some pretty funky things, but from (say) 1987 onwards, the US contribution to arcade games is pretty average at best.
I think something you are missing is that japanese manufacturing also has a terrific attention to detail that is (in my experience) missing from american goods. I always felt that US-made products don't feel right compared to either japanese or european-made ones.
In gaming terms, it's the little details that make the difference. Good examples of this for me are the Super Taxi Driver PC game, which copies every element of Crazy Taxi yet somehow manages to be an unbelievably dull game, or the myriad Elite/Frontier derivatives that despite snazzier graphics and more 'stuff', don't feel as good or as engrossing as the original - attention to details.
OK then - count along with me:
red-carpet-0.9-0_helix_1.i386.rpm
major (0)
minor (9)
patch (0_helix_1)
which part of 0 is greater than 3? Are we at cross-purposes here?
BTW. 500 Mb isn't even close to the actual size of my mp3 collection, I need something larger.
They're removable and cost ten bucks - buy two.
Damn thats an unclear error message then - surely it should read:
only packages with RPM file format version <= 3.x are supported by this version of RPM
or similar? I was looking at the error and thinking but it's 0.something! that's <= 3...
X wasn't used on the NeXT because it wasn't stable *yet*.
Hmm.. when I tried OpenStep (1996) a little while ago on appropriate age hardware it (DPS) crashed left, right, and centre. The rest of the OS and environment was quite nice and interesting, but since it wouldn't run for more than 10 minutes without dying, I gave up on it - Terminal windows seemed to be the worst culprit for annoying the DPS process. That was the last release of OpenStep - I hope the first wasn't worse, although of course the hardware support is a lot easier when you make that too.
...if people repeatedly got my name wrong. It's Berkley Breathed, isn't it?
is what I was about to post. But it appears that in fact it was the UK editions of the books that had his name wrong? Strange.
Do you know how furious they are that they can't just lower prices to force Open Source development out of business?
In pure financial terms, they can almost certainly afford to lower prices - their profits show that. From a legal standpoint - does some thing as nebulous as 'the open source movement' count as a competitor that they can't use monopoly-like leverage against?
IXI's X.Desktop was doing this in 1990, at least. They preferred you use mwm, which made the whole thing look right, but it wasn't required at all. XDesktop had an internal sh-like scripting language that allowed you to define new objects, and new behaviours for objects yourself, and distribute them to your users. Different classes of users got different views of the world, and different object behaviours (e.g. an Admin might get a 'lock account' action for People objects). From what I understand of it, this is a lot like OS/2 Workplace, although I've never used that. It was pretty cool.
They also made a funky virtual mwm, called Panorama.
IXI is now part of SCO, and I believe X.Desktop became part of SCO Open Desktop.
...which BSD (and Solaris and VMS yadda, yadda) solved a long time ago.
Not solaris - solaris (i.e SunOS 5+ - the great BSD->SVR4 switchover) is younger than Linux. At least I'm pretty sure I remember using Linux 0.99p12 at college while the techs were running a single test solaris machine.
Misdesign of the USPTO database means I can't follow your link; everyone will have to do their own search. Oh well, that they're idiots we knew.
I wonder if they have the appropriate license from OpenMarket to use storing-state-in-URL technology? That would be nicely ironic.
And I mean North American - your average European bathroom is nowhere near as nice as an average US/Canadian bathroom. (Heh. How's that for flamebait?)
I'm British and sad as it is, one of the few things I really like about travelling to the US (*) is the bathrooms (in the english sense - shower & co included) - I wonder why they don't work the same way elsewhere? Is there some fundamental plumbing difference that stops it?
(* Arbys and western deserts (AZ,NV,NM) are some of the other things - I'm easily pleased)
It that case, I think the application was Autodesk Animator - his name also appears on some of the (once Autodesk, then Kinetix, now Discreet) 3DS Max plugins, IIRC (the atmospheric post plugins, I think).
If your 12-year old neighbour can afford a $300+ graphics card, then they are likely too busy defending their turf from the other playground crack dealers to be whopping your ass at Q3A.
For some of us (ok, maybe just me) the smaller the better.
And for others, the quieter the better - which tends to go hand-in-hand with size and power requirements, infortunately. Damn I want a quiet PC.
(hmmm www.supercow.com is actually a dairy's website)